Realtek HDA/UAD/Component Drivers

The driver you linked is a UAD driver and not, as written on the linked site, a HDA driver

only that he identifies himself as HDA so where is the problem and why did they stop supporting the HDA driver??

That's a mistake of the website, they don't distinguish between HDA and UAD. But a look into the package shows a Realtek folder with Realtek Audio Service, which indicates UAD.
Consider that HDA is a technology which is "old".
And your notebook is from 2016, so Acer moved on and dropped support for these old models.

Cheers
Tom

that's right Tom.  some of the info mentioned on the necacom.net site can be misleading or deceiving (Martin should know better not to fully trust what's mentioned there)

also actual HDA (nonUAD) drivers have FFxx designations like 9239 HDA FF00 (and that necacom.net site mostly doesn't mention FFxx [ie. FF00] in their realtek hd audio driver title descriptions)

and there are several variations of Acer Aspire F5-573G laptops made from late 2016 to 2017 (like F5-573G-74MV from this site , F5-573G-7441 from this site , F5-573G-52PJ from this site , etc.) - many of them come with Kaby Lake (aka. 7th generation Intel CPU)


latest HDA FFxx driver overall is 6.0.9273.1 FF04 for 64bit (x64) Windows 10/11
however, latest HDA FFxx driver for 32bit (x86) Windows 7/8.x/10 is 6.0.9239.1 FF00 & FF01 (ASRock has the 9239 HDA FF00 version while Microsoft has 9239 HDA FF01 for separate 32bit & 64bit cab downloads)

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moving on

v6.0.9520.1 UAD HP + Intel HDASST + XPERI/DTS APO4 SWC drivers from Hewlett-Packard (posted 7/21/2023)
{ sp147933 - release notes }
-for HP Spectre Foldable laptop (and possibly similar hp laptops) only; includes DTS Sound Unbound uwp app
 

v6.0.9536.1 UAD HP + Intel HDASST driver from Hewlett-Packard (posted 7/21/2023)
{ sp148176 - release notes }
-for HP Dragonfly 13.5 inch G4 Notebook PC (and possibly similar HP laptops) only

just in - v6.0.9539.1 UAD ASRock RTK driver from ASRock (posted 7/25/2023)

v6.0.9524.1 UAD Clevo driver from Clevo (posted 7/26/2023)