It seems highly improbable that it has to do with the sound drivers. The sound driver just relays the information delivered by the game to whatever output device is used. It has no influence on what sound-files are played or on when they are played.
um, they do, since the sound files are passed through and processed by the sound card drivers and then generated by the speaker drivers (bit of a pun there). if there's an issue with the drivers or a communication issue between the drivers and the software you can get problems.