Reply 20 of 24, by elianda
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Regarding drivers and Windows 10 I had the following experiences:
With a common Gigabyte GA-H77-D3H mainboard that uses the VIA VT2021 codec the Line-In does not work with Windows 10 anymore. The behavior is that the driver does not detect any more if a device is plugged and from software side the input stays 'disabled'.
Windows 10 also pops up a Yes/No dialog for each Audio Playback device connected to the VIA driver that 'Audio Enhancement features may cause problems' whenever one opens the Playback Devices list.
This is the reference driver that comes with Windows 10.
Some research showed that I am not the only one with this problem and some recommend to install an older VIA driver that was distributed with the first Win8. Forcing this driver to install (as it is older) leads to a working Line-In once, however after some time it mutes again and changes to 'disabled'. On next Win10 restart it installs the newer Win10 reference driver again and is back in broken state.
The whole issue is not hardware related as everything VIA Audio works in Win7/WinXP.
With some multifunction USB devices I noticed that Windows 10 brings some default drivers that have no direct use with any program. In such cases it would be better to ask directly for some vendor specific driver. This happens e.g. with KryoFlux where Win10 installs by default some own driver that is not related to the actual hardware. A more annoying side effect is that replacing the Win10 driver with the KryoFlux driver applies permanently to the current USB port only. If one uses another USB port the next time the whole procedure has to be repeated.
Some versions of the latest NVIDIA graphics driver seem to have no HDMI audio device in Win10.
From my personal impression Win10 shows more driver quirks than Win7.
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