Fallout 3 - Chat dialog, scrolls too fast

[Superiorwitt]

I play Fallout 3 on win8.1 with fose, fwe, fellout etc..a lot of mods... within megaton, the chat text is scrolling way too fast to decipher.. primarily the girl who sells weapons in town.. everyone/everywhere(only been in 101 and megaton) else seems to be ok. Any ideas?

[obobski]

Is this text that's running alongside dialog (e.g. Bethesda NPCs - Amata in Vault 101 is a Bethesda NPC, as is Liam Neeson's character ("your dad"))? Or voiceless text that's running on a character added by a mod? Generally the game will play text as long as the dialog soundclip is running, and IME I've not had issues keeping up with the Bethesda NPCs, but for mod-added NPCs without voice files, the text may flash too quickly (e.g. an entire multi-line segment just flashes up for a second or two). There are mods that fix this (offhandedly I cannot remember the name of one for FO3; for Skyrim an example is Fus ro D-oh - Silent voice), and some mods include "blank" voice files to address the issue as well (to keep the text on-screen longer). Search for something like "voiceless subtitles fix" and you should find what you need. If you're trying to make the Bethesda NPCs take longer to "talk" I'm sure there's a mod for it, but it's nothing I've ever looked into or used; hopefully someone else is aware of something if that's your issue.