Problems with audio files...

[Shidentora]

OK, folks, I gotta problem I need help with.

I arranged myself a pretty custom soundtrack: STALKER themes and other themes from Nexus and Terminator Franchise soundtracks... Just LOVELY creepy music, it takes me INTO the game...

 

BUT, sometimes when certain melodies finish and other start, the game just lags (I mean, stops for a few seconds and then goes on, NO CTDs so far). All the files are MPEG Layer 3 Audio File.

 

WTF is goin' on?

[Recre]

Maybe the game is reading the files and processing :thumbsup: ?. Anyway whats the problem usually when I play Fallout 3 it crashes every once and a while. I imagine if a game this amazing could work without crashes, bugs, or glitching. Well, I would never need another game. For now cracks do as substitute :thumbsup:

[rmg100]

I would like to know how to get new audio files to work, it was so easy in fallout 3, for exploring music, i just went to the explore folder and renamed my song "explore_09" and so on. Yet in FNV the folders are so scattered and compartmentalized and the names of the music files themselves only confuses me more. Any insight into how to properly import music into the game would be wonderful.

[yeahchris]

For the stuttering, the larger the mp3 the longer it will take fallout to load it, and the more noticeable the delay will be. If you're using especially high quality mp3s or particularly long songs you might consider downgrading.

[Shidentora]

Umm, I guess that I just Nanti Sikit... Tr+hat's Wait-a-while in Malayan.

That is to say, wait until the game starts again.

[olafreinhardweyer]

I am the modder of http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9814

 

Hardware solutions:

- The best solution would be not to rely on an mainboard sound device (onboard)

but have a good sound card installed.

- Have as much RAM as possible. If you are using an AMD Phenom system use DDR2 1066 (if possible). With Phenom the timings (those e.g. 5-5-5-12 numbers)

are less important than choosing DDR2 1066 over DDR2 800.

SOFTWARE SIDE OF RAM: Get 3GB enabler on Nexus. Even if you have less than 3 GB installed Fallout3 will profit from the changes and run more smoothly!

- If you have an ATI card but don't use your monitors speakers turn of the ATI (HDMI) audio device. You will get a better performance overall (about 2%)

 

QUALITY SOLUTIONS

Your mp3 must be of a certain quality to be played correctly. You can try running the mp3 even on a lower quality, but i haven't tried that myself:

 

The maintitle is the only mp3 that runs with the standard @320

Explore, Dungeon and Public music run @256

Battle music runs at @192

 

To convert your music to a lower quality get the DEMO of the software SWITCH. You can downgrade that DEMO to a free version of the software and still

have all the features you need. It's the best audio converter out there.

 

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

Have short filenames for your mp3s. Don't use numbers above 9. If you have ten tracks or more rename those to 9b etc. The game engine plays

mp3s with a "1" in it more often than others if you have tracks named 10, 11, 111, etc.

 

INGAME SOLUTION

To turn off the stutter of music, in your pipboy turn on a radio station, than turn it off again. The problem might occur later on but for the moment

a new music (explore etc) track will be started flawlessly.

 

I hope i helped.