I fail to see how it could be a driver problem when it worked JUST FINE THE DAY BEFORE.
There are only three things that would really make a driver fail:
1). The Program you're trying to run was changed.
2). The Driver File(s) got corrupted.
3). Hardware failure.
What's the chances of #2 or #3 happening to multiple people all at the same time? Next-to-none. Therefore, it would almost always be #1. And also, with #2 and #3, this means that most likely, ALL programs would cease to function normally, right? So, if I got 1 game, and only 1 game that is screwing up, and the ONLY thing that changed, was this patch, then.... d'oh, something they did in the patch messed it up. Rocket Science, much?
Each and every person with this problem said:
"Blizz, my sound worked perfectly before the patch, and now it doesn't work right (or at all)."
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce the fact that Something in the Patch absolutely screwed the works up.
Driver files rarely go bad by themselves; if it works Today, it should work Tomorrow unless a file got corrupted. But how often do driver files get corrupted? Let me tell you: The chances the Patch screwed something up far, far, far outweighs the chance that multiple people got corrupted driver files. Especially when it happens _the same day the patch was released_.
99.99% Chance the Patch screwed it up.
00.01% Chance That all of those users posting in the 2.4 Audio Issues thread had corrupted driver files.
Gee, I wonder....
I'm not a beginner computer user. I have made my own computers for years now, and I know how driver files work. If you change the Audio Processing coding within a piece of software and several people suddenly have Audio Problems, then.. *gasp* Something you did is not agreeing with their systems.
That makes it *your* fault. Plain and simple.
That, and some of the people said "I did a driver update!" And Blizz continued to tell people "Update your Drivers" while we were going "Um, we did that already."
So, in the future, there's a really easy way to look at this:
If you are a developer, and you release a patch and suddenly, multiple people are having Audio, or Video issues, then it is most likely something you put in that patch. Especially if they tell you it worked fine the previous day.
The chances that a few dozen people (the few dozen who posted on o-boards) all came down with a corrupted driver file in one day is a very slim chance, more slim than getting hit by a bolt of lightning.
