Quicktime and Audigy Series Audio Woes

Question

Recently, a growing number of people over at the Ambrosia Software webboard have noticed problems when running Escape Velocity Nova on their PCs. EV Nova uses Quicktime for much of its sound and images, as the game was originally developed for the Macintosh.
The problem we have is specifically related to the game's theme music, which is stored as an MP3 file and played through Quicktime. When running Quicktime 7.1 on a system with a Creative Labs Audigy series sound card, the title music will exhibit a number of anomalies: Playing at odd rates, stuttering, crackling, etc.
This problem does not occur with Quicktime 7.0.3 installed.
Furthermore, I have also noticed that the Halo 3 announcement video, which uses the AAC Audio codec, also has the same problems under the same scenario. In this case, the audio is still problematic under 7.0.3.
In all cases, none of these problems occur with any other sound device that I know of.
My question is, what is going on that is causing these problems? More importantly, how can we fix it, or will Apple and/or Creative have to update their software?
For that matter, is there anywhere that we can still download Quicktime 7.0.3 or 7.0.4?

Answer 1

This problem was solved for Audigy series sound cards with a recent Creative driver update. The Live! series cards haven't received an update yet, so the issue remains for them.