Stereo mix on a Dell Dimension 9200 with Vista
You have got a Dell Dimension 9200 with Vista and you are fed up with Stereo mix missing from your sound control panel.
You have read a lot about using XP drivers, and running their installer in XP compatibility mode. It did not work.
You have read a lot about how to modify .ini files to make things work, but your computer ended up not muttering a single sound.
You tried to add keys in the registry with no better result.
All you know is that sigmatel+Dell is a nice piece of crap. You are suspecting that Realtek+Sony is not better, but this is another story.
Eventually, you will find the solution: Load the IDT driver here and just install it (IDTv087.zip, 20.31MB). That’s it. No mod, no nothing. You’ve just lost one week to sort this out, and to be able to record rubbish music on deezer…
Concerning Sony (mine is a VAIO VGN-FW21M), same problem (maybe more complex, because SONY specifcally asked driver makers not to implement stereo mix on their machine). In that case, you will have to try every driver from Realtek and pray, until it is OK. V1.65 works, while V1.99 does not. V2.27 does not either. I had not enough courage to check out versions in between. If you want, give me a feed back.
The V1.65 is available on the ftp site of Realtek. I found it on 218.210.127.133 (/pc/audio). It took a while. Their site was terribly slow. Was it temporary? DOn’t know.