pop click & static in background of SH3 game music

[jettaguy]

I am totally new to this SIM and genre of naval sims. It looks very good and I look forwar to getting into it. After I loaded it onto my fairly high-end Dell gaming system P4, Raden 9700, SB Audigy 2, I've notice an irritating poping clicking static like noise in the backgrounhd as I navigate around the game and during the intro movie.

I'm a pretty experineced SIM gamer with MODS etc and I use lots of fight and racing games and do not hear this in the other games I currently run...like CFS3, FB, GTR. I have dropped my sound card acceleration settings to virtullay "none" to no avail.
Is there a known conflict of some kind with something I can check on with this particular game. I can't think of anything radically out of the ordinary with my system. Lots of RAM, lots of processor speed, an MS flight stick Logitech a steering wheel, cable modem, nearby, Harmon Kardon speakers and the usual programs.....I think. Any ides?

Thank you new sub sim friends