I recently came back to FFXI and still had the game installed, but bought all the new expansions I didn't have and updated the game... I have never had any trouble running this game until now... My sound just completely stops working and then weird things would happen...and then it would crash and need to be restarted...but after restarting the game it would work fine and then the sound would go out again. .and the whole cycle would restart itself... but my husband who also plays the game put FFXI on the other computer and the same thing will happen to him!!