</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Panadol @ Aug. 03 2002,08:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> 
I also have this issue, though mine is of the vehicle only variety. It can be allievated by changing camera angle (twice - once for each increase in pitch of the engines). This however does not stop static coming from other vehicles. 
Switching hardware sound / EAX off makes no difference. 
However this only began when I installed the brand new SBLive Drivers (my sound card). Before this there everything worked beautifully. 
I can only presume this is because of some incompatibility OPF:R has with these new drivers. 
Uninstalling them is not an option as they get rid of crackling in all my other games.  
This is something which needs to be looked at please.