Sound disappears after a few minutes of gameplay

[Duppe]

After upgrading my pc i encountered this annnoying problem.
The game starts up just fine, but after a few minutes of gameplay the sound effects and music suddenly disappers. Other than that the game works fine.

After this error occurs it not only affects civ4, but all other programs in windows as well, and the only solution is to restart my pc.

I have tried adjusting sound settings in civ4 and windows, and updating the drivers, but no luck....

My hardware:

Asrock P55 Pro
Intel I5 3,2 Ghz
Geforce 8800 Gts
4 Gb DDR3 RAM
Windows Xp Home edition SP3


Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[zappara]

First time I hear about this kind of problem.. could you post logs from your game (audio log particularly) so I could take a look at them. See feedback threads for instructions how to enable BtS logging.

 

[Darken24]

i get the same thing though it only started happening about a week ago and i haven't downloaded anything new on RoM or any other civ 4 thing for about a month so i don't think it has anything to do with RoM

 

[Duppe]

I bought a new PCI-based soundcard and its working fine now. I still don't know what caused this in the first place.