shameless bump I'm still getting this problem, i lose all ambient sounds in certain areas, all i hear is very loud, "echo-ish", footsteps. It's almost creepy Windows 7 64 with creative X-Fi titanium if that helps (yes the drivers are up to date )

i have the same problems as you OP. had these problems since beta, sent plenty of tickets about it. The game can be so nice at times, when i have the ambient sounds, the music, the cinematics/voice over all at once, it gets pretty epic but then i will start having the ambient sounds loop or vanish, same with music...i really wish there was continuous music too ... but the worse, the very worse is when i lose all of it except the sound of my footsteps, no sound at all, just footsteps with a bit of echo to it, it sounds terrible. huge immersion breaker for me but i just hope they can fix it or whatever

well, not sure i'll find anyone but what the heck... pre-NGE player, co-founder of <REV> and the city of Revena, Corellia Rebels <REV> Zig Master Doctor/Master Rifleman

not sure if i can be categorized as a vet but i guess you can say i'm one of the old school pre-NGE folks, played for about a year and a half from launch <REV> Zig Master Doc/Master Rifleman server : Sunrunner

title should be changed to "guide for people who never ever switched games before and/or ONLY played WoW" on a personal note, there's nothing magical about switching games, you try something different, you expect something different and usually end up getting something different, end of story. If you don't want to change or don't "feel" like trying something different then you don't... simple as that it means you're happy where you are. It shouldn't be a chore to do "the switch", you should embrace it, it's part of the journey. just like when "we" switched from "X" game to WoW

AMEN to that