If you also wish to cater for those unknown models in your environment and provide a basic list of generic drivers to attempt a match on, there is also the ability to create a Driver Fallback Package.
This is important when it comes to combining the use of this tool with our Modern Driver & BIOS Management solutions ( see our solutions section). Custom and fallback packagesįor those manufacturers who do not provide direct model XML feeds, you can also use the tool to create custom driver packages based on the same naming schema.
Clicking on the Add to Import List adds each of these models for processing and once you click on the Start Download and Import Process button the tool starts the full process to automatically download and package the content. When you click on the Find Models button, the tool initiates a download of XML content from the selected manufacturer, reads in the XML and displays a full list of models for selection. When the tool is opened, you have the option to select your manufacturer and OS of choice. The intuitive GUI provides you with a full list of models from the supported manufacturer, allowing you to select one or many models, it also will detect Dell and Lenovo models matched against the WMI models known to ConfigMgr. I can now create songs and beats on my laptop without an external USB audio interface.The Driver Automation Tool is a GUI developed in PowerShell which provides full automation of BIOS and driver downloads, extraction, packaging and distribution with Dell, HP, Lenovo & Microsoft client hardware. Apart from that everything is working awesome. When I unplug headphones during ASIO playback, the audio app may even crash. If I plug headphones, the app will continue to use the laptop speaker. The only issue I have experienced: When an app is using the ASIO hardware, I cannot plug/unplug headphones. The reason is probably that those generic ASIO drivers do not really connect to the hardware, they just create even one more layer in order to simulate an ASIO device which is actually running with a normal windows audio driver. Before the ASIO drivers I could hardly play or record a few simple audio tracks. With a proper buffer setting I can now playback complex audio sessions in Cubase Pro and FL Studio with many synths and effect plugins. I have less latency and CPU load went down to normal. In my case the official Realtek ASIO driver from the DELL driver pack really boosted my audio performance. The advantage of using the official Realtek ASIO driver Next time you start up your audio or video app you will find a new ASIO driver in the audio hardware settings.
How to download & install Realtek ASIO drivers:Īttention: Before installing I recommend to make a full backup of your computer system. So you can think of the ASIO component as kind of an driver add-on, that can be used with multiple Realtek audio devices. Of course I had some doubts in the first place but turned out the ASIO driver also works like a charm on my HP and on other computers such as ASUS etc. Sidenote: ASIO is a professional audio standard (similar to Apple Core Audio) and enables media software to have direct access to the audio hardware.Īfter a lot more research I finally found an dedicated ASIO driver for Realtek in a driver pack for DELL laptops. None of them really improved the audio performance of my system. ? Then of course I tried generic ASIO drivers such as ASIO4ALL and the FL Studio ASIO driver. Since it wasn’t really handy to always use an USB audio, I started to try a few things: At first I contacted Realtek and HP if they can provide an official ASIO driver but turned out that support staff did not even understand what an ASIO driver is. So it was pretty obvious: The problem was caused by my integrated Realtek HD audio device, which didn’t have a native ASIO driver. Whenever I used an USB audio interface with ASIO support, the performance was like 10x better. Since I got my HP ProBook I was pretty happy except for one problem: Multimedia apps such as Premiere Pro, FL Studio, Cubase or Studio One always had serious performance problems (high latency, CPU spikes and dropouts).
ASIO is usually available for professional studio hardware only, but also for Realtek integrated sound devices aka. For music production and video editing an ASIO driver can boost your system’s performance.