ok, so my issues might have been caused by me having 2 soundcards in my PC, the onboard realtec and my X-fi internal card, ill go into BIOS tonight and disable the realtec card, ive been told do disable EAX manually in my profile as well, so ill do that, then see if i can open audoi and turn off the #%&*$# loud music, and see if i can connect to a game without a CTD...