Hey everybody, I was having this issue too but I've been having some luck hopping over to Task Manager after starting the game and setting Priority for the process to BelowNormal. I'm no scientician but after doing some reading I guess that the high CPU utilization was borking some audio processing so I made it back off enough for things to function. The game is not without occasional hitches now (usually when walking around) but combat and audio works okay for me. Let everyone know if it works for you.
