Im glad to report that:

[Seeker]

It's a mixed blessing.

There were six guys on my squad night last night, and all could get on the SYN server (and off again!) with no problems, and while we saw either some amazing warps (or blatant print screening, does that still work?), by and large the flying was the smoothest so far.

But we all had sound problems, every one of us having to restart the game a couple of times through out the evening.

Now, most of my Squad are far from being Black Viper when it comes to Windows tweaking, it has to be said, but when such a wide range of HW, OS and config are hit by the same phenomenon then I think it's fair to say Clod is the culprit, and not some esoteric sound card driver issue.