

So I remove this driver and reverted to the one from the Gigabyte site and now in Task Manager > Startup I'm only seeing Realtek HD Audio Universal Service. Also I was getting an error message on boot. After the system rebooted I was seeing the Audio Manager in Task Manager > Sartup, however I was not able to launch it - with admin rights and compatibility. I disconnected the PC from the Internet and removed the driver from Device Manager, restarted the PC and installed the ALC codec. I navigated to your website and from Menu > Downloads > Peripherals I was that there is no SW for ALC1220, so I downloaded one on random to see if it will work. I downloaded the audio driver from the Gigabyte site and the driver itself works just fine, however no Audio Manager is installed. But most interesting of all, YouTube videos play just fine! - I can't help but suspect that someone at Realtek has dropped the ball and the community is having to pick it up.I just completed a B450 AORUS PRO build, which incorporates the ALC1220-VB codec, however under fresh install of windows I'm not able to start the Realtek Audio Manager HD. It's interesting that we're both running Gigabyte boards with the latest Realtek audio drivers (although mine are 6.), our Realtek audio managers confirm that the speaker setups are good but our apps, games and videos dispute this.

There's a number of factors regarding your audio issues that are similar to my own (SEE thread: ). Now here comes the weird part if I play a video on YouTube however it plays as 5.1?!? I've tried everything I can think of such as disabling the other Audio drivers such as the HD and the AMD one which is also installed, making sure that my speakers are the default audio device. The Realtek HD Audio Manager detects all 5 speakers but all my applications refuse to play 5.1 and instead play at 2.1 instead. Problem : Audio only plays out of two front speakers and subwoofer nothing from center and two rear speakers. If not set to 5.1 should work fine after that. So the actual speaker config setup in windows playback devices can be the cause.Ī example is in the realtek app 5.1 may be selected.īut by clicking on windows sound manager or playback.Īnd by right clicking on default device, in the setup speaker options and config it is set to 2.1 sound and not configured and set to 5.1 setup as well. Realtek is still routed through windows sound manager even if it is a different app. That in the playback devices of windows sound manager the speaker setup is also set to a 5.1 speaker config.

In any case, just have a check that by right clicking on your default sound device the 5.1 speakers are connected to. It would not make sense to make an app with 5.1 surround out put because all the others due to movement in a game ect or film/video may use 5.1 surround.įor example Audio or music is not always encoded to play at 5.1. Well depending on the code 2.1 or 5.1 sound output.
