So there are many sound issues people have with this game but this one I could not find a solution for.

It seems sounds are only playing in the immediate vicinity of MY CHARACTER.

What this means that any cutscene sounds far away (depending on character postion) and if I move the camera I hear nothig unless it's close to my character.

This is incredibly annoying.

The sound cuts off sharply as it goes away from him. Like there could be something going on 10 feet away and it sounds like it's down a hallway.

I have two sound cars, onboard and a asus xonar. The Xonar no matter if I tried eax on and off or changing to gaming sound on or off and turning gx on or off, none of this has effect.

I downloaded new drivers for both.

I used the onboard sound then and it does the same thing. No EAX option despite EAX 4.0 supposedly being supported by it. However I don't think EAX has anything to do with this issue.

Anyone have issues like this and get it fixed?