Radio active with horrible sound issues.

[Zorkel]

So my fallout 3 game has been plagued with massive issues which I have to quite large extent been able to iron out, except for one last major issue.

 

I use a few radio stations and most work quite well except for radio active channel extender.

When I play songs the song will not quite stutter but kinda get stuck on some kind of repeat, when it skips

to next song I get some weird blip/bleep sounds and it reverts back a few seconds. Sort of like a poorly

scratched cd your trying to play. And I'm not sure how to fix it or if it's part of the radio stuttering bug I have been plagued with.

 

I did have issues with all radios stutter when playing music, and I believe I have managed to get rid of it.

At least conelrad, gnr doesn't appear to have any issues at all.

 

As for the rest of my fallout 3 experience?

Can't say so much about it, just installed it a few days ago and did a decently heavy job modding it, and

trying to iron out all issues. But it do seems fairly stable except for that sound crap issue.

 

I have no idea what I have done so far to fix it, so many different changes here and there...

 

I did download k-lite codec pack (basic edition)

Extended the sound cache to 6mb

And countless different settings combinations in the sound/hardware tab.

 

My computer specs is as follows:

 

OS: windows 8 x64

Ram: 8GB

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4, 3.25Ghz

Gpu: Nvidia GTX 680, 2GB ram

Soundcard: Soundblaster X-FI Surround 5.1 pro

 

My Load order:

 

 

Fallout3.esm
Anchorage.esm
ThePitt.esm
StreetLights.esm
BrokenSteel.esm
PointLookout.esm
Zeta.esm
aHUD.esm
iHUD.esm
TalonExtraArmor.esm
CRAFT.esm
CALIBR.esm
Project Beauty.esm
RH_IRONSIGHTS.esm
Advanced Recon Tech.esm
EVE.esm
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esm
Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
DCInteriors_ComboEdition.esm
Detect Traps.esm
BobbleHead Collectors Book.esm
DarNifiedUIF3.esp
CASM.esp
UPP - Pack 1.esp
UPP - Pack 2.esp
UPP - Experience Perks.esp
UPP - Quest Perks.esp
Combat Style Perks.esp
TinCanCRAFTing.esp
S.I.K.esp
CONELRAD 640-1240.esp
ConelRad.esp
R.A.C.E. Station.esp
GNR Enhanced.esp
gnrroof.esp
GNR Shop.esp
Wadsworth Tweaks.esp
UndergroundHideout.esp
LeatherBackpack - eng.esp
Dynamic Repair - Anchorage.esp
Dynamic Repair - The Pitt.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Alternate Travel.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (BrokenSteel).esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Optional VATS Halftime.esp
Alt Start Weapons - FWE.esp
WeaponModKits.esp
WeaponModKits - OperationAnchorage.esp
WeaponModKits - ThePitt.esp
WeaponModKits - BrokenSteel.esp
WeaponModKits - PointLookout.esp
WeaponModKits - Zeta.esp
Dynamic Repair - WMK.esp
Advanced Recon Armor.esp
Advanced Recon Gear.esp
Advanced Recon Tech.esp
Detect Traps - The Traponator 4000.esp
Advanced Recon Range Finder.esp
WeaponModKits - FWE Master Release.esp
RH_FWE_Bridge.esp
RH_WMK_Bridge.esp
RH_EVE_Bridge.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Anchorage.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC The Pitt.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Broken Steel.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Zeta.esp
Owned!.esp
F3ProjectRealityMkI.esp
Bashed Patch, 0.esp
Blackened FWE + MMM + EVE + Project Beauty.esp

Total active plugins: 76
Total plugins: 76

 

[pkleiss]

From my personal ancient common solutions file, I give you this:

 

Audio Stutter (helps with FPS too)

1) Download Installed Codecs here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/InstalledCodec.shtml

2) Download and install k-lite codec pack (basic) here:
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

3) run the InstalledCodec.exe

4) Disable all Codecs (Ctrl + A to select all, then disable all)

5) Sort by Type: Select all video codecs and enable them

6) Sort by company: Select all Microsoft Corporation Codecs and enable them

7) Additionally, enable all of these two company's codecs: Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS & Sipro Lab Telecom Inc.

:cool: Test your game

 

I see you've done some of these already, but I can tell you that this solution solved the radio stutter issue for me (and many others) once and for all, but many years ago.

Edited August 7, 2013 by pkleiss

[Aonghus]

There's also a trick to try from the Tweak Guides: http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html. Look at Page 10 under the section Audio.

[Zorkel]

From my personal ancient common solutions file, I give you this:

 

Audio Stutter (helps with FPS too)

 

1) Download Installed Codecs here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/InstalledCodec.shtml

 

2) Download and install k-lite codec pack (basic) here:

http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

 

3) run the InstalledCodec.exe

 

4) Disable all Codecs (Ctrl + A to select all, then disable all)

 

5) Sort by Type: Select all video codecs and enable them

 

6) Sort by company: Select all Microsoft Corporation Codecs and enable them

 

7) Additionally, enable all of these two company's codecs: Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS & Sipro Lab Telecom Inc.

 

:cool: Test your game

 

I see you've done some of these already, but I can tell you that this solution solved the radio stutter issue for me (and many others) once and for all, but many years ago.

 

Not to sound ungrateful but that caused me a major headache and a fun problem to figure out.

Somewhere a long it caused fallout 3 to crash when I saved. And made my sound worse.

So I did a system restore prior to installing the codec pack and managed to get the sound working quite well.

But I do fear I have wrong mods and load order compared to my save as it still crash when I save.

 

Gotta love head aches and problem solving, thought my sound is great but on a current unusable game. :P

 

I solved the sound issue by installing k-lite media codec pack with lav as recommended flavor, and increased the sound cache to 8MB.

 

Cheers.