ATI HDMI Audio updates

thank you lord for this update.

i always had problems when i rebooted my system with the audio configuration.

whenever i'd install the ati hdmi, any time i reboot my system - anything that
uses sound seems to get confused at to what audio they can use. winamp
will just spit out an error, media player classic would always output to my
audigy -- no matter what i set the output to. the only way to resolve this
would be to disable/enable the ati hdmi in device manager.

no longer!

ha ha. pants of victory.
 
I used to have this problem, I fixed it by enabling the "use only default devices" in the Sound audio options for XP.
 
I installed these last night with my new 4850 and now it says nothing is plugged into HDMI even though it goes straight to my TV through HDMI. Before I installed these it worked anyone have any ideas? I'm using Vista 32bit and Cat 8.8
 
Did you do an upgrade or clean install? If you didn't do this already, try installing Driver Sweeper, running the Windows Control Panel uninstall applet for ATI software, rebooting into Safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, reboot to normal desktop and reinstalling all drivers.

Have you powered off your TV and back on again while the card was connected?
 
There is a problem with these latest RealTek HDMI audio drivers. Having the driver causes one of the services (dcom/plug&play through svchost.exe) to take 30-40% of the CPU resources in Vista, *all* the time. And that's on both cores of Athlon X2 3800+.

I spent quite a while trying to figure out why is the overall system resources was taking such a big hit. Disabling the audio device brings the idle load back to 0-2%.

By the way, this problem doesn't happen with the default Vista HD drivers.
 
I had the same problem and here is what I found out. When you install the driver the first time it actually uninstalls the HDMI audio driver. You have to restart and run the driver install again to actually install the driver other wise plug and play will constantly take about 40% of your resources looking for the hardware driver. Took me about 4 days to figure out what was going on.
 
Thank NN, I'll try it out.

But everything looked alright. The device manager showed that the hardware and drivers were installed correctly. The control-panel->sound configuration for ATI HDMI looked valid, with all the knobs to tweak sampling rate and other enhancements.

In any case, I'll try out the suggestion (running the driver installer file one more time) and report back.
 
lemonhead said:
Thank NN, I'll try it out.

But everything looked alright. The device manager showed that the hardware and drivers were installed correctly. The control-panel->sound configuration for ATI HDMI looked valid, with all the knobs to tweak sampling rate and other enhancements.

In any case, I'll try out the suggestion (running the driver installer file one more time) and report back.
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Everything appeared to be installed on my PC too that's why it took so lang to figure it out. Only reason I discovered it was I upgraded from the 2.00 to the 2.01 and when I installed 2.01 I actually read what it was doing and it said it will uninstall the original driver and reboot the computer. After it rebooted it still showed up in device manager as installed and I could tweak all the settings still but my CPU usage was through the roof. After I started the install again it installed the actual driver and rebooted and everything was back to normal with no CPU usage.
 
caveman-jim said:
Did you do an upgrade or clean install? If you didn't do this already, try installing Driver Sweeper, running the Windows Control Panel uninstall applet for ATI software, rebooting into Safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, reboot to normal desktop and reinstalling all drivers.

Have you powered off your TV and back on again while the card was connected?
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I installed these drivers but I still lose audio when I power off my TV and back on. I have my 4870 connected through hdmi directly to the TV. The only way I've found is to reboot the system to get the hdmi audio back. Its getting frustrating when I just want to leave my comp on idle and turn off the TV to save some energy. Is there a fix for this?
 
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Any ideas why this thing dosn't work on my HD 4550? I get a "No driver was supported in this driver package" error when ever I try to install it.
 
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