Also check your soundcard's hardware acceleration settings. For some games you will need to drop it down a notch or two or even turn it off completely. Direct X was fairly sloppy in its coding for Direct Sound and how it interacts with hardware acceleration.
Aside from that, the next most likely source of your trouble is a conflict between your sound card and another piece of hardware, usually the video card. Updating or rolling back your drivers for the sound card, video card, and even your motherboard may fix the trouble but you may need to relocate the sound card to a different slot as it may be sharing some of the same system resources as the video card in its current position.
Slot #4 is usually the best place for the sound card as it shares few, if any, resources with other hardware critical to gaming.
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