Hello, I had recently bought Far Cry, and the game is great, ran great, and sounded great. It was great to say the least However, I decided I'd like to take advantage of EAX Features that these new games offer, so I decided to ditch my Nvidia Soundstorm that my A7N8X Deluxe has Onboard and move on to the SB Audigy 2 ZS. The problem is that I get crackles/pops constant while I play, and it starts out fine and then just degrades into an annoyance that I can't stand. Just to name a few things I've tried: -Latest Drivers/game updates -CMSS 3D sound off -EAX on/off, Compatibility mode on/off, doppler effects on/off. -Hardware acceleration at Highest, Improved, Standard, and Emulation. -switch PCI slot and reinstall drivers. I have my fingers crossed to the breaking point that possibly the 1.2 Far Cry patch remedies this issue, but that seems a little too good. Any help would be beyond appreciated. -David Savercool

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp Go there and search for your sound card and update the drivers if you haven't already.

Oops didnt finish reading your post the first time nevermind ;).

my quadrophonic speakers setup won't work with this game. In Farcrys options i set it to 4 speakers but the back 2 don't ever work