The vestigial Use Hardware sound option

This pisses me off. wow gold for sell This was not "vestigial."

Blizzard screwed over audio hardware acceleration users back in 2.2, when they implemented the new audio engine. They didn't enable hardware audio acceleration, despite the fact that the audio engine supported it. They claimed they "couldn't get it working."

Creative Labs reached out, and offered to get it working for them. They didn't answer. Players started complaining because the new audio engine was seriously f!#$ked up for surround sound users. Sound quality was terrible, loud sounds were now soft, quiet sounds were now overpowering, many sound effects were missing, sometimes sound effects would just be dropped. buy cheap wow accounts Sound channels would switch around.

It took a petition from players, and asking Creative Labs to help (they contacted Blizzard again, and again offered) before Blizzard took them up on it, and got it fixed.

There are people still using hardware audio, Blizzard! And to get it working in Windows Vista/Windows 7 only takes downloading the Creative ALchemy program (which was designed for things like this), using it, and setting WoW to Windows XP-compatibility mode.

The only excuse they could have for removing it is if they would implement the newer Microsoft standard for audio acceleration, but considering they called hardware audio acceleration "vestigial", I doubt it.