Talk about a clumsily-exaggerated 3D audio effect! I have to turn sideways to something to "hear" it properly. And it sounds as though two paper towel tubes are taped to my head. Any player speech or user-interface noises are muted or lost entirely. I can't hear any sounds that the player makes, only echoes off nearby surfaces. This is especially bad in first-person shooter games. In games, I can hear what's supposed to be ambient noise perfectly, but anything happening in the field of view is muted, or I hear what are supposed to be echoes of it, but not the sound itself. If I run an MP3 player with the headphones on, it sounds that I am listening NOT to the MP3, but to the MP3 being played through cheap speakers in a padded room, from the viewpoint of somebody just outside the window. It's as though there is some "ad hoc" 3D sound emulation going on. Now I have a few extra control panel applications added to my system, and my "headphones on" listening experience is wrecked. I have not had any trouble with it until I recently updated the driver for it (that'll teach me to pay attention to Windows Update). I have an ASUS P4S8X motherboard and am using the on-board AC-97 sound hardware.
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