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Q. My sound cuts out or is choppy.
A. Turning off hardware acceleration may help. You can do that by following these steps.

1. Click on Start and Run
2. Type in DXDiag and hit Enter
3. Select the Sound tab and turn the hardware acceleration slider all the way to the left

Also check your hard drive for heavy fragmentation. Make sure that it is not fragmented by running defrag found in your system tools. This may take awhile but it will help sound and system performance.

Q. My sound cuts out and then my game crashed.
A. Try these 2 fixes

1. Open Program Files and Microsoft Games folder
2. Navigate the Age of Empires III folder to Sound and Music and then Standard
3. Right Click on the LeisurelyBrows.mp3 and go to properties
4. Toward the bottom of the menu uncheck the Read Only option and click on Apply and OK
5. You can also delete the LeisurelyBrows.mp3 if that does not work.

You can also try this

1. Open your My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Startup folder
2. Create a user.cfg file
3. Add the line +nosound or +nomusic save and exit
4. Play the game

This will turn off the music or the sound depending on which one you have added. This is a temporary work around and we looking into this issue.

Certain sound codecs will also cause issues on some systems. Check your third party codecs.