RealTek Audio drivers after Windows 11 update

Anonymous
2024-12-14T00:50:36+00:00

RealTek Audio drivers after Windows 11 update...

I can't play music. What do I do?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T08:12:43+00:00

    Yesterday, Windows launched a optional security update, that you can find in the MS update catalog, that supposedly would fix these bugs, I believe that can help some of you, it's KB5050094, bc I saw some feedback that it was its purpose.

    However, I installed it , and I still have the same problem with the audio drivers, did this happen to any of you too?

    I'm tired of trying to solve an issue that shouldn't be there since the beginning

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T08:44:08+00:00

    Yes, it happened to me too: This update has not fixed my audio problems at all.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T11:46:02+00:00

    Hello Sophie Delsordo

    thanks for your Feedback.

    I updatet the following Drivers:

    -Intel(R) Smart Sound Technologie-Audiocontroller

    -Realtek USB Audio

    and monitored for a while

    Run all optional updates

    Today, no more BSOD/no more errors have occurred since then.

    I'm not sure what really helped - no matter :-)

    Thanks a lot

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T16:44:31+00:00

    Similar problems are happening with Windows Insider builds as well. I run Canary builds on my system and have had audio and Bluetooth problems as of the last three releases. I've posted about this in the Feedback Hub, which seems to be all but useless, as well as in the Insider threads on Bluesky and have yet to receive any response. My only solution to the audio problem that continues to work is what I posted earlier, which is to uninstall my Realtek audio device along with the driver and then to do a search for new hardware upon which my audio device is reinstalled and starts working again. At least it works until I reboot whereupon the problematic driver is installed again which causes me to do it all over again. As a result, I fix the problem and do not reboot unless absolutely necessary, and I leave my desktop running 24/7. Hopefully someone at Microsoft takes notice and corrects this problem, but I will not hold my breath for that to happen. Like similar bugs in the past, I expect this to simply be corrected down the line with no notice given or responsibility for the problem taken.

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