If you don’t have the software driver that goes along with a particular piece of hardware then that hardware might as well notĮxist. Rather than have Windows have to know about every possible sound card ever madeĪnd could possibly be made, drivers are provided for each that perform that translation. One sound card’s hardware might be controlled in aĬompletely different way than another’s.
“If you don’t have the software driver that goes along with a particular piece of hardware then thatĪnd I do mean “specific to that hardware” quite literally.