Sound glitch in PC games?

I have a problem with the sound while playing PC games on Vista 64 bit. I had the same problem on 32bit and the same problem with or with out my sound card. This problem is mostly happening in online play.

When I play some of my games like Gears of War or Crysis I get this weird sound effect. When I play Crysis online and there are 16 people in the server everything is fine. When I play with 32 people I can't hear all the sounds for some reason. At the time there are explosions going on somewhere, I can not hear my gun reload, footstaps, and other small sounds that I normally hear. Also, in Gears of War if there is a train going I can't hear the sound of it sometimes and sometimes I can't hear my gun! This is not normal....

If this is normal please let me know. Thank you. I am sorry for my spelling mistakes.

Hi,

You might want to check your sound settings in-game. What I think could be the problem is the amount of sound channels that can be played at the same time. If you have a cheapo sound card, the maximum of sound effects being played at the same time can be limited. But try the usual routine (update driver, uninstall and re-install sound card with newest drivers, check the sound card control panel for special settings...)

Hope you get that fixed :)

Cheers.