BF3 poor audio quality with Dolby Digital Live anabled.

Hello, i have a X-Fi Fatality card connected to audio receiver with the Toslink cable with the Dolby Digital Live enabled, and in BF3 i hear that bullets sounds more like popcorn crack very low quality, with BF2 the audio was awesome. Anyone else having the same problem?

There are several Fatality cards - which one do you have? OS is Win7 i guess? So which driver are you using? Did you try Danial_Ks Support Pack? [url=http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-series-Support-Pack-2-5-10-25-2011/td-p/587995">http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-series-Support-Pack-2-5-10-25-2011/td-p/587995[/url] . You also installed newest patch for BF3?

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