Old Noob seeks uptodate sound driver advice

[Johnny_Moriati]

@mlib

Release driver in background

Guys, please stop giving advice to release driver in background. Even my Realtek soundchip has a multi-client driver.
The solution is to tell Windows not to block the audio device.

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