Half Life 2 has a known problem the manu has been working to fix. Google and
you will find several sites detailing the problem.
You are not alone in this problem.

Barry

"Les Matthew" wrote in message
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DaveW wrote:
True. You need to buy a decent PCI sound card to relieve the audio load
in
those games off the CPU.

I'm sure i read somewhere that Doom3 sound is handled entirely by
the cpu.

les...