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Bruss, I noticed you didn't list "funny guy" under your name. Are you not funny?

I got bored and decided to take the image you used (of a bridge in New York... you're from Germany...) and well...

It's corrupted files or driver issues. You have a modern GPU so it's not a lack of features (shaders or whatever) on your card. If you can play Oasis (it also has an AGP_Sun actor) then you should be fine with mAAp Pipe.

If hes wanting just to game its the best reasonable solution out there.

Ehhhhh. There's no need for ANY of the X-Fi software though. Windows has built-in mixer and volume controls and that's all anyone needs. Clean, pure and minimal signal path is more important. When you're running the audio through extra chips and processors (software or hardware) you're handling the audio more than it needs to be. I've had the X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty card and I don't miss any of it's features (including the buggy drivers). Environmental audio in game engines is rendered in real time on the CPU these days that's why most all new games don't mention EAX or X-Fi. I've said it before & I'll say it again, EAX doesn't improve quality, they're filters and settings that might make things sound more realistic (reverberation, delay & decay) but ONLY if the developers used them properly (more often than not, AA devs didn't).

Lol what ever u say,  all I'm sayn I use just the g35 headset and there an awesum headset,  I use to have creative sound blaster sound card with the razar barcuda headset, and I didn't notice no difference between the 2. So I stuck with just the headset

Not much difference between deer shit and sheep shit eh?

Samsung 840 is a low end drive. Stick with the 830 or get the 840 Pro. Better speeds and should be better reliability.

I like AMD for budget performance, just be sure to get a 8+2 power phase (count the black/grey squares to the left of the socket on the motherboard, there should be 10).

I've said all I needed to on the sound. My knowledge (not opinion) is shared among other audio enthusiasts. Kicker is stepping into that but I still say, X-Fi is over-rated and waste of money.

re download the game, lots of ppl with corrupt install, strange

Not corrupt. T-Windows was changed to fix a transparent texture that blocked smoke from being seen.

Ignore wickid. Logitech has few audio products worthwhile, the only one I've seen that looks good on paper is this:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Transporter%C2%AE-SE-Network-Player/dp/B0011YZ1R6
That's not exactly something you would use on a PC to play games.


Back to reality, stay away from Logitech and anything branded Fatal1ty. Both are hyped to gamers with aesthetics such as molded plastic and LED lights. Fatal1ty branded products aren't "bad" but the only thing they do is fill Jonathan Wendel's pockets with cash. The real question here is, do you want to be a typical AA player (sound whore, distorting realistic sounds to have bloated ear-damaging highs just to hear enemy at unrealistic distances) or do you want to hear things as intended?

I'll guess and say you want the latter; quality. What you really need is a good DAC and a sound card with a headphone amplifier. The X-Fi is great for screwing with equalizers but has low quality components onboard and no headphone amp, just regular headphone output. To get the most out of headphones (even IEM's) you generally need an amp. That ASUS Xonar D2 looks good but I can't help but feel it's overkill and is geared more towards home theater setups. If you're looking at that price range, maybe check out the ASUS Xonar Essence STX:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/421890/the-xonar-essence-stx-q-a-tweaking-impressions-thread
There's also HT Omega Claro cards that have great reviews.

But, if you're not going to go the home theater route, it doesn't make much sense to pay for all those features. There's other solutions as well. The NuForce products have been pretty popular and they're a no frills type. There's all kinds of ways to go. Maybe lurk around here for a while:
http://www.head-fi.org/f/46/computer-audio
There's a lot of setups and reading about products other people like might help you find a direction that suits you best.

It's your World Detail setting in-game, you lowered quality. I set the trees to disappear if the quality level was set lower, to try and raise FPS. I guess I forgot to deselect that tree. Same for the antenna.

It's in the Advanced section of the actor properties of the editor. bHighDetailOnly and bSuperHighDetailOnly.

Don't worry about the room, it's where the cameras go when they get disabled.

Tutorials for what?