For sound equipment, I use either the sound card built into my AMD Ryzen motherboard for speakers that I've plugged in, or when I want to be quieter, I use Corsair VOID PRO headset.
Either way, the sound loss, and as I found out, if I let it go for more than 30 seconds, crashes the game, to the point where the system refuses to close the game, and if my Task Manager is on the same screen, I CANNOT bring it up to force quit the game. If I am quick about it, I can save and reload the moment I lose sound, and keep my game from crashing.
My system is MUCH newer stuff, developed and produced all within the last 3 years.
An AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard with 6-core Processor chip with 3.95GHz.
16 GB RAM
and for Graphics card, an NVidia RTX 4060
My OS is Windows 10.
If you need ALL of my data from a dxdiag file, it looks like it has some sensitive information, but if you want particulars, like what the Sound Systems are, those don't look like sensitive information.