Realtek HD Audio 1.88 for Win2000/WinXP and Windows Vista.

20th March 2008

A new version of the driver Realtek HD Audio 1.88 for Win2000/WinXP and for Windows Vista has come out.
The driver Win2000/WinXP supports the codecs of ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269. The package includes WDM-driver for Win2000/WinXP and for Winx64 (5.10.0.5574 version), utilities Realtek Soundman (version 1.0.0.30), and Realtek Sound Effect Manager.
The driver for Windows Vista supports ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269. The package includes a driver for Vista x86 and x64 (version 6.0.1.5574), as well as the utilities of Realtek Sound Effect Manager.
The advantages of High Definition Audio specifications before AC'97 are the support of the new formats, a higher frequency of bandwidth, the support of audio Plug and Play, more accurate speech recognition and its entry.