My question would be how did all of those other people access it. Since one cannot have the Realtek Audio Manager in a Dell one has to wonder how they determined that was the answer. Of the two settings it has, one of them is 'Show advanced settings', so kudos to whomever decided to make that monstrosity.Įvery post I've found online says that the Realtek HD GUI is the way to go I need to set it to allow two different devices to be used in the same jack, and Dell Audio replaced Realtek's GUI with its own, which is pretty. The main issue: There's a Realtek setting I need to change, and Dell Audio exists solely to disallow that. Sorry if I sound really angry right now, but I think we've all been there. Someone please help me out with this, because I just forked over $100 for this, and I'm planning on using it for professional gaming and podcasting purposes no mic won't cut it. What I don't have: Realtek's audio manager. What I have, of relevance: Razer Blackshark headset + detachable mic Dell Inspiron 15 w/ just one, unified audio jack every single Realtek and Microsoft audio driver compatible with Windows 8.1. My headphones work fine, but the microphone isn't even detected. I followed some steps from Dell's community website, and switched the Realtek driver with the Microsoft driver, and that got the headphones themselves working. Then I discovered that Dell decided to replace Realtek's GUI with 'Dell Audio', which literally had two options, one of which was whether it should even show settings or not.

I spent the next 4 hours downloading, re-downloading, installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling Realtek drivers, because everyone said that I had to enable some setting or another related to treating jacks as separate devices or something, and I don't have the Realtek HD GUI at least, I didn't think so. I bought a Razer Blackshark headset, it didn't work when plugged in.

My problem, in the simplest terms possible: 'For starters, no threads anywhere online have solved my issue. Copy of my TomsHardware post, where no one attempted to help:

Realtek hd audio manager two headsets