I suggest that you do a search on my post about this issue Psugar and you will see I have teh exact same issue. The only thing that works with this game is either a fresh install of the game or the sound drivers. I've listed all of my testing and its clear that it is in fact something with the game.
I think I have narrowed down the issue. When Sins loads you have those two movies and than the splash screen with the Sins tag line. When that goes away and the menu attempts to load I can hear stuttering in the audio as if its trying to do something but either has to many things queued up or its trying to fast to execute audio while the sound system is being executed. Its not that my machine is holding anything back. 2.4 core duo with 2 gb of ram SATA drives 8800 GTS on an nvidia 680
If you could provide me the path to the file to ensure I perform this on the correct file I will do as instructed.
This game and only this game has issues when the audio subsystem is executed. The intro movie sound works just fine but once the main menu loads all sound starts to crackle. I've read all the suggestions, about bloom, etc etc. None of it works. Audigy s zs up-to-date drivers. All other games, WoW, COD4, supreme commander, CIV, Unreal work fine. I've read about the k-lite codec pack and that it may cause iss
