Realtek Audio HP Reverb G2
@MoKiChU ... First off, thank you very much for your stellar work here, I found this thread at the back end of last year after a new build with the Crosshair Hero VIII (WiFi), and I am absolutely certain I would have taken the PC outback and smashed it with a hammer if it wasn't for the drivers here and this thread! I cannot actually express my thanks enough to you my good sir!
I kinda don't want to ask this question, because if the threads I've read over the last week are anything to go by, then the HP Reverb is such a broken piece of kit, that there is probably very little that anyone can do to help, but I figured that I sort of have an obligation to post something about my recent failed experience, because it seems to be relevant to the Realtek drivers in some sense, (I think)!
Yes, the HP Reverb G2, which apparently also uses Realtek, is probably a dreaded topic at the moment. I currently have an open ticket with HP for a replacement cable, (in the queue for a piece of eternal string, yes, I know) ... BUT, this is the story and an explanation as to why I've posted this here.
So I get this new headset, go through all the same issues almost everyone else has had, can't get it connected to begin with, experiencing various errors in WMR, then HP send me a USB hub, that works for 2 days, but I can't get any sound through the headset. So I follow the thread trail and go about trying to connect it in different USB ports with no joy. I then figure I'll roll back to the basic Realtek driver to see if that makes a difference,, (after removing SS3 and all the jazz, because I've become fairly efficient at the removal and clean reinstall process, thanks to this thread and SS3 crashing after any new sound device is added). But after that the Reverb HMD just dies altogether. No connection to WMR at all, (hence the ticket for a new cable because now I'm being notified of a USB not recognised error in Windows 10, rather than just the limited connection issues I had before).
This was all at the weekend just gone, then I got to thinking today, are third-party audio drivers compatible with that device anyway? Or would they supersede the anticipated drivers in the same way that I think they do with the innate drivers that Windows installs at installation? It would be helpful to know, because it'll be one of the things I can tick off the list when the new cable (eventually) arrives, and it'll help me decide which audio drivers I should install, and whether getting audio directly from the device is just something that can't be done at the moment (I'm new to this by the way, as you can probably tell by my long rambling way of explaining things).
Apparently there is known USB compatibility issue with x570 MBs and the HP Reverb, (and no, I didn't find that out until spending the cash). But if that's the case, should I just scrap trying to use the sound from the onboard headset and stick with these drivers? Or go the other way and scrap the MB's SS3 / SR3 / DTS and use the official drivers? ... (Or should I do what I actually want to do and take the fecking chunk of annoying expensive materials outside, then have 5 minutes of total carnage before moving to live in a tree house for the rest of forever in deep regret ... that last bit was rhetorical by the way)!
Any thoughts or guidance on this issue from anyone would be very welcome! Thank you. I am also prepared for responses that tell me that I have a fundamental misunderstanding of these devices and their associated software, because I can also be a bit thick, I'm not a developer, or a tech specialist, just someone that likes to shoot virtual things and generally. fumble around with technology that far exceeds my own capabilities! :)