Crackling/Popping in Rome Total War - Could it be chipset heat? (Audigy 2

I'm posting this because I have a friend who just got a the same sound-card I have (Audigy 2 ZS) and has crackling/popping in a few games. What is surprising is she has crackling/popping in the same area of Rome Total War as I do. It's when you get in amoungst all the soldiers and the # of sounds and intensity is at its max.
So is it possible the crackling/popping is due to heat? I don't think it's the conflicting SATA issues I've read about since I have 2 Gig of RAM and my HD's aren't accessed during this part of the game. I also tried changing my PCI latency, but that did not help.
Thanks to everyone who takes the time discuss this.

I'm back - with a SOLUTION to the "ripped speaker like" sound problem when playing QUICKTIME! ! !
And somebody better tell --------- APPLE!!! I think.
OK - here it is.... I never really liked QUICKTIME anyway.So I went to this site and downloaded for really <EM>FREE</EM> - QUICKTIME ALTERNATIVEhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/QuickTime-Alternati've.shtml
Then before I installed it - I uninstalled Apple's QUICKTIME.
Then I installed QUICKTIME ALTERNATIVE.
And guess what? No sound distortion. And quicktime alternati've seems pretty cool.
So there's a rotten golden apple around - they have to fix there own problem - and CREATIVE should force them.
Happy? reply to the forum and tell me. :womanhappy:
Message Edited by joliett on 04-29-2006 04:26 AM

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