stereo mix has completely died on me

[chris]

The other day I discovered that my screen recorder was unable to record sound. I discovered that something was wrong with stereo mix. I decided to uninstall the drivers and install the laptops stock ones (which never worked BTW) and that did nothing but mess up my microphone so I went to realTek and installed the latest drivers from there. my microphone and other settings got fixed but stereo mix didn't. It is just completely dead, I can't start audacity without disabling stereo mix first.

Any help on how to fix this would be appreciated

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Whats really strange is that sothink SWF to AVI converter and Fraps can still record normally.

[IskatuMesk]

Ew audacity.

Annoying audio utilities aside, download motherboard drives and uninstall realtek ones before installing. Should this fail to work, find your specific chipset drivers.

[Lavarinth]

RealTek and laptops don't like each other, to be honest, but I suggest searching on Google and reading your issues, such as "realtek no stereo mix." I had an issue where the microphone was unresponsive on an Alienware computer (terrible computers) and I had better luck downloading a RealTek file from a forum than from the official site.

[chris]

Wow, this computer is fucking nuts. It fixed itself. while disabled I right clicked on stereo mix and saw that the set to default option wasn't greyed out anymore. I clicked it and everything was back to normal. WAT

Edit: Wait, no. It's not fixed. It's just back to the way it was before I tried fixing it. a few missing options and my software refuses to record from it saying something is wrong with the imput device settings.