sounds suddely too quiet

[beato]

hi there

everything was working nice and smooth except for my radio stuttering most of the time, strangely not always.

a few people wrote that's what you get for using vista (i have vista home premium 32bit, if that's important)

at that time i had CCCP and ac3filter installed.

to get rid of the stuttering i followed the advice of another user to open my ac3 configuration->system and change the default audio renderer from direct sound to wave out.

so far so good, no more stuttering radios, but all sounds were a lot quiter than before.

-changed it back to direct sound, but that didn't change anything back ingame...

-so i read a little, deinstalled ac3 and cccp, installed k-lite codec package and MADFilter.

-no change (rebooted after new codec installation, so that's not the problem).

 

-so back to cccp+ac3filter.

 

now when i set ac3 to direct sound everything is way too quiet AND i get radio stuttering.

 

when i set it to wave out i get normal sound volume in the main menu, but as soon as i load a game everything goes quiet again,

even the slide-projector sound you get during the loading-screen.

 

yeah, looks like i messed something up there so help please...

[mewditto]

Try moving the Fallout 3 volume sliders up in options.

[beato]

Try moving the Fallout 3 volume sliders up in options.

 

ok, i should have written that, they're at maximum already

[beato]

no ideas?

i can 'fix' it but turning up the system volume to about 4times the normal value but i would like to understand where this problem came from so i can avoid it in the future.

besides, forgetting you set your system volume up that loud can have quite unpleasant results.

[Nadin]

True. I'm really not sure what caused it, though a lot of what people think is glitchy stuttering is actually just a staticy signal from the station.

If you don't want to adjust your main volume, you can get headphones/speakers with independent volume control.