[RRuger]

actually start by turning your sound off the incrementally add more features until it craps out again the back up a few steps. I spend so much of my time flying with head phones to keep wife happy that 5.1 or better is not needed. simple stereo is fine. remember in a real acft you wouldn't hear much excpet the engine and maybe your radio if it was new. most wwii pilots wore cigerette buts in their ears to help deaden the sound of the engine. At least that's what my father told me and he flew single and twin engine fighters.

The smokes (not lit) in the ears is true.

So Grom did it work? And did you start by reloading the drivers, for sound issues I think this the simgle most important place to start...