Popping and Crackling in Deus and UT???

[OneOfTheseDays]

i have a sb live platinum with the latest liveware 3 drivers. I notice that i get this popping and crackling with deusex and with unreal tournament. i see that this really only occurs with these two games. I am using headphones also (grado sr80's). i have tried switchin the slots on my platinum card and no luck. The popping occurs at any volume level, it is just louder when i set the volume higher. Is this a problem with the game or with my hardware. I have my headphones connected to the headphone output on the live drive btw.

 

[tboo]

Try enabling the "enable memory hole at 15-16M" option in your BIOS

 

[(Chanse)]

Now if it starts snapping too, you may have yourself a bowl of cereal, with a case full of elves