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Realtek HD Audio Driver Revision History – Windows 8.1 x86 – x64 and Windows 10 x86 – x64

Realtek HD Audio Driver Revision History – Windows 8.1 x86/x64 and Windows 10 x86/x64


6.0.9629.1 – 09/01/2024
6.0.9618.1 – 12/12/2023
6.0.9514.1 – 
6.0.9492.1 – 14/03/2023
6.0.9452.1
6.0.9363.1 – 07/06/2022
6.0.9279.1
6.0.9210.1
6.0.9180.1 – 01/06/2021
6.0.8720.1 –
6.0.1.8703.1 –
6.0.1.8668 – 28/03/2019
6.0.1.8531 –
6.0.1.8522 –
6.0.1.8480 –
6.0.1.8470 – 19/06/2018
6.0.1.8454 –
6.0.1.8447 –
6.0.1.8425 – 17/04/2018
6.0.1.8363 – 30/01/2018
6.0.1.8302 – 14/11/2017
R2.82 – 6.0.1.8186 –
R2.81 – 6.0.1.8036 –
R2.80 – 6.0.1.8004 –
????? – 6.0.1.7910 – 16/08/2016
????? – 6.0.1.7548 – 30/06/2015
R2.79 – 6.0.1.7541 –
R2.78 – 6.0.1.7512 –
R2.77 – 6.0.1.7503 –

Troubleshoot a Blue Screen of Death BSOD or Crash Dump on a Microsoft Windows Operating System

It’s probably the thing we all dread most, evereything has been working great for weeks/months/years and then suddenly your machine starts randomly crashing to a Blue Screen of Death or BSOD

All is not lost though as Windows will often generate its own crash dump a report of what happened to cause the crash, this is often invaluable when it comes to finding the cause and fixing it.

A company called Nirsoft offer a great little utility called Blue Screen View, you can download it from here ttp://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

This program will automatically analyse the default Mini Dump and Crash Dump locations and then pull back a summary of the driver or system file that was most likley the cause of your crash.  In many cases it’s then just a simple case of removing the offending software, updating/downgrading the device driver or installing a software patch/hotfix.

Microsoft Windows based Computers and Laptops – Slow System Startup with Realtek HD Audio Chipset

You may find that Windows based computers and laptops are very slow to startup and in some instances slow to shutdown.  This has been witnessed when out dated drivers are installed for the integrted Realtek HD Audio Chipset.

The Realtek HD Audio drivers offered on Microsoft Update are often dated 2005 and are many years behind those available directly from the Audio Chipset manufacturer.

You can verify your current Audio Chipset and Driver version from “Device Manager”

Please visit http://www.realtek.com/downloads/ to find and download the latest applicable drivers for your Windows system.  They will usually reference the drivers as “High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)” and then under Windows the list Operating System Compatability for each system and provide several download links based upon locations around the world.  Downloads from the Realtek site can be slow at busy times of the day so you may need to be patient and/or download outside peak hours.

As you can see from the table the current drivers from Realtek Support are dated 21st October 2011 and are usually updated every 1-2 months, it would be worth updating to the latest release to resolve your slow startup times and then add updating your audio drivers into your usual computer maintenance schedule.  Once you have updated remember to check Device Manager to ensure that the latest drivers are actually installed and that the device is operating correctly.