Quote Originally Posted by Puss_Kat View Post
Sound devices with bad/outdated drivers.
I can say I had a similar issue as they describe and it turned out that my motherboard, Asus, had installed their own sound app and drivers (Sonic Sound). I'm typically pretty picky about what I allow installed, but I wanted to try them. Once I uninstalled this additional sound control app the game worked fine.
And it may not be sound - it may other apps that are "fighting" for control and causing issues.