I seem to have a problem with the backgorund music in Sim City 3000. The music starts up ok when I load Sim City. But when I try to mess the volume of the music lever in the Preferences window, there's this constant rythmic cracking sound. And when I start a new town to select a new terrain, the cracking sound starts up again and continues endlessly. Why's this? I have a hunch the XA files are corrupted?

When I played this game, I did not have much programs up. Only Netgear, EZ Firewall, and some small invisible processes that can only be seen in the Task Manager. I've checked and my CPU Usage next rises past 5% before playing Sim City 3000. During Sim City 3000, it rises to about 56% last time I checked.

Any help is appreciated! I use Windows 2000 by the way and I have checked that my sound card is working properly because my MP3s all play fine.