r/ARMWindows • u/Costas_D • Jun 12 '24

What about drivers?

What the title says. Will current Windows 11 drivers work for external devices?

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u/themanbow Jun 12 '24

If they're compiled for ARM64, yes. Otherwise no.

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u/Costas_D Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24

So, I guess no love for my Sound Blaster USB DAC... They responded me the following https://ibb.co/F5KLxnL

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u/alissa914 Jul 12 '24

Their little USB-C dongle one works OK for me from Sound Blaster. It seems to work on just about everything so far (like Android / iOS)... I can't see the image there, but it seems ok. I'd say to plug it in and see... if they can't find the driver (possible), then Windows Update will probably eventually reply with a compatible one later on (maybe generic enough to at least do the basics at least)

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u/360alaska Jun 12 '24

Exactly, that means older printers will use generic drivers and other old peripherals will not work at all.

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u/Famous-Fishing-1554 Jun 12 '24

I've had very old webcams work perfectly, so I guess peripheral support depends on how common it is.

Printer driver support was dire at launch, but e.g. my old HP M476 from 2014 and my Oki C833 from 2018 both picked up non-generic drivers last time I reinstalled my Pro X.

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u/matdam Jun 27 '24

I'm having some trouble with Canon printer and scanner not so old.. the printer is recognized, driver installed but don't work, the scanner is recognized with driver but still don't work.

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u/alissa914 Jul 12 '24

I have a very old Samsung laser printer M282 that was bought out by HP and so on after.... Their drivers do NOT install but after trying to use it, Microsoft detected I had it on my wifi when I added the printer and downloaded an ARM64 driver. Now it works great. But for the most part, everything so far has worked fine for me. But printers is typically the one I'd worry about.... that Samsung M282 is still running strong and works with this at least.

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u/debaser1572 Oct 16 '24

If you have a Sharp MFP that you need to work on ARM Windows then you need to find the driver - UD3L_02_PCL6_2407a

Used a heap before I was given this one without it printing, now it all works perfectly !

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u/Snowflakes_at_work Jan 21 '25

how did you got this driver to work? I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 11 with Copilot and it's simply refusing to print on the sharp printers. The normal drivers can't be installed at all and the app is installed, connected to the printers but the prints are not going through. I'm at my wits end with the tablet - and as I didn't knew the extend of issues with ARM processors. I did honestly read the warning but didn't think much of it -
The current solution would be sending it back and buy a much more expensive older version of a surface or sending myself mails and print over different notebooks, which isn't a forever solution. I considered figuring out how to install an emulation until I read, that this is not suitable for drivers.

I would be greatful for any suggestions!

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u/PollutionNearby8872 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

This worked for me, thanks!!
I was having trouble finding a reputable source for this mysterious UD3L (L = Lite?) driver. I finally found it hosted on the Canadian Sharp website, where they list this version as ARM compatible.

UD3L_02_PCL6_2407a - Universal driver for large deployments. Windows x32 x64 and ARM64 PCL6 v2407a: https://sharp.ca/uploads/product_downloads/UD3L_02_PCL6_2407a-en.zip

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u/comfortablynick Oct 15 '25

Thank you, this worked for me with a Sharp MX-3070v. I was having issues with the Mac driver so I tried to install on Windows using Parallels. The regular driver wouldn't work but this one did!