Hi, I guess you are right with the operating system I still remember how P.... i was when I bought a notebook with vista, Supreme speed of processing and other bullshit, the fun cost was quite big, and then I found out that 85% of all things which I was using are no more compatible in it and I had to let go of that Idea. Stupid notebook was designed to work with the f.... Vista so after I reinstalled it xp I could utilise all the futures of the thing so in the end i changed it back to Vista. I use the sh.. for torrents and bussiness travels. Afterthat I bought myself a FINE desktop with xp and no MF is going to persuade me to change to 'Newer' Windows. Billy gator is old school, the kid doesnt care about its consumers and basicaly his company releases shit and ass gas just to steal your money.
You have a relatively new system so expect to be incompatible for few months with a lot of things. Hopefully they didnt do it on purpose as with Vista, but it felt good hearing how the jerks had to pay nice money on courts due to all the suppliers which programs and equipment were on-purpose-made to be refused by Vista.
Basicaly you can:
Check device manager for deviations.
Check if there is no drive update to the controler for your audio.
Check the same for your graphic card - on some developers these two are linked quite closely and are dependant one on the other.
Check your sound setting withing the system....
just for insurance
Download K-lite or other multi codec programs, in some games the files simply cant be recognised by the system - low possibility but still worth the try.
Dont have more ideas at this time, but maybe R@S would know if it can be caused by something in the game.
cya