Dear KGB999, you are now my biggest hero!
As a want-to-be music producer the whole beats audio deal was ruining everything. And the more I listened to music the more I became aware of volume swings that clearly wasn't supposed to be there... This in turn ruined my ability to enjoy listening to music on my laptop.
I hardly care about the features that I'm not missing out on, I've spent so much time reading on this forum, trying little things here and there, but your sollution just works! And as a side bonus Beats Audio is now gone from my system tray as well...
You've made my ENVY worth keeping, thank you so frikkin much!!
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And then I tried taking the headphones off...
Previously I wasn't even aware that my laptop had speakers on the backside (the part that it usually stands on, reverse of the keyboard) ...now they are the ONLY ones playing. I don't even know what to do anymore... I'll have to go back to the official drivers I guess, because I'm mostly using the laptop speakers rather than my headphones.. But it's either **bleep**ty sound & laptop speakers working or listenable sound without laptop speakers working... what a f---king mess... HP, I hate you! Sad to say it, but this sucks and now I've lost all respect for your brand. Writing it here hardly matters because it's not like you're gonna read on your own support forum anyway :(
fml.