Hi, I just switched to the Xonad Phoebus Solo, was using a Creative Recon3D previously (the constant sound chanel switching ruined my nerve, that's why I changed).
However, I encountered 3 Problems

1. The microphone (connected at the rear panel) sometimes acts rather strangely. I was told that it sounds like a helicopter at times.

2. The Lord of the Rings Online crashes when "Xear 3D EX" is enabled, it should provide hardware 3D sound effects, right? Only then the "generic hardware" is avaiable to select, but no matter if I select hardware or software, the game crashes after a few moments if I enter an area with EAX effects (best place to test it are the crafting halls in Moria, the reverb of the smithing hammers is quite distinctive).

3. When starting the game yesterday evening and this morning, it messed up the sound card driver, I only heared scratching and stuff through both headphones and speakers until I restarted the computer - even until I shut down the game.
Edit: I learned that the bug happens if a game allows to select a sound device for output and if the standard windows device is different from the selected device (Headphones selected ingame, speakers set as default in Windows). It also happenes in other games which allow to select a sound device.



Something else: Since I never ever want to use headphones and speakers at the same time ... is it possible to set the driver in a way that there is only ONE sound device avaiable for both (the Recon3D has that)? I mean: I would select the "Xonar Analog Output" then as main device and according to the setting in the control panel either speakers or headphones would be selected. Is that somehow possible? And if so, is it possible to map a hotkey combination to switch between headphones and speakers?