Can i ask you though, in that pursuit, i've tried this and it's apparently incorrect in what i try to do because even when i attempt to uninstall the realtek for what i believed was non-UAD it somehow re-applies the UAD drivers even if it's in a different version! And it will grief-out if you try to swap the drivers while the others are in place as the typical tag of 'the proper' drivers are already installed or something to that effect:) If you really want that Enhancement tab to appear, uninstall the existing Realtek UAD drivers, reboot and switch to using traditional Realtek HDA drivers if your machine can support non-UAD based Realtek drivers. Realtek UAD drivers will not have it - that's one limitation of using UAD drivers. Only traditional/legacy Realtek HDA (nonUAD) drivers will have the Enhancements tab options. That's where your Enhancement options will be available only, leis & sandyt. If all that you want is loudness and EQ, invest in external hardware tools for audio processing. Audi DSP technology changes and improves because the algorithms get better. Everything is moving towards apps for all OS platforms. Virtual surround sound software for true audiophiles 8228, and 8308 work for me, and both sound as good as anything since. So all I can say, especially if your board supports Nahimic or something like it, is try an older driver. 1.0), that uses HDA drivers and the Realtek EQ & environment sound effect options are available, even when using the. I also use a Gigabyte board (a GA-78LMT-USB3 R2 rev. next motherboard purchase that you get better not be an MSI brand board, Quexos. I think you can direct your complaints to MSI for removing or blocking the Realtek EQ & environment effects for most of their modern gaming boards & laptops like your B450 gaming board when installing recent HDA (nonUAD) drivers. Yet on my Gigabyte board, they all still have the effects with all drivers. simply will not show any effects at all without Nahimic even though the 8308 and older ones had the default effects built into the Windows and Realtek driver control panels without installing any 3rd party garbage. My board is an MSI B450 Gaming that uses Nahimic (I will not use/install that trash) to handle 'effects'. I have been searching for a solution to this problem for many months now.

But even if I did, it still requires Nahimic for effects.and that is a great big NOPE! The UAD stuff won't work for me because I don't/won't use Windows Store. EDIT: All this referring to HDA driver versions.

Windows 10 enhancements tab missing