diff --git a/src/engine/include/modules/audio.hpp b/src/engine/include/modules/audio.hpp
index be2709a..1899cd7 100644
--- a/src/engine/include/modules/audio.hpp
+++ b/src/engine/include/modules/audio.hpp
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ public:
 
 private:
     u8 songLoaded, volume, realVolume, songPlaying, songInLoop, songFinished;
+    u8 hack; // TODO
     std::vector<AudioListenerRef *> songListeners;
     FILE *wav;
     audsrv_fmt_t format;
diff --git a/src/engine/modules/audio.cpp b/src/engine/modules/audio.cpp
index 0c8b052..f7b51c0 100644
--- a/src/engine/modules/audio.cpp
+++ b/src/engine/modules/audio.cpp
@@ -178,8 +178,20 @@ void Audio::startThread(FileService *t_fileService)
 /** Main thread loop */
 void Audio::threadLoop()
 {
-    if (songPlaying)
-        songPlaying = 1; // GCC11: wtf? we need to put some code there, because song is not playing..
+    // ---
+    // TODO - bug here, GCC11 is doing some optimizations and this method probably think that
+    // "songPlaying" is false + on real PS2 I see that program tries to turn on this
+    // method as rarely as possible (slow, flickering sound). On GCC 3.2.3 this one was fine lol!.
+    if (songPlaying) // HACK1 - im not proud of that
+        songPlaying = 1;
+    if (songLoaded)
+        songLoaded = 1;
+    if (hack == 1) // HACK2 - lets give some work to gcc lol
+        hack = 2;
+    else
+        hack = 1;
+    // ---
+
     if (!songPlaying || !songLoaded)
         return;
     if (songFinished)