download hdmi sound driver for windows 8

I've partitioned the hard drive and installed windows manually, alongside Arch Linux. It's worth mentioning that my Bootcamp setup isn't typical. Maybe they report success and silently fail? exe installers' drivers, Realtek, and Cirrus behind the scenes, without letting them install anything. It's possible that windows is denying the. This makes me believe that Windows 8.1 might have an issue with certain drivers, deeming them unusable in some way. 'Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date.' If I skip #'s 4 and 5, and browse directly for the driver files, Windows reports that the Driver software is already up to date. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for 圆4-based systems.' 'The folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device.

inf fileĪt this point windows complains that the driver does not support Windows 圆4, despite having '圆4' written all over it.

Click 'Have Disk.' and navigate to the.

Select 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers'.

Select 'Browse my computer for driver '.

Select High Definition Audio Controller from Device Manager.

I've tried manually installing the Cirrus Audio driver by performing the following:

Intel Graphics 4000 (apparently it does audio too)Įvery executable runs and reports success, however, I don't see any sign of a change apart from the Realtek driver copying files somewhere in Program Files, and the Intel driver blanking the screen a few times.

Realtek (I've tried nearly every link I've found).

Cirrus Audio (Both CirrusAudio圆4.exe and a manual.

Bootcamp setup.exe (No errors are reported, 'installs' a variety of sound drivers).

Most solutions I've found say drivers need to be reinstalled (downloaded from the internet or simpliy re-run from the Bootcamp support drivers) and I've currently tried the following: Its properties state that it has a Code 10 - 'This device cannot start', along with 'The requested operation was unsuccessful.' This is the only notion of an audio device listed in Device Manager. Windows shows a High Definition Audio Controller listed under System. Unfortunately, every 'solution' I've found seems to work for everyone else, but not for me. When I click on it, I get the usual 'detecting problems' garbage. I only have a speaker with an x on my notifications bar. Windows 8.1 isn't playing back audio on my 13' mid-2012 Macbook Pro.

Download hdmi sound driver for windows 8