shibajee / realtek-hda-creative-sbc-mod

Realtek HD Audio Driver with Creative Sound Blaster Connect

Instructions:

• First uninstall current realtek audio driver.
• Restart ur PC with Disable driver signature enforcement: (The procedure below is for Win 10/11. Win 7 and 8/8.1 has slightly different steps to go into this mode, pls search google/youtube for that)

Go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced startup > click Restart now

Now go to Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > click Restart

After the restart u will get a Startup Settings page, press F7 to go into disable driver signature enforcement.

• Download driver "Realtek_HDA_CTAPO_v6.0*****.7z" from here and extract it.

• Go to FF00_PG4**_CTAPO folder and double click Setup.exe.

Continue with the warning sign and click Install this driver software anyway. Do not restart, select I will restart my computer later.

• Restart ur PC

• Now go to SBConnect2 folder and install "CreativeSBConnect2MasterInstallerOEM.exe", uncheck the launch SBConnect now box at the end of the installation.

• We have to activate the installed software. Go to GenKGA folder and run GenKGA.bat as administrator, activation will be done automatically.

(Some antivirus might detect GenKGA3.1.exe as a false posivite as like any other self made exe file, the source of GenKGA file can be found HERE. Just disable ur antivirus/realtime protection or made the whole setup folder as a safe folder in antivirus.)

• Restart ur PC again. If everything is ok, SBConnect2 will launch automatically after the restart. Play a music file and try different presets in SBConnect app to ensure that creative effects r working properly.

FAQ:

• Which Windows version is compatible ?

Windows 7, 8.1, 10/11.

• Both 32bit and 64bit ?

Yes. This is the only mod I'm supporting for 32bit peasants.

• Which realtek audio chips are supported with this mod ?

Almost every audio chip they made.

• Any plan to add multiple APO in future ?

No, I like things simple and lightweight.

• Any update schedule for driver ?

When I have free time.

realtek-hda-creative-sbc-mod's Issues

sound come out from both laptop speaker and headphones

i have hp laptop when i setup the driver the sound come out from speakers and headphones i tihnk this is problem with my hp cause when i download the original driver from hp website it works do you have any solution for that

Request

Could you update the realtek management panel as a windows(UWP) application?
Also, I would be grateful if you could update the realtek driver.

Not working anymore

Hey there, I have been using this mod for 4 months and had 0 issues with it but recently, the app isnt working, it doesnt popup on startup, my windows version got updated to 2004 version so i think that maybe is a issue but i tried re installing before the windows update and it still didnt work. This driver is very good. I really appreciate your work. It would be very helpful if you look into the issue. and 1 more thing, your other driver mods are super good BUT there is one problem that is, when i unplug headphone and re plug it there is no popup of the driver(realtake driver) i have to launch realtake console and connect manually, this is super annoying and sometimes it doesnt even work. It would be really helpful if you fix that on the next updates of other mods(dont worry sbc doesnt have this issue) but yeah, please look into it. love your work and modded drivers.

Thank You