I've had my G73jh for a little over a year now, but I've never gotten to updating my microphone/webcam drivers as I haven't needed them until now, and I'm not really sure which ones to use.
Video from my webcam is incredibly low quality, and horribly out of sync with the audio. (Tested in LifeFrame.) I've heard having the wrong drivers for your make of webcam can cause this.
I'm also not sure what to do for audio drivers. I had to uninstall everything related to Creative because it causes Steam issues, but my sound quality sounds kind of bad at the moment, and I know my subwoofer doesn't work. I'm not sure if my Realtek drivers are out of date or not. I don't even know how to check.
Any help with all this would be greatly appreciated.
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You can get the audio codec driver directly from Realtek (get the " Vista, Windows7 Driver (32/64bits) Driver only" and " ATI HDMI Audio Device" packages). The newer driver fixes the Creative/Steam lock-up issue (been fixed since last June I think).
The original Creative software works fine for me even though I don't use any of its effects except sometimes the equalizer.
For the camera, what's the camera vendor/product ID for the device (you can find this in device manager)? -
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Thanks for the reply. Turns out I do have the right drivers for my camera, but my mic still sounds like I'm underwater, and I'm not really sure why. I've tried tweaking it in Realtek, and I can reduce it, but it never really sounds clear.
Once I get Realtek up to date and install Creative, will that get the subwoofer working? -
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Um, I installed the drivers you linked me to (except for Creative) and now the sound is ONLY coming from my subwoofer...
EDIT: Nevermind. Something went wrong during installation, and I just had to reinstall the first driver. Now on to Creative!
EDIT2: The correct Creative driver is the one on Asus' site, right? Audigy? -
*edit* Oops never mind - you got it -
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Hm. I'm getting "Setup is unable to detect a supported product on your system."
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if not then you have a big problem installing it -
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It should be noted that my subwoofer is working now. I didn't have the ATI driver installed. However, I wouldn't mind having the Base Boost and customizability that comes with Creative. -
you don't need to think but try what we talk
the easy and right way:
install latest realtek 2.60
install creative audigy (if it didn't recognise it then reinstall realtek)
if that didn't worked then what you need to do is repeat the same procedure but with the stock realtek driver which is on your disk
i didn't had any problems installing the creative audigy 1.0
but i couldn't install creative X-fi neither way -
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Like I said, I don't have a driver disk.
So let me get this straight:
From Realtek's site:
-Install: Vista, Windows7 Driver (32/64bits) Driver only (Executable file) R2.60
-Install: ATI HDMI Audio Device R2.55
From Asus' site:
-Install Creative Audigy 1.0
That right?
Ahh! When trying to reinstall ATI HDMI Audio Device R2.55 I get a driver failure error message and the setup crashes...
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Everyone should have that disk! Using it after a fresh OS install ALWAYS works, and it's the baseline OEM drivers that also work. Individual drivers can easily be updated after that.
The Creative from that disk should work. I don't believe the downloadable one is the same, and if it is, then the driver disk does some install magic. -
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Oh God, 90 kb/s...
I'm not really sure what to do with this. Am I going to have to burn it onto a CD? Will this overwrite all my drivers?
EDIT: Okay, that download is much too slow. I don't have time to wait 8 hours at the moment, I'm afraid. Is there another place I can download this? -
I'm assuming it's an ISO disk image. You could burn a disk if you want to. I just mount ISOs as a logical drive and run the setup from there. There's lots of free ISO mounting software - I use PowerISO.
No it won't overwrite your drivers. Just run InstAll.exe on the disk. You'll get a list of installer packages. Click the "Advanced" button to see the entire list. Un-check all the packages except for "Audio" and "Creative" (if they're marked as already installed then you should have uninstalled them first). Then click the "Start" button. Follow the instructions from there... -
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Sorry to keep asking questions.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/471923-asus-g73jh-driver-package-download-clean-install.html
Would the files included here work? MUCH faster download speed.
And seeing as how I get the error message, the only way I can see to uninstall these drivers is through Device Manager directly. Is this what you mean? -
You could try though!
For uninstalling, that can be done in Control Panel/Programs and Features or from device manager AFAIK....I see them in both places. -
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I'm so confused. It seems I had a problem during installation of the HDMI sound driver. I redownloaded it and reinstalled, and it installed correctly the second time. So now my Device Manager looks like this: http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/Audigy3.png
However, Creative still isn't detecting any compatible hardware on my system. http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/Audigy1.png
That was downloaded from Asus' site: http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/Audigy2.png
I haven't gotten around to downloading that archive that you linked me to, but this really shouldn't be happening with updated software. I think I'm probably doing something wrong. Any ideas? -
That Creative package is not the original one that shipped with the G73JH.
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Ah well...
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why do you need so much the Ati hdmi audio ? (that's the audio driver through the GPU hdmi port right?)
i haven't installed it
i think that the creative is the same from asus site as on the disk (there is only one and that is version 1.0)
as far as for the stock realtek you can find it in softpedia.com just search g73jh realtek -
The server has a 2.0MB/s upload capacity, tho things get slower if you are on the other continents.
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@mite_jan: I don't know, although I'm 90% it fixed my subwoofer problems. I'm going off of what Mark said. I've never had to update sound drivers before. However, I don't think that's what's causing my conflict with Creative... both of the Realtek drivers installed properly.
EDIT: I've somehow manages to miss this thread this whole time: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/516054-creative-audio-center-lock-up-fix.html
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What exactly does the Ati hdmi audio driver do...? Do I need it if I have the other Realtek driver and Creative?
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i am a little bit confused too if it comes with the catalyst package but i guess no -
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whatever you do you don't need to reinstall creative
just reinstall the realtek HD audio driver
those creative software are so tricky...some can install them without a problem but some can't
and also don't forget that when you have installed realtek HD audio driver and you want to install another version , upgrade can't be done
so basically it uninstalls the current version then restarts and then after the restart installs them
p.s the hard thing is the creative recognise the realtek drivers ...after it recognise them you don't have problems installing whatever version you like -
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Ok, I'm getting close.
I can now open Creative Audio center, and everything works perfectly, until I enable Base Boost when it crashes. Considering this is the only reason I want Creative, this is a big turn off.
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Enable CMSS-3D, and set to minimum. Old workaround for crashing Bass Boost.
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Click on the main display button
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Hmm, odd. From what i gathered from re-reading the entire thread rapidly, you already tried uninstalling creative and re-installing it which was what i was going to suggest. You should have more options in the creative control panel. There is definitely something wrong with your creative installation aside from the usual lockup problem with older realtek drivers.
EDIT: Sorry, when you said speaker and mixer, i thought you meant the adjustments for speakers/mic + volume control when you open the control center. -
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Nope, didn't work. And I just realized that Alchemy is still saying that it can't detect an audio device required.
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maybe with the generic drivers or ati hdmi audio -
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I still use the original Creative package with the latest audio codec driver from Realtek....haven't had a crash in a year (since whenever a new Realtek driver version stopped the Steam crash thing). -
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EDIT: And Realtek is working fine. It's Creative that doesn't want to cooperate.
EDIT2: And I'm using the drivers off of Chastity's site. -
For Creative, I know that installing audio and Creative from the original install disk then updating Realtek to the latest works fine, and no hangs or crashes. I'm just sayin... -
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*sigh*
Alright. I'm going to try this again.
Uninstall everything
Reinstall Realtek
Reinstall ATI HDMI
Reinstall Creative
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Chastity has an image of the restore DVD on her driver page. I'm guessing it contains both the drivers and the windows 7 install. Maybe you could get the original creative from there, though i'm pretty sure she has a separate download link for the original creative as well. If you got your creative from asus' website try the ones on her page.
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http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/ChastityAudigy.png
This is killing me. I installed Realtek's stuff and then Creative, and it didn't work. So I reinstalled Realtek over Creative and it STILL doesn't work. -
Yes, this is it, but use the one from the driver cd image. It's a large download but you only have to dl it once then burn it to a dvd
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Dunno what the difference is, but if Chas says that it's easier to install from the driver CD...
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You're actually better off using the X-Fi MB package instead. It's more Win 7 friendly.
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EDIT: Is the link in this thread what you're talking about? http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/519478-creative-x-fi-mb-your-g73-realtek-hd-2-48-a.html If that is what you're talking about, can I just install it overtop of my Realtek drivers, or do I have to go through that whole guide?
***FINALLY****OOOkay. I followed his guide, including the custom Realtek drivers. And I think everything is working properly.. http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/powermapler/CreativeWorks.png
Bass Boost works splendidly, and everything sounds crisper on a whole. Now to mess around with the Creative settings. Thank you so much for the help, everyone.
G73jh Camera/Mic/sound drivers
Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by [email protected], May 7, 2011.