Help Radio in game is stuttering

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

recently i reinstalled fallout 3 and got some mods to fix it up a bit and the radio was stuttering alot and the only way to fix was to tap escape 3 times and it would be fixed but that was annoying and i tried to find mods to fix it that didnt work i tried doing the codec thing that didnt work but for some reason when i hear 3 dogs voice it fine but the music sounds like its stuttering but if alt tab out of the game while music is playing its sound normal but when i go back in it sounds like its stuttering the radio only works when i have my speakers pluged in but my headpohones do not work i tried messing around with the audio on my headset that didnt work. So please help me out someone thanks. Also sorry if i have any grammar mistakes in there Thank You

[JtDarth]

Sounds like a codec issue to me, or potentially even an issue of sample frequency/quality.

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Sounds like a codec issue to me, or potentially even an issue of sample frequency/quality.

any way to fix it or a youtube video to help install the thing or something?

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by French Engineer:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Sounds like a codec issue to me, or potentially even an issue of sample frequency/quality.

any way to fix it or a youtube video to help install the thing or something?

seriously. Do you not know how google works? Google fallout 3 radio stutter.

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by French Engineer:

any way to fix it or a youtube video to help install the thing or something?

seriously. Do you not know how google works? Google fallout 3 radio stutter.

well i tryed doing the codec thing again and it didnt work

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by French Engineer:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

seriously. Do you not know how google works? Google fallout 3 radio stutter.

well i tryed doing the codec thing again and it didnt work

Open your fallout.ini in a text editor such as Notepad (your fallout.ini file is located in your Documents or My Documents directory, under My Games\Fallout3\).


Find:

iAudioCacheSize=2048

Try doubling the value to:

iAudioCacheSize=4096

Or if you have a lot of performance to spare:

iAudioCacheSize=8192

Try this.
That's all the help I'm gonna give directly. I have no issue with helping people, but I'm not going to hand feed them the info when a basic google search will provide all the help they could ever need.
EDIT: Just noticed you mentioned mods. Which ones? Any that affect the audio or radio specifically?

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

i searched on google fallout stutter remover and nothing worked also i didnt have any mods that would affect the audio just the unoffical fallout patch and error corrections thing

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by French Engineer:

well i tryed doing the codec thing again and it didnt work

Open your fallout.ini in a text editor such as Notepad (your fallout.ini file is located in your Documents or My Documents directory, under My Games\Fallout3\).


Find:

iAudioCacheSize=2048

Try doubling the value to:

iAudioCacheSize=4096

Or if you have a lot of performance to spare:

iAudioCacheSize=8192

Try this.
That's all the help I'm gonna give directly. I have no issue with helping people, but I'm not going to hand feed them the info when a basic google search will provide all the help they could ever need.
EDIT: Just noticed you mentioned mods. Which ones? Any that affect the audio or radio specifically?

also i treid this as well and nothing happend i saw that already

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by French Engineer:

i searched on google fallout stutter remover and nothing worked also i didnt have any mods that would affect the audio just the unoffical fallout patch and error corrections thing

Try starting a new game with the unofficial patch disabled, see if the radio is still messed up also, which version of the unofficial patch are you using? Are you using the all-in-one by Benwah or are you using the old one?

[Scongo The Scout Trooper]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by French Engineer:

i searched on google fallout stutter remover and nothing worked also i didnt have any mods that would affect the audio just the unoffical fallout patch and error corrections thing

Try starting a new game with the unofficial patch disabled, see if the radio is still messed up also, which version of the unofficial patch are you using? Are you using the all-in-one by Benwah or are you using the old one?

so i dont know what happen but when re enabled the unoffical patach the radio works great now but now every time i press escape the radio does not work i would have to go in to the radio part in the pip boy and re select and it would start to work which im fine with but it works now thank you my good sir

[Duck]

I know I am years late but I am putting this here for my fellow players in search of a solution. I fixed this by using dsoal. You can get a compiled version of the DLL here: https://github.com/ThreeDeeJay/dsoal
Use the win32 binaries by just putting them in the games home directory (The one with the Fallout 3.exe) It will auto load them which should resolve the issue.

P.S. This also fixed the issue I had where if I alt-tabbed the game would close. Maybe that issue is related to the DirectSound calls. This makes the DirectSound calls in the code become OpenAL calls if that explains anything.