Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

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ApoxNM
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Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by ApoxNM »

Hi guys,

today I turned off my Nvidia HD sound drivers (deactivated in the manager) and left my Realtek drivers.

You can't imagine the difference, now I can play on ultra, completely smooth. Only around stations some mini freezes, but really not that bad.

If you have an nvidia card (and the crappy Experience Auto install feature) get rid of all non essential drivers. Makes it much better.
(Have read same issues with other games such as CSgo)

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Re: Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by Socratatus »

Never used Nvidia sound, can`t see the point, it just clogs things up. My motherboard also likes to try using Realtek drivers- I make sure that`s off since I use a separate soundcard. However if you have only your Motherboard sound then stay with Realtek.

Never have multiple sound drivers running on your pc. Just one.
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Re: Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by Invasion »

ApoxNM wrote: Tue, 18. Dec 18, 01:57 today I turned off my Nvidia HD sound drivers (deactivated in the manager) and left my Realtek drivers.
Can you explain how to do that? I don't have Geforce Experience installed, and not sure what "manager" you are talking about.
Is it the Nvidia Control Panel? Or did you have to disable/uninstall a service or application?
Many players are on Nvidia graphics and will want to try everything they can for better performance.
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Frenchie2403
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Re: Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by Frenchie2403 »

I disabled my Nvidia sound drivers by going into
Control panel
Device manager
Look for sound (or something similar)
Right click Nvidia sound drivers and click disable

Not am my comp right now so can't be more specific
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Re: Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by ApoxNM »

Invasion wrote: Tue, 18. Dec 18, 08:59
ApoxNM wrote: Tue, 18. Dec 18, 01:57 today I turned off my Nvidia HD sound drivers (deactivated in the manager) and left my Realtek drivers.
Can you explain how to do that? I don't have Geforce Experience installed, and not sure what "manager" you are talking about.
Is it the Nvidia Control Panel? Or did you have to disable/uninstall a service or application?
Many players are on Nvidia graphics and will want to try everything they can for better performance.
Yes, just go to your Device manager, and disable them. Like Frenchie2403 posted.
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Re: Turning of Nvidia Sound Drivers

Post by Invasion »

Frenchie2403 wrote: Tue, 18. Dec 18, 10:41 I disabled my Nvidia sound drivers by going into
Control panel
Device manager
Look for sound (or something similar)
Right click Nvidia sound drivers and click disable

Not am my comp right now so can't be more specific
Specific enough
Thank you :)
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