I dont get much crashing, thats a good thing, but the radio music is screwed, I can get dialogue etc but the radio/Music is like someone trying to tune a channel constantly in game, blipping music cutting in and out, if I hit pause then continue then its starts working for a while until an autosave or I save then the radio/music starts scrambling, or it will work with PAUSE>CONTINUE for about an hour or less before reverting to choppy sounds, although 3 dogs voice dialogue comes across, no music, just choppy.

Now I am using a disc version of the game and considering getting the Steam download as gamesas support over 2 weeks have me trying various methods including selective statup amd it makes no difference. I have a pc i7 3.2 GHZ water cooled 6GB RAM Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 graphics card with game running off the C: drive direct path (not default).

My Steam games are on my 2TB drive E:, so I am asking how the game performs on steam as this disc version is totally sound screwed up...and my sound card works fine on all other games, disc and steam....its only Fallout 3 thats playing up.

Random crashes but not a lot....easily bearable....but the sound its terrible, ruins the mood of the game? Andy help? Realtek 7.1 HD audio card running a 2.1 speaker system so dts is off.....

Win 7 64 bit

Is the Steam version better?

TIA

There is a known problem with Fallout3 running on a system with a CPU with more than 2 cores. There is an ini fix that you can do and it can be found here or on the nexus. There is a line that needs to be changed and one to be added that will limit your cpu to only 2 cores when running Fallout3. I'm sure a little research and maybe a google search will get you an answer.

Yes I did that....it stops the game from crashing for sure, but this sound issue on the radio is now really P***** me off, dialogue is fine.....but it spoils the game with choppy blipping music and I dont know what else to do, I did that 2 line change in thr fallout ini file and it sure doesnt crash.....not like I had much of a problem with that..its the radio.....is it a faulty disc????????

I was wondering if I got the Staem download as I have not heard 1 incident about sound...only freezing and crashing.....and as Steam is platform wheee they know we might have hi spec PCs, the games usually aito update and run fine, all my other Bethesda games do like Oblivion/Skrim jas a bug which is odd...Skjor lives after being killed!. but othwerise I wanna play this game on PC as its best platform but tghe Syeam download is 2x more then I paid for the disc....￡19.99...what to do...?

No one eslse anywhere is having this problem with the sound? So I must have a faulty disc? I have trried all troubleshooting techniques, selective start up, changed the ini file and the sound is choppy noise from the radio, the voice dialogue is fine....so the disc is faulty...oh well, Bethsupport have been trying but this problem is not solvable, lets chuck money away....Steam here I come.......at least I can get refund for faulty games.....but I doubt it, all my steam games work fine, all disc games work fine except the sound on fallout 3....damnit, F:NV i am getting the Ultimate edition on PS3....

The game isn't run off of the disc on PC. You install it from the disc, and it authenticates the disc before allowing you to start the launcher, but all of the files are on your computer. As long as the game was able to install correctly, there's no way a faulty disc can cause anything like this.

Now, for your issue. This is something I've seen before, and it happens to a lot of people. There are quite a few solutions you can use, however the one that has always worked for me is downloading and installing the K-Lite Codec pack, found here: http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

This is a link to a thread on the Nexus Forums that explains the radio stutter problem in depth: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/159037-radio-stutter-fix-for-fallout-3/

Im sorry I must have been in the wrong forum ... But he's right^^^ . Faulty disc is not your problem or anything with Data comming from your disk drive.