Manual Installation of SDR#
Manual Installation of the RTL-SDR drivers with SDR# for the RTL-SDR
NOTE PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: You only need to do a manual driver installation if the automatic installation described in the quick start guide has failed! This page is purely instructions for a manual install which 99.9% of the time is not necessary!
1) Download the RTL-SDR Drivers, and extract the rtlsdr.dll file from the x86 folder into the SDR# folder:
http://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog/releases/latest/download/Release.zip
2) Download zadig from their website and place it into the SDR# folder:
https://zadig.akeo.ie
Indeed, this is a nightmare to work with and I have worked pretty complicated situations. I can’t also believe they do not have a version for WIn XP or Vista, it is a relatively simple program.
I have been working with computers since 1981. I have written software and designed hardware. This software is simply impossible to operate. It will not install (I know what I am doing and have persevered for ten full days.)
just use sdr++, the interface makes way more sense and it runs wayyy better.
It’s also not a confusing mess of gui elements.
I got my version to run well under Windows-10, but on my Windows-7 machine, it starts, but the GUI won’t appear. I also tried SDR++ and even though it basically runs, there’s something wrong and SDR# works a lot better, so I don’t know what’s going on.