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Enhances environmental sound effects in older games like Half-Life or Doom 3 .
Windows XP/7 "retro" builds or users with failing onboard sound on an older motherboard with a PCI slot.
Marketed for high-fidelity audio, though critics note it often processes internally at 16-bit, which caused controversy.