Philbo King is correct.
Furthermore:
Anything that says it's going to install antivirus or a toolbar etc.--do not install it. I'm guessing you got ASIO4ALL from an "unofficial" site (or that whoever makes ASIO4ALL has started packaging it with crap to make some money). Your instinct to not install it was a good instinct. As it is, ASIO4ALL is not recommended for most situations. It shouldn't be necessary and it shouldn't offer any improvement over the drivers that exist for your device (more info below). ASIO4ALL's popularity was from a time (20+ years ago) when if using Cubase (or Nuendo or possibly Wavelab...I forget now), you had to use ASIO drivers or nothing at all. ASIO4ALL was a way of forcing a device to use the ASIO system even if it didn't have its own ASIO drivers. So it became a recommendation that people just kept falling back to if their audio device wouldn't work for one reason or another. "Just install ASIO4ALL". That advice is very outdated and in most cases is not a good idea anymore (even if it's from a legit source, without spyware etc.)
Also there may be proper ASIO drivers made by Realtek for your device. If the drivers were installed from a disk, or from a zip file (etc.) check that disk or zip file's contents for a folder named ASIO. There will be some DLL files in there plus an installer for the ASIO driver. Download a new driver pack for it if you need to (from your mainboard's website; don't just download from any random "driver site" or you'll be in the same boat as when you downloaded ASIO4ALL or possibly worse). I got ASIO working for Realtek ALC892 and ALC887 devices (some of the most common Realtek devices), and the drivers worked well. The Realtek ASIO driver will show up in your driver list in Reaper. You'll have to choose ASIO as the driver type at the top of the dialog, then pick the Realtek ASIO from the next list box.
Also: WASAPI driver is good. It's low latency and should perform about as well as any ASIO driver (perhaps better, depending). Check the driver type list box for that and use it if it's there (it should be). Direct Sound is a bad driver choice; that should be your last resort.
Last edited by JamesPeters; 08-11-2019 at 04:50 PM.
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