Bizarre sound issues in Unreal Tournament.

[Scathe]

I recently reformatted/reinstalled my primary drive; it's something I do every six months to a year as I'm sure many of you do. This time around, however, I've been getting a bizarre echo/distortion effect when playing Unreal Tournament. The music and SFX are jittery and distorted, but only when in the UT shell. If I Ctrl+Esc to Windows, I can hear the music clearly. Anyone had any experience with this before? Suggestions welcome...
PS- This problem does not appear in any other game on my system, and I have tried reinstalling UT from multiple discs with the same problem manifesting.
TIA-
Scathe

Specs:
Celeron 1.1GHz 100MHz bus w/ AlphaPep 66 fan
640MB RAM (2x256, 1x128) PC 133
GeForce 2 64mb 4Xagp
NIC 10/100 (PCI)
SB PCI 128
Asus TUV4X board (Socket 370)
realmagic dvd decoder
pci parallel card
--less important--
6x dvd (samsung) 32x cdread
16x12x40 yamaha cdr
40 GB WD 7200
60 GB WD 7200
floppy 1.44, of course
(DirectX 8.1)

[Scathe]

I had a thought, but I need sleep before I try it out. I was wondering what you guys would think. I have 640MB of memory installed on this system. Since I'm running 98SE, do you think that could be part of the issue, since 98/ME apparently encounters trouble running more that 512? Just a thought. Goodnight.

Scathe

[MrOOBiLL]

Probably the memory won't mess with the sound, but a new OS would probably fix the problem :D Make sure UT doesn't have surround sound enabled, although it shouldn't be by default... The problem might be to do with your sound card's configuration, make sure its configured properly for your speakers. Just some things to try out...

[Scathe]

Well, taking the mem chip out didn't help. The sound's still garbled and stuttery. Argh.

[el]

need to reinstall the sound drivers. You are using the onboard sound. this same thing happened to me and took me a while to figure out. reinstall dx after you install the sound driver to make sure everything will work okay.

[Scathe]

I'm not sure I follow, El. A little more detail...?

[redduc900]

Scathe, did you read my reply to your post in "Video and Soundcards"?

http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?threadid=53667

...and did you apply the settings I mentioned? And if so, what were the results?

[Jmichael484]

yes i have the exact same problem but since i dont really do much in the shell i dont care cuz in the game the quality's fine, what sound card do you have? i got a SB live 5.1

[Morba]

have u just upgraded to winXP by any chance ???

if so get the newer XP drivers instead.