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    Fallout 3 Radio Stuttering

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by GabeGuitarded, Sep 4, 2010.

  1. GabeGuitarded

    GabeGuitarded Notebook Enthusiast

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    I searched around for this but I couldn't find anything, so sorry if it's a repost:

    Is anyone else getting that lousy radio stuttering in Fallout 3? More importantly, has anyone on the M11x found a fix for it? Of the 3 or 4 fixes I've found, none worked for me.

    One involved FFDShow and K-Lite Codec Pack, but that didn't help. One used Creative Alchemy, but that's for people with a specific type of audio card from what I've heard. If you don't have the correct audio card it just causes crashes. Then there's the MADFilter codec, which just ends up taking out radio sound altogether.

    So has anyone found a way that works, or maybe got one of the aforementioned methods to work?
     
  2. vzachari

    vzachari Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,

    with NVIDIA drivers 259.22 and K-lite codecs installed I get no radio stuttering and no game crashes with game version 1.7. I have the DVD rom version of the game but since the M11x has no DVD-ROM drive I had to patch the game. I found that the Multi language patch caused almost no crashes but the ENGLISH only patch (which was the correct version for me) caused crashes every 10 minutes or so.

    I hope this helps


     
  3. GabeGuitarded

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    Thanks, I'll give that a try. I have the DVD version too and it's up to 1.7, but I'm not getting crashes. Did you install the basic codec pack? Or standard or full?

    EDIT: Fixed the stuttering. I installed K-Lite Basic 32-bit and 64-bit, stuttering's gone.