While playing SA the game cuts out certain sounds, for example while a car chase is occuring and the passengers are shooting sound effects like tyres squeeling or people screaming are cut out, only the gun fire is heard. When the firing stops the ambiant noises resume. Could this be a problem caused by a dated sound card, also this doesnt seem to occur in other games. Thank you.
P.S if this is a problem with the sound card, whats a good card to buy? Thanks again.
Regards,
Dan

Found this one patch but am uncertain if it pertains to your issue:

Issue on all machines where certain collisions caused parts of the audio system to crash (sound effects, cutscene audio - only radio keeps going) - users know this as "Rain / Thunderstorm bug".

http://www.gta-sanandreas.com/forums...audio+problems

http://www.gta-sanandreas.com/

My Problem is similar to this. When I first start the game all the audio works fine, you can heard everything shortly after playing I say probably a half hour to an hour, the sound starts cutting out then it's completely gone, other than the radio, but strangely enough the cutsceenes all have sound, I just can't hear any sounds when I'm not in the car.

I found some help on this topic here:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showforum=137

it says to downgrade directx from 9.0c to 9.0b, I don't know how to do this I have a program called directx eradicator but it only unistalls directx I believe.

any help would be appreciated thanks.