Title: lacking features I've enjoyed for a decade = a downgrade
Product review: I'm a gamer. I enjoy games like Thief, which make use of 3D sound. With Vista, they removed the DirectSound EAX functionality. This means that even if your hardware supports EAX (like the integrated RealTek stuff does), you'll get lousy stereo sound in these games. This is pathetic.If you want to go buy one of the shiny new Creative sound cards, you can use their proprietary application to restore EAX functionality. RealTek has a program called 3DSoundBack which is supposed to re-enable EAX on RealTek chips, but this program is at version 0.1 Beta and did absolutely nothing when I tried it.
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