Awful Crackling sounds in the music

[treese]

I started playing this game recently and as of late I've been plagued with this extremely obnoxious sound issue where all music, whether it be on the main menu or the radio, has this awful stuttering sound to it. This wasn't the case when I first started playing, it just appeared a few hours ago, I might've installed a mod but I uninstalled it afterwards.

I've already tried enabled multi threaded audio and increasing the audio cache size, to no avail.

Edit: I reinstalled the game, and the audio was still borked. I then set multithread audio to 1, and it was fixed. The game later crashed, and now I'm back where I was before the reinstall, where none of the fixes work.

[Salamand3r-]

Try decreasing the audio cache size.

[Salamand3r-]

As I said, crackling can be caused by the audio cache being set too high. Try reducing it to half the default level.

[Dirt_Wizard4]

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

[Corona Varus]

Originally posted by G:

I started playing this game recently and as of late I've been plagued with this extremely obnoxious sound issue where all music, whether it be on the main menu or the radio, has this awful stuttering sound to it. This wasn't the case when I first started playing, it just appeared a few hours ago, I might've installed a mod but I uninstalled it afterwards.

I've already tried enabled multi threaded audio and increasing the audio cache size, to no avail.

Edit: I reinstalled the game, and the audio was still borked. I then set multithread audio to 1, and it was fixed. The game later crashed, and now I'm back where I was before the reinstall, where none of the fixes work.

The Fallout.ini's audio code was changed. Try editing it.

1. Open the file Fallout.ini comes in

2. Right-click Fallout.ini and select properties

3. Uncheck read-only and set it for all files in a folder (for me it was the only option)

4. Open Fallout.ini and select edit --> find --> IAudioCache Size

5. set IAudioCacheSize's value to 8192

6. Save Fallout.ini and boot up New Vegas.

This ended up working for someone last 5 Jun 2022

Please do not listen to any off-link sites.
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22380/discussions/0/5281042383606953668/

[Woyard]

Originally posted by Dirt_Wizard4:

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

it worked for me, with a youtube vid in the background, after changing the cache size did seemingly nothing

[SweetHollow3]

W response, watching a short vid while you load up the game gets the crackling to stop

[cla21567]

Weird, the video worked when nothing else did.

[Death Approaches]

because the game doesn't know time has moved on, and tries to initialize the audio output stream the way the windows sound system at the time worked in XP/Vista era, when the sound library they licensed was cutting-edge and popular, but the browser playing a bit of media that contains audio doesn't need to, it just plays and it's handled by the windows media system directly; so when the audio chip is pre-initialized and playing audio correctly, and the game starts up it's initialization routine gets ignored and keeps sending it's audio data, and the mixer takes care of matching sampling and getting it to your earholes. The other way listed above to fix it is more "correct" but this has worked for years for old games with outdated sound libraries that can't see into the future either, ones much older than FNV, especially games that were used to having exclusive audio card access. So remember this trick.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

because the game doesn't know time has moved on, and tries to initialize the audio output stream the way the windows sound system at the time worked in XP/Vista era, when the sound library they licensed was cutting-edge and popular, but the browser playing a bit of media that contains audio doesn't need to, it just plays and it's handled by the windows media system directly; so when the audio chip is pre-initialized and playing audio correctly, and the game starts up it's initialization routine gets ignored and keeps sending it's audio data, and the mixer takes care of matching sampling and getting it to your earholes. The other way listed above to fix it is more "correct" but this has worked for years for old games with outdated sound libraries that can't see into the future either, ones much older than FNV, especially games that were used to having exclusive audio card access. So remember this trick.

Thanks for the write-up, been wondering the reasons behind this bug for years.

[GtheMVP]

Originally posted by Dirt_Wizard4:

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

Worked for me thanks!

Mine was working mostly fine before, but it would crackle at times on start up. A system restart always fixed it, but now it always crackles regardless. Your suggestion fixed it, thanks again!

[tatored]

Originally posted by Dirt_Wizard4:

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

wtf hahaha its actually worked!! thanks btw.

[injury]

Originally posted by Dirt_Wizard4:

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

why the hell is this the fix lmfao thank u!

[Thulsa_Doom]

Originally posted by Dirt_Wizard4:

Really random and have absolutely no idea why it works but playing a sound (video, music, etc) in the background while starting the game apparently stopped the crackling for me. I have only tried this twice so I have no idea if it’ll help but I’ve been having the same issue for the past couple of days while suddenly figuring this out

Thank you, it really worked.

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