Strange slowdown

I was curious about the player death explosion. My system exceeds the recommended specs (P-4 1.4ghz, 32M nVidia GeForce2 GTS, 684M RDRAM), but the player death explosion runs at about 4 to 11 fps. It's not important, but it is annoying. None of the other ship explosions do this. Is there something different about the player explosion? I remember MajorTom saying something about the sound drivers causing framerate slowdown, could this be the problem?

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