It's very strange. For some reason, weapons with looped firing sounds (Minigun, gatling gun, flamer) don't make any sound when they are shooting. There's the sound of the bullets hitting things and such, but not the looping sound of the spinning minigun or flames getting thrown.

But this only goes for the vanilla sounds. When I install a sound replacer, those sounds do work.

What's strange is that if I extract the vanilla sounds from the bsa and put them in the same place, so that they act as a replacer, then it still doesn't work. So it looks like something is wrong with the sound files themselves. If I play the sounds with a music player or from the GECK they work fine however.

I don't have this problem with other sounds. It would be best to find the solution for the problem but until then I'm also satisfied with a flamer sound replacer that might work. I already have a replacer for the minigun and gatling gun, and those work fine. Does anyone know of any flamer sound replacers?

Could this be a codec issue? I have the Combined Community Codec Pack installed, maybe that has something to do with it?

This all happens on a 100% vanilla game, even without any sound replacers in use.

Perhaps a mod has accidentally altered the sound settings in the weapon's settings?

I started a new game without any mods active so that can't be it.

I even tried removing the entire sounds folder, to make sure I had no sound replacers running at all. All sounds play fine, including most weapon sounds, except for the looping minigun/gatling laser/flamer.

I also have FFDShow from the codec pack disabled for Fallout 3 so that's not it either.

Anyway I just found a flamer sound replacer and that one is working.


Maybe my timing for this thread is a little bad, because I am about to post a beta for a gun sound related mod so that makes it look bad. But that has nothing to do with this.