My vote is #2. It has the highest sound quality on my system (#3 sounds tinny) and, unlike #1, clearly audible "pilot feedback" sounds (hits on the airplane, wheel touchdown, stall buffet). It could still use some work -- I would like the volume on gear movement, wheel touchdown, taxi "rattle" and stall buffet turned up some more on all aircraft -- not because it is realistic, but because it tells me things I need to know that I would normally feel (without having to look).

I don't have the eardrumsplitten AAA explosions, sonar sound, or distant gunfire sound issues that some have reported.

My sound card is an SBLive Value with the latest Creative Drivers and EAX turned off.

I'd put my hand up for #2 as well, #3 sounds much less rich and vibrant - sort of flat whereas with #2 you get to hear a lot more of the cues from your own aircraft. SBLive 5.1 DE with a Cambridge 4.1 speaker set.

Cheers,
Stonehouse

Two of you using SB Live Value, but which operating system? I'm still on 98se and as far as I can tell the most up to date sound drivers are still a few years old.

Has anybody noticed differences in between the .dlls from the leaked beta, and #2?

They date both October the thirteen, but the latter is one hour earlier...

A.

XP Home here.

I didn't realize that the upgrade would reduce the visual shake, but it sure does. I was preferring the #3 dll tenatively since it seems to not have have some of the timing flash/gun/ffb glitches for the planes I was having that problem with, like the P-47, P-39, Hurricane, and some other Allied planes.

Sorry should have added Win2kPro SP2

I had problems with #3 flying a g6as firing 30mm cannon it seemed to echo the sound after releasing the trigger, both files I can still hear outside but not nearly as loud as before and the big bang from the ship gun isnt very loud anymore.