Grombart: After giving NWN another try now i may be onto something here and wanted to share what might be a solution to the sudden music hangups. It's a shame i didn't try this earlier but well... that's life. ;)

What i did is change the "Number 2D Voices" and "Number 3D Voices" in the nwn.ini to 8 instead of 16. The thought behind this action is that maybe the stuttering background sounds and related keyboard lockups occur when the (not correctly identified and therefore maybe not correctly "talked to") soundcard cannot handle too many used sound channels or something like that. I'm not too deep into this stuff, but for now it looks promising. Only downside is that due to the reduced channels sometimes in big battles some of the battle sounds won't play, but that's nothing too distracting and they simply reoccur after the number of sound sources become less.

I really hope this REALLY was it and i can finally enjoy NWN again. And, though my problem doesn't seem to be common, maybe i can help 1 or 2 others who have the same problem with this post.

Have a good time and pray for my NWN copy to not go to sound hell again!

Grombart