Getting my own music to play on GNR radio

[Restayvien]

I've put the music files in the right place so that my own music plays on GNR radio, but it's veeeery choppy and makes it unbearable to listen to. Does anyone know why it's playing so badly and what I can do about it? :(

The strange thing is that if I alt-tab out of the game the music starts playing fine, but the moment I go back into the game it's choppy again...? :wallbash:

 

Thanks to anyone who can help...

[mechine]

I hope they figure out that the flood control just causes me to ping the heck out of the server until the timer goes out.

 

 

Wait what were we talking about?

 

 

What I would do is download a mod that already adds music to GNR

 

 

and then either rename my music like what the file names are for the mod

 

or use a mod that allows you to add a certain number of your own music

 

 

You can also use the groveatron mod which has the groveatron mp3 player

which allows up to 20 songs to be played ingame, but it's not like radio

 

 

Alternately it could be that you have not fixed the GNR radio station yet

 

there is a quest where you go steal a sat uplink an replace the broken one

on the washington monument, which gets rid of the static out in the wasteland

and you can even bypass this quest or skip it, which is a problem.

 

 

 

Also computers that are over taxed with a sheer crazy amount of code

sometimes pop the speakers

 

for example if I had a full auto shotgun, the 9-27 projectiles it shoots

all make a bullet wizzing thru the air sound each time they are launched

which would cause a massive amount of data threads all being "played"

at the same time, causing mad pop static sounds, but you can fix stuff like this.

 

 

Even running fallout and then something like Windows media player creates enough data

flow that sometimes it will pop from the many many layers of sound, this also will fry your

mother board after a few years, but you can just get a better one then anyway

 

 

Part of it would be direct X settings, windows settings, and then the fallout stuff.

how much each has to do is really unknown

 

 

the file type of the music probably has something to do with it to

 

the sample rate of the mp3's or even more, could cause it

 

a lower sample rate will be less quality yes, but at the same time

 

requires less resources to be run.

 

 

A example is the vanilla gun sounds pretty much all recorded at 32kHz or 22kHz

while the killer awesome ones the players use an created are 44kHz across the board

which is part of the reason they sound so killer.

 

 

You could also probably enter the GECK an make a .esp that changes the GNR playlist

or make a new station maybe.

 

 

Also Fallout 3 isn't really alt tab friendly perse, and could corupt your data maybe.

[Restayvien]

Thanks for the reply. Nah it's not due to hardware limitations, I frequently play music with WMP while I'm playing and have a browser window opne in the background without problems. :)

 

I found a fix anyway, after much googling.

 

To fix choppy/popping sound during radio playback (if you have a Creative X-Fi soundcard) you download ALchemy from the Creative site, install it, and then add Fallout 3 to the list of games that use it (you will need to add the installation path).

 

It will then list 3 values, I can't remember what they are, but they need to be set to:

 

10

5

...I can't remember what the third needs to be set to, I'm pretty sure the deafult is fine.

 

Once I'd done that it fixed all my problems. :biggrin:

[phoneyLogic]

You could use your own customized Radio Station eg with the Radio Active Channel Extender - Advanced:)

But if your Radio is stuttering, you should have a look into the Radio Stutter Thread

[mystiklees]

Do I have to create the mono and wave file for my music to work? Looking to add my own tunes to GNR off of a mod that I got off Nexus to make GNR better. I just want some metal and have Three Dog for immersion.