[Mobhack]

As Pyros says by following those threads, you should be able to figure out where your problem lies.

But my best guess is a sound card that cannot handle multiple MP3 streams, or a CODEC that is messing with MP3.

First:
Turn off the game mouse click sound, on the game Options misc tab (Mouse interface click to OFF).
Now enter the main game screen and go to the PREFERENCES screen and deselect BOTH sound options (battle FX and sound FX).

Now, if your problems have gone away, your problem is sound related. Either a sound card that cannot hack multiple MP3 sound streams at once, or a CODEC problem.

If this is so - there is a link to a set of the battle sounds in WAV format somewhere on this site, and also Don's instructions as to how to convert the MP3 to WAV format using goldwave. Using WAV format helps some people whose sound card has these problems (at the expense of larger disk footprint for the WAV files).

After the conversion, you will need to convert the sounds.ini file (our game does not use embedded code, so changing sound files is a matter of editing an INI file only). There may be a copy of sounds.ini for WAV, but all you really need do is open sounds.ini in a text editor and replace all .mp3 items in the INI with .wav, basically.

I think the messages for that process are in one of those threads Pyros mentioned.

(And of course - if your problems have not gone away - it may be something else, like not having a graphics card that is powerful enough, or having out of date drivers etc).

Cheers
Andy