


In conclusion, in most cases the OS is at fault directly for the major sound issues that are very hard to track/fix. Improvisations like disabling all effects will have bad consequences, like lower volume or even undistinguishable audio.

Disabling specific things like Dolby, DTS or EAX may partially make things better. Generally, sound is harder to tweak assuming it functions relatively correctly initially. Issues like auto-volume reduction are still unfixed practically. But there are way more functionality problems. In the newer 8.X and 10 versions, it's even a worse quality (but not that of a big decrease like from XP to Vista/7). Even good tweakers like SRS lost a lot of possibilities. If sound could be considered quite of good quality in XP, in Vista and 7 it lost a lot of quality due to the multiple OS layers interfering with the actual sound card functionality. I'll attach photos below.Overall sound quality and functionality decreased with each major windows version since XP. For some reason, the default detection for the audio jack was set to headphones, so I had to change that to headset and BADABING!! It started working. I made sure that the proper drivers were installed from the manufacturer's website ( ), and opened up Realtek Audio Console. Thanks to SnooCapers1500, I was able to finally figure out the issue. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this issue? Am I the only one having this issue? I tried updating the audio drivers and updating windows along with checking to make sure everything was set correctly as the default device. However, when I plug my headset into the headphone jack, it won't detect the microphone and the laptop will continue using the built-in microphone in the laptop. I just got my Gigabyte Aorus 15G YC laptop about a week ago, and I wanted to use my headset (HyperX Cloud Stinger) with the laptop to game on Warzone.
