Have you tried turning sound realism up in the controls? I've got an A3D
card (Turtle Beach Montego) and it's worked fine since they put the 3d
sound in in beta 4. I haven't updated my drivers since then either. The
realism control in the game defaults to half way IIRC.

On Tue, Feb 01/00, "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...> wrote:
> From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
>
> Sigh. Every time I hear something like this it reminds me how little
> support you get from Verant. I have an A3d card which Verant claims is
> supported. However, I do not hear the sounds mobs make outside of combat.
> That's right, no howling wolves, no chittering beetles, and more importantly
> no stomping giants. Every giant in the game can sneak right up on me and
> pound away to his heart's content. It was 3 months before I even knew I
> wasn't hearing these sounds till a friend started complaining about all the
> druids running around howling. He came over and listened to my system and
> was shocked. Needless to say Verant's support was terrible. They had three
> suggestions. Get the latest drivers. Done no change. Turn down Hardware
> Acceleration. Done, no change. Get an SBLive card. ??? They say the card
> I have is not only supported, but tested to work as well? Anybody else have
> these problems? Another guildmate of mine has a different A3d card and it
> works fine. His is from a secondary manufacturer and mine is from A3d.
> You'd think he would be the one with the problem?
>

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