But as the software recognizes something gets plugged in, I don't think it is a hardware issue.Īs a curiosity, with your graphics performance, I would like to hear what kind of FPS you get in Planetside 2, if you have it installed? (Free to play, can find it in Steam).As one of the most efficient and most used performance monitor tools on Windows, the MSI afterburner, as a software, gives you total control over several settings and activities on your laptop, all in real-time. I have also tried the 8.1 versions and the windows HD audio, and nothing gets the headset mics working. Of the realtek drivers, I have tried several versions, including all the latest they release on their ftp. For example nvidia drivers were not at all in Win10. After win 8.1 upgrade I had to install several drivers again, because the upgrade screwed something. I asked about this in another thread and since no one else has reported the same issue, I am again suspecting this might be something that can be fixed with a clean install.

And all of them work in another Win7Pro laptop. But still, when going to recording devices, there is only the laptop builtin mic there and no new mics. Realtek HD audio recognizes that something was plugged in the jack, and I can choose 'Mic in' from the the popup. This is offtopic, but: I am having also problem with the mic jack. Kind of odd even using DDU and still it failed. Nothing like a clean install from time-to-time anyway. So it is possible with your display drivers to have a similar problem like that. They never installed after that! So I did a clean install of 8.1 (no drivers installed) and then to 10 and everything took afterwards. It kept thinking Windows 10 was 8.1 and would give me 'Unsupported OS' error message which was retarded since the drivers were for Windows 10 but the drivers I had installed were from when I was on 8.1. I have had myself a problem when going from Windows 8.1 (installed all my drivers) to 10 (upgraded later on) when I finally wanted to update my sound drivers. Which basically either A) results in throttling (core/voltage) or B) blackscreening and will require a hard restart to fix (no biggie). Once you get near IIRC, 1300-ish and 1.1v, does the power limit start reaching 100%+ at stock power limits set in the vBIOS.

It's not necessary but the gain IS there if you do.

Msi afterburner on laptop