you can try unchecking it, and do a calibration with the guitars volume reduced will make it raise the gain setting. And, lets be honest, its not dirt cheap to waste money on more than one Real-Tone cable just to play a week and then it doesnt work anymore. its normal for windows to automatically reduce the cables input gain, esp when exclusive control is enabled. Rocksmith+ is a follow-up to the original Rocksmith franchise, with a major change to a subscription-based music education service. This would be the same, but no one else makes a real-tone cable replacement or a 'second option'. It dynamically adjusts the difficulty to your skill level, then slowly introduces more notes and phrases until you’re playing your favorite songs note-for-note.
Rocksmith is a music video game series which aims to teach guitar by letting you plug in virtually any guitar or bass and becomes your personal guitar teacher as it monitors how you play.