![]() Their Windows 7 debacle (what JimE refers to) was utterly insane, especially considering a highly technical end-user figured out a way to "hack" their drivers to work properly. They have an awful history of writing garbage drivers as well, just garbage in a different way. (I'll take a moment to note some of Gigabyte's new motherboards are using actual Intel NICs - oh thank the heavens, someone actually LISTENED!). Besides, I think everyone knows by now I'd love for Realtek to collapse. I'm not going to sit around screwing with Control Panel features and essentially playing with my ballsack to try and work around bad design in Realtek's drivers. The problems in question are/were almost certainly driver-related, but the problem is that the end-user has no way to rectify those. Trust me - it becomes infuriating very quickly. ![]() "What You Hear" or audio loopback at the driver level) feature to record the clicking/popping/stuttering, which means it was absolutely a driver-level problem. ![]() I was even able to use the "Stereo Mix" (e.g. I moved from the on-board Realtek ALC887 to a PCI Audigy SE due to continual problems with clicking, popping, and stuttering during Google Hangouts and Skype (I work remotely and online video/audio collaboration is a good portion of my day). I'm one of the people who switched back to a sound card due to problems with on-board audio.
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