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katlani · ‎04-04-2019

Hi,

I noticed today that suddenly some driver pages have duplicated driver entries where version did not change, just file size and date.

VGA

Version 25.20.100.6471
2019/04/04 340.19 MBytes
Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver
300 series platform
RS5 WHQL.

Version 25.20.100.6471
2019/01/24 340.25 MBytes
Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver
Improve system stability & Support Windows 10 Build 17763
Due to the different structure for drivers, suggest you remove the old driver first before install this version driver.

LAN

Version 12.18.8.4
2019/04/03 2.5 MBytes
Intel LAN Driver
1.Support LAN IC:I219
2.Support OS: Win10 64bit

Version 12.18.8.4
2019/01/24 2.6 MBytes
Intel I219 LAN Driver
Improve system stability & Support Windows 10 Build 17763

Wireless

Version 2024.0.4.102
2019/04/04 25.58 MBytes
ASUS Wi-Fi Driver

Version 20 24.0.4.102
2019/01/24 25.67 MBytes
ASUS Wi-Fi Driver
Improve system stability & Support Windows 10 Build 17763

BlueTooth

Version 1.5.1014.3003
2019/04/03 21.68 MBytes
ASUS Bluetooth Driver

Version 1.5.1014.3003
2019/01/24 21.71 MBytes
ASUS Bluetooth Driver
Improve system stability & Support Windows 10 Build 17763

...and so on..

Any idea if its indeed changed?

Guitarmageddon1 · ‎04-04-2019

Yea I mentioned in another post it looked they added today's date to drivers less current than we're getting posted here on the fourm. Also, the UAD driver looks very odd and possible incorrect? it is FF03 which does mean nahimic integration, but the file name is saying something about DTS...which I didnt think we had on these boards. Nor has that been mentioned in any other driver update.

From the maximus x code page.

Realtek Audio Driver
V8468_WHQL_20180621_DTSCustom1.06_DTSHPX1.73_SonicSuite3.6.42_FF03_RS4

(NEW_DigitalSignature)

Wonder if theyre just resigning drivers due to the shadowhammer debacle? not sure how that works.

katlani · ‎04-04-2019

hmm, DTS HPX is something i have on my PRIME Z370-A (not a ROG), so indeed it should be Nahimic and not that one on the one you mentioned.. what a bloody mess.
So indeed perhaps all are the same drivers, just with updated signing due suspected malware issue. Unless this is a technical mistake.

Anyways i thought that's more relevant to laptops using the Live Update utility.

Also have looked on the post you have mentioned, so i guess that even if we try to update, it will notify us that we already have an equivalent or higher version installed.

One more thing i noticed that indicates this is a resign, every file has an "R" suffix next to the date: 20190401R
Still wondering why haven't they re-signed all.

Guitarmageddon1 · ‎04-04-2019

katlani wrote:
hmm, DTS HPX is something i have on my PRIME Z370-A (not a ROG), so indeed it should be Nahimic and not that one on the one you mentioned.. what a bloody mess.
So indeed perhaps all are the same drivers, just with updated signing due suspected malware issue. Unless this is a technical mistake.

Anyways i thought that's more relevant to laptops using the Live Update utility.

Also have looked on the post you have mentioned, so i guess that even if we try to update, it will notify us that we already have an equivalent or higher version installed.

One more thing i noticed that indicates this is a resign, every file has an "R" suffix next to the date: 20190401R
Still wondering why haven't they re-signed all.

Oh so some boards do have DTS, good to know. Yea seems like a big screwup somewhere along the line. Which sound drivers have you been using may I ask. The regular UAD with nahimic they post here, or some other version? Also its weird that version I posted was like 5 times the size a normal UAD.

katlani · ‎04-04-2019

I'm using the Realtek UAD DTX HPX W10 x64 6.0.1.8496 which was released last year, as there was no update ever since for my board (also checked with support team). I don't think my board will support Nahimic, as it installs the DTS software and HPX addon from the Microsoft store as soon as you install this driver i have mentioned.
Another thing i noticed in regards to the thread is that some files have "updated driver certificate" in the description (software updates mainly).

theWanderer521 · ‎04-04-2019

Same with ROG Z370-E drivers and tools page ~ has ASUS checked on this yet? I hope there are no malwares on these drivers

katlani · ‎04-12-2019

Seems like someone from the team have went over the driver page (at least for PRIME Z370-A) and removed some of the duplicates (left the new resigns), and also added a new entry for Intel RST that was missing.

Duplication of Driver Entries