Many consumer-grade sound cards (Realtek, Conexant) do not have dedicated ASIO drivers. Manufacturers often provide terrible WDM drivers with high latency. ASIO2WASAPI forces these cards to perform better than they were designed to, giving you a professional workflow on consumer hardware.
ASIO2WASAPI is a free, hardware-independent universal ASIO driver for Windows that acts as a translation layer between the professional ASIO protocol and the native Windows (Windows Audio Session API) asio2wasapi
It supports WASAPI's "Exclusive Mode," which allows applications to bypass the standard Windows mixer for lower latency and "bit-perfect" audio reproduction. Key Features & Version History Many consumer-grade sound cards (Realtek, Conexant) do not