UT2004 enhancement pack not that great, sound skipping

Question

I have a slight problem with this enhancement pack. In general i like the new sounds very much, they are more detailed and punchier, but problem is that half of sounds is just skipped. And it's very annoying when you just don't hear any fire sounds from rifles, especially machine gun and pulse gun (plasma gun) are extremelly sensiti've to this, though lightning gun tends to "lose" the sound too. Basically all weapons do, just these above do it more often.
I have X-Fi Xtreme Music, using latest drivers 2.09.000, have installed latest OpenAL driver, all options are correctly set in UT2004 (HW+EAX, reverse unchecked, System Driver unchecked).
I also checked UT2004.ini and it has 20 voices enabled. Thing that bothers me is "channels" setting which is set to 24. What is this setting meant for?
Also how can i get this sound skipping(missing sounds) problem fixed?
Thx

Answer 1

Soundblaster are total losers. Their latest driver didn't change anything since the last one which is almost a year ago. I sent an email to the tech support and since he was too dumb to give me any answers, he pretended that my warrenty was outdated so he couldn't help me... whatever god****it. Sound doesn't crack but keep skipping in EVERY recent OpenAL games such as Quake 4, Prey, UT2004 "with new patch". Here is what I wrote:
Hello, since I'm a fan of Unreal Tournament, I've downloaded the "enhencement" patch from Soundblaster a few houres ago here. soundblaster.com/products/x-fi/technology/ut2004/
Like always, soundblaster always make things appear like if they were godlike. The description is totaly fake. Here is what I gotta say about it:
- FPS Improvement? Didn't notice anything better since I was already pretty over 60fps and I doubt that it's a huge improvement anyway.
2- There is no such things about hearing bullets falling on the ground. I don't know if they take us for idiots but all they did is modify the sound of the primary fire from the Minigun to make it look like if we could hear falling bullets.
3- They only modified weapon sounds and for those that are diffrent, they are extremly worse.
4- There is nothing that feels more surround "I have a Creative Inspire T7700 7.". From the test that I've done, they only made the weapon sound louder to make it feel like if it would be in surround. You would already hear them from diffrent channels before but since they weren't as loud it was not as evident.
5- I was starting to think with Quake 4 and a little also with Prey, that it was developpers of games that were too dumb to make a working OpenAL but now when I use OpenAL on this new patch of UT2004, it bugs just like Quake 4 so it looks like the dumb*ss is soundblaster. You can clearly notice sound skipping/cutting when firing with double assault riffle and few other weapons.
6- In the UT2004.ini if you change the default "Channel = 24" to 28, you get no sound at all. Then if you put it at 64, it just seem worse than 24 so how the hell are we suppose to get 28 voices with this new patch?! Before that patch, I had no problem in 64 though 64 sounded the same as 32.
7- The dynamic music seemed to be a cool feature on "papers" but in-game it is acctualy just annoying. Yes we can disable it but why the hell haven't soundblaster made a checkbox in the option? Messing in console with commands is annoying and impossible for the novice user.
8- All the above lead me to wonder if we ABSOLUTLY need an X-Fi WITH X-Ram in order to have no issue. Even though Quake 4 is as buggy with or without X-Ram.
Please I'd like to have some feedback/answers to this. Thanks in advance.