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Since a lot of people are having these problems and I see no sound posts in the official board (lol) I decided to post it myself. Let me assure you this is NOT a CA BASHING. First of all I really liked the demo. It's impressive. And I have no graphical problems or loading problems like those other people. What I'm experiencing are annoying cracks and pops. Let me start from the beginning: I own a Creative Xfi Fatal1ty and I run Vista x64. The first time I fired up the demo I noticed that it has a direct sound 3D setting (which is not supported by Vista). However, Creative's Alchemy can get around that so I exited the game, added ETW to Alchemy enabled games list and fired the demo again. Everything was fine until I got into a battle. Loud cracks and pops totally ruined the experience. So I figured, ETW is not Alchemy compatible. OK no problem, disabled alchemy and fired up the game again this time selecting Discreet 5.1. Got into a battle and oh my god. No marching sounds (drums and command shouts are OK). No charging sounds. I watched a battalion of grenadiers go into a bayonet charge in utter silence (other than gun sounds and music). What an immersive sight! Lol... Missing sound effects such as swords clanging. And... The Return Of The Mighty CracklePop lol Despite all this I enjoyed the absolutely terrific visuals and redesigned mechanics. So CA, fix this game before it's released or else this will be the only TW game I won't have (yes I own all of them)