xmasterprime

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately none of the settings appeared to resolve the issue. Luckily I had an untouched copy of the HDD data backed up on a flash drive, so I copied that over, reapplied Spice, and it worked immediately. Couldn't retrieve my old save files though for some reason (game would load my profile but couldn't save over it), so I made a new file.

Same, checked audio settings too, its 16-Bit 44100