I found the problem! I noticed that quake 3 was not the only program that experienced this problem, then remembered I had recently played the PC version of Second Sight, for which I had to turn off my hardware acceleration for my audio card (The game has problems with onboard cards, If you dont turn...

I did manage to get a download of the drivers from dell.

It's a SigmaTel Audio version 5.10.5067.0

Confirmed, I AM running 1.32c

Anyway I can check my current version?

oh, and I just got the latest drivers, but they dont seem to help at all.

I do have 1.32c

What is PR 1.32c?

I will try messing with those commands and see if that helps.

EDIT: the commands dont seem to help at all. I cant update the drivers for my soundcard as they are system onboard, and the manufacturer does not offer drivers.

Hey, Whenever I try to run Quake III Arena, the sound is out of sync with the game, for instance when I fire a weapon, it takes about 3 seconds for the gunshot to play. Even in the menu, when I click a button, it takes a few seconds to play. Any ideas on what this could be?