I would try to talk in games, but nobody would hear me. I used the windows voice recorder thing and it seemed to work fine, but as soon as I tried it in CS or BF2, it wouldn't work. I would go to the microphone setup things that they have for each game and test my mic there. After talking to myself for a while (my voice was kinda quiet and would echo and I could also hear static), I would hear a loud sound through my headset that seemed to loop over and over again, getting louder and louder each time. Everything worked flawlessly with onboard sound. I did some googling and checked the Creative forums, and I guess it's a known issue with that card, but Creative just ignores everyone and refuses to do anything about it. Also, for some reason, the Platinum and Gamer editions of the card don't seem to have a problem. I read a few things that said it might have something to do with USB headsets... and I also read a few other "solutions," but nothing works. I tried to get it to work for over a week, and I finally got tired of trying to fix it and decided to spend the extra $45 and get the X-Fi. It better be worth it...