GTA Vice City, choppy / sound issues [audigy drivers] [audigy 2]

Q: My friend has a Pentium 4 (2.4 533fsb), Platinum and Geforce TI 4800SE 128MB. I think his system is plenty good enough to play this game at 1024×726x16. However, when the sound is playing the game turned extremely slow and choppy. So far we have removed video drivers, ran Driver Cleaner, installed latest Detsen, installed latest , defragged, tried the v1.1 patch, all to no avail. Is there anyone out there with this same problem of the sound conducting gameplay?


Re:thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them and see how they work out.

Re:I ran it on an nForce machine and had the same symptons, either limited/quiet/slow audio or no sound at all. A quick "fix" (not solution) is to knock down the audio device's hardware acceleration a notch or two — I ended up having to go to 'basic' acceleration. You'll lose out on some of the 3D features but it'll be playable, at least until you can figure out a better, hopefully better solution.

Re:I'm running at 1280 rez with max everything AND AA and AI and only notice slowdowns when it's raining and lots of stuff is on screen. I used to have slowness when changing stations and getting into cars, but a no-CD patch fixed that right up. (Requires full install though.)

Re:I had this problem when I was using my m-audio revolution to play. That card didn't support hardware ds3d and any other options were software and strangely led to major slowdowns. I popped my santa cruz back in, set to hardware ds3d and there is no more slowdown at all, and this is on a GF3Ti200. Solution should be to enable hardware ds3d in the audio section.

Re:Yea I am.
But it is occational. However I figured its because I have an older computer. AMD 1.33GHz, 512MB PC2100, SB Live! Value, Geforece2 GTS, …
I'm running at 800×600 16 bit color. I've only noticed the sound getting choppy on a couple videos (the ones right before you go on a mission) and when there is a lot of action going on.
Did your friend install the COMPLETE game? If not, try that.
Sorry, thats all I can think of.

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