With 1001 Spikes, I think the issue is somehow related to Creative's OpenAL driver.
If someone who's experiencing the issue would like to try something, here's how to replace Creative's with an open-source software implementation -- if you try it, please report back!
1) Uninstall the official (Creative's) OpenAL.
2) Download an alternative version (OpenAL Soft) from http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-soft-1.15.1-bin.zip
3) From the zip, extract the file Win32\soft_oal.dll and rename it to openal32.dll
4) Copy/move this openal32.dll to the game's EXE folder, e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\1001 Spikes", or directly to "C:\windows\SysWOW64" if you have more games that use OpenAL.
If someone who's experiencing the issue would like to try something, here's how to replace Creative's with an open-source software implementation -- if you try it, please report back!
1) Uninstall the official (Creative's) OpenAL.
2) Download an alternative version (OpenAL Soft) from http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-soft-1.15.1-bin.zip
3) From the zip, extract the file Win32\soft_oal.dll and rename it to openal32.dll
4) Copy/move this openal32.dll to the game's EXE folder, e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\1001 Spikes", or directly to "C:\windows\SysWOW64" if you have more games that use OpenAL.