Age of Empire lagging whenever background music changed

[raytang_c]

Hello
I have built a new system with Athlon Xp 1800+, 512M DDR Ram and Geforce 3 128M. 2 hard disks
hook up to onboard RAID with total 80G.
I tried to play an old game "Age of Empire" and
thought my system should be way beyond what the
game required. However the game pause/lag whenever
background music change. I am only playing
single player, not on LAN. Could anybody help?

-raytang_c

[tony_j15]

that is weird. A few things you could do.

1) turn off music

2) update sound drivers

[raytang_c]

Thanks Tony_j15
I have tried turn off the sound in the game's
option menu and the game run smoothly. I have
looked at my sound card driver and it is the most
uptodate.

Then I turn on the sound and the game still pause
whenever background song changing from one to
another. The pause last about 3 seconds whenever
song changing and it is very annoying. Does anyone
know why??
-raytang_c