[The General]

Playing games like MK3, MK2, UM3, etc the game framerate is terrible slow, i was thinking it was because my CPU is only pIII 600MHZ, but when i disable sound, the game runs over 60fps at near perfect speed.

Any advice on how to get around this?

I am using my integrated sound board, which has no hardware features, but i also have a PCI SoundBlaster Card in my Tower, which i can use with EAX 2.0 features and it hardware features, but that doesn't solve the problem.

I turn off hardware accelerated in dxdiag and that still doesn't solve the problem.