Realtek UAD Driver

Overview of Realtek UAD Driver (Realtek All-in-One Audio Driver)

Realtek UAD Driver is an unofficial package of generic Realtek Universal Audio Driver made from parts of various OEM specific Reatek Universal Audio drivers intended to work on legacy systems lacking OEM UAD support.

This Realtek UAD driver mod should install and function properly on all systems supporting Realtek Legacy HDA FF00 drivers that don't rely on any special audio enhancements. If used with devices relying on special audio enhancements functionality and feature set available may be limited.

Note: Before installing Realtek UAD Driver, you have to completely remove other Realtek HD Audio drivers regardless of being in classic HDA or UAD format because Windows favors hardware-specific drivers with better hardware ID matching even if older than generic ones.

How this package is built:

• Download and extract previously created package (latest release);
• Search on Microsoft Update Catalog for latest codec component containing HDXRT.inf, HDXRTSST.inf, hdxrtu.cat, RTKVHD64.sysand RTAIODAT.DAT;
• Extract these files from cabinet archive replacing their old copies from Realtek-UAD-generic\Win64 if RTKVHD64.sys file version is higher;
• Search on forums like MDL, Station-Drivers, Tenforums, laptopvideo2go, etc. for OEM specific Realtek UAD packages containing RTKVHD64.sys with file version higher than that of Realtek-UAD-generic\Win64\Realtek\UpdatedCodec\RTKVHD64.sys;
• Replace RTKVHD64.sysand RTAIODAT.DAT from Realtek-UAD-generic\Win64\Realtek\UpdatedCodec with their copies from OEM specific Realtek UAD package;
• Do the same for RealtekAPO_*, RealtekHSA_*, RealtekService_* from Realtek-UAD-generic\Win64\Realtek.