Fallout 3 Sound Problems Realtek HD Audio

[Krutz]

Running XP PRO 64-bit

 

I know there probably is a thread about this, so direction to it would be nice.

 

My problem is the volume keeps going up and down, my gun fire, people talking, etc.. it's very distracting.

I've tried going to the control panel and changing the sound acceleration settings, and my drivers are updated.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

[mechine]

This probably won't help

 

 

 

I use Win XP with a ASUS P5ND which has that realtek built in audio or whatevers

 

 

Which I found was pretty great.

 

 

Not really what I wanted in a motherboard though

 

 

So I tweeked the BIOS settings so that sound would be on the PCI

old dusty sound card

 

At least until the card burns out I guess

 

I don't even know if the PCI is any better

the whole point was moving it off the motherboard

 

I had popping sounds with one game (not fallout)

 

but the Popping happened both in the onboard realtek an PCI soundblaster

So their limitations are probably close enough, could be that crappy game though

or well running Windows media player in the background with that game

 

 

I mean no doubt the realtek is better, the thinking was taking sound off the motherboard

might free it up.

 

 

So anyway back to your problem

 

I've never heard of fadeing sound volume in an out

 

sounds awful

 

 

It could be something in BIOS, or Something inside the windows settings for sound.

 

 

I noticed this last time I had a sound problem it was Windows crappy sound settings.

 

 

So I reinstalled the software for the PCI sound card, which turned over those settings to default

in lew of the new program that was going to run them from now on.

 

I reckon the problem started from messing with sound settings on the windows control panel

rather than just using whatever software that runs the sound or from doing both.

 

 

So you could try either setting everything to default, an tweeking the realtek settings

or reinstalling the realtek software, maybe realtek has a user interface to access controls

rather than mess with the windows stuff.

 

You could also mute all the line in volumes, and normal stuff like that.

 

 

You know it could be a bug, there is part of the game engine that will lower the volume on things

to fade in or out or like if it thought someone was talking when nobody was, but then

there could be stuff running in the background, or it could be a 64 bit OS glitch Idk

 

 

You could try looking at the fallout propertys to see

and maybe even set it to run as Win XP 32 SP3

 

 

Look at the bethesda site too, maybe even search there.

 

See I told you this probably wouldn't help,

 

Hang in there though, pretty much everything we do with fallout is really hard

an really frustrating...