For anyone that cares about in-game audio (Vista users)
Realtek 3D Soundback
If you have Vista (32 or 64) and a realtek audio driver, you may want to check this out. This utility "restores audio effects, including surround, reverbaration and spatial effects while running Legacy game titles on Vista" I tried it on FEAR, COD4 & WAW, Quake 4 and Doom 3 and noticed a pretty marked improvement (haven,tried on CA). It's very unobtruvise, after installation, just open it and enable the games you want it to apply to. Here's a link to the files, as I couldn't get them to upload.
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