I bought this headset today - and like many others, I was utterly disappointed to find out the microphone recording level is way too low to be even useful for chatting in games. My team mates could not hear me and even setting every slider I could find to max did not help much. In Skype, people could hear me fine - they just kept asking me if I could turn the mic level up a notch - which I couldn't.
Then I found this driver update. I was very hopeful this would solve the "low microphone level" problem. Mind you, I wasn't using a driver for this headset at all (since it's simply a plug and play USB audio device). I had tested the drivers and Console Launcher application from the original disk though, but uninstalled them after coming to the conclusion they really didn't add anything of value for me.
Anyway, after installating the driver, everything sounded terrible. But I recognized it as the "EAX 3D" and X-Fi Crystalizer" filter. It sounded like these were suddenly switched on. So I also downloaded the Console Launcher and when I ran that, I indeed saw these two were switched on. When I switched them off, everything sounded normal again.
But the low microphone level problem still wasn't solved. In fact, I could not hear any difference at all - my teammates still couldn't hear me in games, and in VoIP apps, my voice was still very soft for the other side.
So add me to the list of "this driver update made no difference for me whatsover" people.
