Invisibalist: Another approach is to switch to window mode:
XIII.ini
StartupFullscreen=True To
StartupFullscreen=False Also changing
ReduceMouseLag=True To
ReduceMouseLag=False helped at some booting issues.
Tried with both, but no luck. Still no progress on the audio front, but I am looking into getting a cheapo sound card to see if that helps.
Edit: In case it helps point someone else in a better direction, here's the dependency dump for WinDrv.dll and HxAudio.dll
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27030.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dump of file WinDrv.dll
File Type: DLL
Image has the following dependencies:
IMM32.dll
binkw32.dll
DINPUT8.dll
Window.dll
Core.dll
Engine.dll
HXAudio.dll
KERNEL32.dll
USER32.dll
GDI32.dll
MSVCR70.dll
Summary
1000 .data
E000 .rdata
4000 .reloc
5000 .rsrc
E000 .text
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27030.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dump of file HXAudio.dll
File Type: DLL
Image has the following dependencies:
SHLWAPI.dll
WINMM.dll
Core.dll
Engine.dll
KERNEL32.dll
USER32.dll
DSOUND.dll
MSVCR70.dll
Summary
8000 .data
1A000 .rdata
7000 .reloc
77000 .text