Windows 10: Audio Volume Too Loud for System Sound ONLY after installing old versions of audio card driver

I accidentally installed older versions of audio driver: aud_win10_64_6.0.8716.1 and it requires 2 times of reboot.After reboot, the system volume goes very loud that I can only use it at 10%. While I'm playing music or watching videos, the sound is missing high frequencies. However it's not missing sound quality for system sound. And with headphone both the volume and the quality are normal. This is a new laptop bought 3 months ago, very unlikely to be hardware problems.Here's my laptop and system:ROG Strix SCAR 17 2022 G733Win 11Here's what I tried and didn't work:RebootUpdate and uninstal

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Loud Audio Until Volume is Adjusted (Realtek Audio Driver)

Hi Michael,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand the inconvenience caused. I will be glad to assist you with this.

Thank you for mentioning the steps you have tried to resolve the issue. We appreciate your effort.

To better assist you, do let us know the make and model of the computer.

I would suggest you to try using the generic audio driver that comes with Windows.

Here's how: in Device Manager, right-click (or tap and hold) your audio driver >
Update driver software... > Browse my computer for driver software
> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, select
High Definition Audio Device, select Next, and follow the instructions to install it.

Also, try turning off the audio enhancement by following the steps below:

• 
  Go to Start, enter Sound, and select Sound Control Panel
  from the list of results.
  
• 
  On the Playback tab, right-click (or tap and hold) the Default Device
  and select Properties.
  
• 
  On the Enhancements tab, select the Disable all enhancements
  check box and try to play your audio device.
  
• 
  If that doesn't work, select Cancel and, on the Playback
  tab, select another default device (if you have one), select the Disable all enhancements check box, and try to play audio again. Do this for each default device.
  

Let us know the result.

 

Realtek audio too loud

I was wondering seeing as there are some with driver modding skills around here could tell me if it's possible to change the seemingly hard-coded volume level in Realtek drivers.

I have a Gigabyte board with an ALC1150 and no matter which driver I try the audio volume is so loud I have to turn Windows global volume to 10% otherwise it hurts my ears (I'm using headphones).

I'm not an expert but it's like Realtek are over amplifying the stereo output ?, I've tried enabling the loudness equalization in Realtek control panel & this only partially fixes it for music or Youtube but system audio sounds are still often ear piercingly loud. If I change the audio output to the GPU and plug headphones into monitor it works largely okay volume is around 70-80% level and comfortable though it doesn't sound as good.

Anyone any ideas on this ?

Thanks.

[My backup plan is to get a spdif/optical to analogue DAC, and use the optical out on the Realtek and see if that is any better or look at a sound card]

 

Audio Sound Card

Suddenly lost all sound. When I turned on computer today, I get a message that it can't find 'Conexant SmartAudio HD' I don't know what happened or how to get it back.

System information Audio lists as follows:

Sound Card - Conexant Smart Audio HD

Driver Provider Conexant

Driver Version 8.54.40,8-2-2012

Driver C:\windows\system32\drivers\chdrt64.sys

Any idea what I have to do to get my sound back? Running windows 10.