but it works if you choose a different sound option? what happens if you set it to soundblaster fx only or fm music only?

That happens with more than 16 MB of RAM. You can try to run it from Win9x, afaik it works then even with more RAM.

I have 16mb of ram.

@foil_fresh, there is no option to choose just one or the other.

I had the same problem on a p133 with 64mb ram, I can't remember exactly how I fixed it but it was sound card/driver related I remember I had to changed the irq and dma settings alot. eventually I found the right dos utility/driver to set irq 7 for me then edit synd.bat to use irq 7 and it works

Using the set blaster line in autoexec.bat wasn't fully working for syndicate however it worked for doom.

Have a look for your sound card dos drivers/utilities

disabling motherboard resources like unused com ports or usb can free up resources in case it's some sort of conflict

i once fixed inconsistent audio in some games by moving the card to a new slot so you could try that too

terrornoize wrote:

I have 16mb of ram.

@foil_fresh, there is no option to choose just one or the other.

and it's worked fine for me with 128mb ram and another computer with 512 so dont worry about that bit