What is an Audio Driver?
An audio driver is like a translator for your computer. It helps your device understand how to play sound through different speakers or screens, making sure the right sounds come out of the right device.
How Does the Airtame Audio Driver Works?
The Airtame audio driver for Windows helps your computer send sound to an Airtame screen during screen sharing. When installed, the Airtame app will automatically switch audio output to the Airtame Virtual audio device when starting to share your screen and adding audio. When you finish sharing your screen, it automatically switches the sound back to your laptop's original speakers.
Who is it for?
Most Windows computers can share audio via the Airtame app without extra help. However, a small percentage of computers have audio drivers that do not follow Windows guidelines. If that is the case users might experience that audio is either coming out of the Airtame screen and the laptop speakers or that when muting the laptop speakers, no audio is emitted at all from either source. This issue has most often been observed on certain AMD-powered Lenovo laptops with Realtek audio drivers.
That said the audio driver is recommended for any Airtame user on Windows since it's the most robust way of sharing audio to Airtame devices.
A list of output devices with the Airtame audio driver selected
How to Install the Airtame Audio Driver
The audio driver has to be installed with the Airtame application. Here are three ways to install the Airtame audio driver:
- During Airtame App Installation: When you first install the Airtame App, you'll see an option to install the audio driver.
- After Installation: Open the Airtame App, go to Preferences, and toggle the Use Airtame Audio Driver option. This will retrigger downloading and installing the latest Airtame application, thereby allowing users who didn't install the driver the first time around to get it through re-installation.
- Deploy via the Airtame MSI installer: add this to the installation parameters to install the driver:
/quiet WRAPPED_ARGUMENTS="/install_windows_virtual_driver=true"