FEAR crappy sound in vista xfi fatali

I have the latest xfi driver & alchemy,but the sound in FEAR is really crappy,with distortions & sound skipping & the level is really low.Anyone know how to fix this Are there any alternate 3rd party drivers I can use Any help would be great ;( vista 32 ultimatecore 2 duo E6600asus striker extreme moboasus 8800 gtxxfi fatality2gb 667raptor

The distortion/skipping (at least in part) is just a setting in ALchemy that you need to change. Im fairly sure I had to add FEAR manually to ALchemy to install it in the first place, but I did so after doing a manual install quite some time ago where I played around with the settings. In your FEAR directory, open up the file called "dsound.ini" (double-clicking it should open it in Notepad automatically). Change the value for "Duration" from 25 to 0 (the line should now read "Duration=0"). That should solve most the stuttering, unless youve got problems akin to many other users of these forums, which I dont personally have.
If the dsound.ini file is not in the directory than ALchemy has not been properly installed for FEAR - you may need to manually install it (just add it to ALchemy - settings should be 4 Buffers, 0 Duration, 28 Maximum Voice Count, and you can leave Direct Music enabled). Interesting to note that Half-Life 2 requires a similar setting, as do some other games, so if youre having problems elsewhere it might be worth checking this setting for them as well (so far the only values Ive had to use are 25 and 0).
As for the volume levels, thats just FEAR in my experience. Speech was relatively quiet on XP Pro with an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, and its still relatively quiet under Vista x64 Ultimate with an X-Fi Fatalty.

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