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EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control

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2019/09/02 06:14:34 (permalink)
After installing the Nu Audio card with it's drivers I noticed there are a couple of processes running with HIGH integrity with FULL elevation.
 

 
Is there any reason why processes, "EVGA_NahimicAPISvc32.exe" and "EVGA_NahimicAPISvc64.exe" need to run with such high elevation privileges? It would be better/safer to have these processes running with LOW integrity with LIMITED elevation...
 
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    Teddy Rogers
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/09/23 05:59:06 (permalink)
    Is there a specific email address for the development / support team I could contact regarding this?
     
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/09/23 10:37:11 (permalink)
    This is a user to user forum. Sometimes EVGA representation is present, but often not. If you want to contact EVGA support, refer to the methods in this link: https://www.evga.com/about/contactus/

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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/09/24 05:49:46 (permalink)
    Already tried to contact EVGA support, hence one of the reasons for posting here. I will reattempt contact...
     
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/09/24 14:16:29 (permalink)
    Default for the priority is "Normal", so it's unclear why it's running as a higher priority.  I wonder if you have a program that manages QoS and it might be elevating the Nahimic software automatically. to help with gaming.
     
    Feel free to try setting the priority to normal or low to see if the stutter disappears.
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/12 18:52:51 (permalink)
    No, it is not being elevated because of another process. The executable(s) contain no manifest (which it should be using) and are instead opting to use ShellExecuteEx to restart itself with administrator user privileges.
     
    During installation the installer creates a runtime registry entry and uses the following command line arguments to run with Windows start-up:
     
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
     
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\EVGA\NU Audio Card\EVGA_NahimicAPI\x86\EVGA_NahimicAPISvc32.exe" /start all/silent
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\EVGA\NU Audio Card\EVGA_NahimicAPI\EVGA_NahimicAPISvc64.exe" /start all/silent
     
    An entry to Windows Task Scheduler also exists with the following arguments and oddly enough without any triggers to start it - why?
     
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\EVGA\NU Audio Card\EVGA_NahimicAPI\x86\EVGA_NahimicAPISvc32.exe" $(Arg0) $(Arg1) $(Arg2) $(Arg3) $(Arg4) $(Arg5) $(Arg6) $(Arg7)
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\EVGA\NU Audio Card\EVGA_NahimicAPI\EVGA_NahimicAPISvc64.exe" $(Arg0) $(Arg1) $(Arg2) $(Arg3) $(Arg4) $(Arg5) $(Arg6) $(Arg7)
     
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/13 05:24:06 (permalink)
    @Ted:
     
    Yes same issue which you have here described and other users have post also here.
     
     
    I found for me an solution.
     
    I look into the task scheduler (Aufgabenplanung) and i see 2 taks too with the same arguments "$(Arg0) $(Arg1) $(Arg2) $(Arg3) $(Arg4) $(Arg5) $(Arg6) $(Arg7)" and that the task can´t run. See picture "EVGA_Task_Scheduler_overview".
    There is an error message 0x41303.
     
    Looks like that this arguments are wrong ....
     
    So therefore i create two new task.
    - One for the EVGA_NahimicAPISvc64.exe
    - and a second one for the EVGA_NahimicAPISvc32.exe
     
    Most important is, to activate higher privileges. This is stopping the request from UAC. See Screenshot EVGA_new_task_1.JPG
    and
    to set the right  arguments "/start all/silent". See Screenshot EVGA_new_task_2.JPG
    and the 3.
    is to start task if user is the trigger. See Screenshot EVGA_new_task_3.JPG
    and 4.
    deactivate in task manager the autostart from registry. See Screenshot EVGA_new_task_4.JPG
     
    So after an reboot , both tasks are started without UAC prompt and  
    EVGA_NahimicAPISvc64.exe
    EVGA_NahimicAPISvc32.exe
    are automatically started.
     
     
    So maybe this workaround helps other too, until EVGA have fixed it in an newer sw version..
     
     Good luck ;-)
    post edited by RadioHorst - 2019/10/13 05:26:47

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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/14 10:47:21 (permalink)
    Thanks for continuing to look into this.  I've forwarded this again to our Audio Team.
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/15 09:51:52 (permalink)
    As an update, I've been told this will be fixed when we've received Nahimic's updated driver.  Just waiting on that, currently.
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/15 10:20:40 (permalink)
    sounds good. Thx for the info. I´m curios for the changelog.
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/17 15:32:17 (permalink)
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    As an update, I've been told this will be fixed when we've received Nahimic's updated driver.  Just waiting on that, currently.



    Are you able to provide details of the changes to come please?
     
    Ideally my preference would be to not have have any of these processes elevated at all...
     
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/23 14:08:05 (permalink)

    Ah, so THAT is what was happening with my card. Looking forward to an update.

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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/10/23 14:21:36 (permalink)
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    As an update, I've been told this will be fixed when we've received Nahimic's updated driver.  Just waiting on that, currently.



    Are you able to provide details of the changes to come please?
     
    Ideally my preference would be to not have have any of these processes elevated at all...
     
    Ted.


    I don't have a change log at this time.  The latest information I have is that we are looking at an early Nov. release.  I don't have a more specific date than that, at the moment.
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    Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Process Integrity Control 2019/11/27 22:41:44 (permalink)
    Would be nice if this is updated in the Software/installer!




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