GTA3 - Game crashes when playing a few sounds...

[urgas]

I have gone through a lot of trubble to get my GTA3 running.
Now I am actually playing the game and that with sound - nice.

However, the game crashes a lot. It seems it happens when it is about to play a few selected sounds. One I have identified is when glass is breaking, a good example is when breaking in at the car dealers shop in Portland.

Has someone else experienced this?
What the heck to do about that?