EAX & Battlefield 2:
Q:  When playing Battlefield 2 with EAX on, the sound is all distorted.  When
    I remove the option for EAX, the sound is normal, however, I lose the 
    ambient sounds.  Does the Turtle Beach card fully support EAX or is there
    something I need to do for Battlefield 2?

A:  Please have a look at this: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_6.html
    -  Turtle Beach products do NOT support EAX 3.0 or 4.0.
    -  They support A3D 1.0, EAX 1.0 and 2.0. 
    -  EAX versions 3.0 and higher are proprietary, available only on 
       Sound Blaster (Creative Labs) products. 
    -  EAX is an analog feature only and it is not available through digital
       out.

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World of Warcraft: (audio clicks, pops)
Q:  My Turtle Beach card works like a champ except for in World Of Warcraft.
    I get audio clicks and pops, it's truly random and makes no difference 
    what form of output I use. Whether it's analog, spdif/48 or DDL out thru
    spdif. Any suggestions? 


A:  If the only problem that you are experiencing has to do with the World of
    War Craft, you may want to check the audio settings in the game itself. 
    There may be something in there you need to adjust. Also, please make sure
    that there are no other installed devices sharing system resources with 
    the Turtle Beach card. 

    You may want to check the game maker's web site to see if they have any
    suggestions for settings that need to be made to avoid this problem. Also,
    if you have anything running in the background that is locking up the PCI
    bus, this may also cause the problem that you are experiencing.

    See if this happens all the time or if it happens intermittently. 
    For instance, when the game makes a large cache hit, ie uses the Hard
    Drive a lot. If this is the case, then your System might need Optimization
    or simply you need a faster system. Sorry. Gamers usually build their 
    systems around the games for performance benefit. 

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World of Warcraft:
Q:  I started playing world of warcraft. I am using the Turtle Beach option 
    to replace my soundstorm motherboard based sound that I used to use. 
    While playing I randomly get short bursts of loud feedback sounding noise
    that screeches on the speakers. I have a 3ghz athlon barton, a radeon 9800
    pro, 1 gig of ram running at 400mhz, windows XP. I very much like the
    sound quality when this is not happening so I hope we can resolve this 
    issue.

A:  If the sound card works in all instances except this one, then there is no
    problem with the sound card itself. You may need to change an audio option
    within the WOWC game itself. You may also wish to visit Blizzard's web
    site to see if there are any tech notes or patches available for the 
    problem that you are experiencing.

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Games and 5.1 Speaker Configuration:
Q:  If I select a 5.1 speaker configuration in a game like Half-Life 2, the 
    AC3 stream will contain the 5 channels just as if I was using the analog
    outputs (front, back, center and subwofer) but through S/PDIF (which is 
    why im interested in the card). 

A:  As long as the game you are playing supports an AC-3 stream in the API 
    there is no problem. If it does not, you can use the analog outputs and
    adjust the audio properties accordingly within the games' audio options.
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