Was wondering if anyone had a similar problem to what I’m experiencing, as it’s very weird.

Half-Life runs fine on my system as is, except for a peculiar issue: every so often I will get what seems to be tiny lag spikes, and as a result the audio will glitch out, stutter, and/or skip over itself. This is especially noticeable with long strings of dialogue ( the “they’re waiting for you, Gordon” scene and the tram announcer are the worst offenders so far for me).

My first thought was that it was a sound card issue, but this card has given me no trouble in any other games, including games that run worse than HL does like Deus Ex. It’s an AWE64 Value occupying an ISA slot, and I know that ISA cards aren’t a great fit for later Win9x gaming, but it’s puzzling to me that Half-Life and ONLY Half-Life gives me audio trouble. Any help would be appreciated.

My system specs are:

AB-BH6 1.0 motherboard w/ BIOS SS
Pentium III 933MHz, underclocked to 700 MHz
320MB PC100 RAM
GeForce MX-4000 GPU
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value