After updating my Windows11 Home version to 22H2 build 22621.608 I am getting poor System Sound volume on my Aspire5 a515-54G, Music sound is very good (50% volume sounds great with the new Windows Media Player, streaming/video sound OK but with 75% volume) so I would like to update my drivers only to get much louder System Sounds (System Sound volume is set at 100%). My present RTK Audio driver (probably a Windows update) is dated 24/12/2019, 6.0.8865.1 (attached)
When checking the audio driver for my system and OS on the Acer Support website I see: Audio_Realtek_6.0.8865.1_W11x64 2021/10/20 which I downloaded, but all the Cabinet folders in the driver bundle are dated much older: 5/07/2019, July 5, 2019 (using Explorer)?
If I double click on Setup_Driver.cmd in one of the downloaded Acer driver folders I get attached message (Goto Windows store)!
My main present (working) RTK driver is RTKVHD64.sys 6.0.8865.1 (built by WinDDK, Windows Display Driver Kit??)
The Win64 folder from the downloaded Acer RTK driver set contains this same RTKVHD64.sys driver dated 26/12/2019 but that folder has no install.cmd or any setup.exe file. When I point W11 Device manager to this Acer driver set (Add driver) it states "No drivers"
When browsing the downloaded RTK driver package from Acer is see in the Realtek folder the folowing subfolders: extRTK,...APO, ...HSA, ..., RTKService_229 and RealtekSstPpDll_24, no idea what these folders are.
Since my sound system is jointly controled by MS(WDDK), Intel(Display sound) and RTK speaker drivers and my audio card is the very basic ALC255 chipset I wonder if I have reached the limit of my sound system and should completely forget about updating it before breaking things even more?
Comments welcome
