Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek High Definition Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_17AA36C3; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.6353 released on 2011-04-19 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 15652632 bytes (14.93 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.3 stars out of 6341 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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