I have XP Pro and can install both X-Wing Alliance and the update fine, but the music suddenly starts to skip at random moments. It's the only game I own that this happens to. The only way to fix it is to exit the game and restart. As you can imagine, this kinda sucks for immersion. There is also the issue of the text being a bit visually whack during missions, but I can stand that at the moment; I REALLY want to fix the music problem! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What soundcard do you have? And what quality sound have you got the game set to? AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz 1GB RAM 120GB HDD SATA GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm Pioneer DVD/RW ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard

I don't have a seperate soundcard; my motherboard IS my soundcard (latest drivers installed). The quality of the sound is set to Normal, with 16 channels, 3D sound Off. I'm pretty sure this was an issue even when I had a sound blaster installed a while back.

Have you downloaded the latest patch for the game from the lucasarts website? I seem to remember they did quite a big update for it, part of which may be your sound issues fixed. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz 1GB RAM 120GB HDD SATA GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm Pioneer DVD/RW ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard

Yes, I've installed the latest patch. From experimentation, it seems to be connected either with the overall processing power of my PC or the very speed of the HD it's installed on itself.

I notice you haven't got SP2...any reason? It could be a windows glitch. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz 1GB RAM 120GB HDD SATA GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm Pioneer DVD/RW ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard

Not only do I know for a fact that having Service Pack 2 does not fix this problem, but everytime I have ever installed SP2 on any system I have ever had, stability went out the window. I know many people who are either PC-philes or work in the IT field, and they all tell me SP2 is a nightmare -- one that Microsoft in all their brilliant stupidity requires you to install in a business environment. I ain't a business environment. The same can be said of the .NET Framework, although the effects aren't quite as bad. Unfortunately, I need .NET for some things I do. b---tard Microsoft.