I was wondering if there has been any modding work done on increasing the audio distance in the game.

I find it disapointing to see a raging battle between raiders and mutants about 100 metres away but i cant hear the gunfire or explosions.

GridsToLoad= does wonders for increasing the visual distance at full detail but ive not been able to find a similar setting in the fallout.ini that increases audio distance.
anybody know of a mod or a settting that could help ?

not exactly what you're asking for, but try using http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12602. It adds sound effects such as animals and far off gunfire and much more. might satiate your desire.

You will need to change the attenuation settings for every gun in the game (including mod added ones).

thanks for replies.

may look at the weapon attenuation settings... wonder if editing them will cause incompatibilities though......

It should not conflict because the entries holding attenuation settings are separate from the entries that are actually the guns themselves.

If it works that'd be a nice mod. Packages for WMK, FWE, etc guns..

Where are these settings?

Edit: Nevermind, found them. I'll play around with them and see if something interesting happens but yeah, you'd need to do it for all modded weapons too. Luckily I'm using none.

Okay here's a little test release. The sound distance of all Fallout 3 weapons (DLCs not included) has been increased, some more than others. I did a quick test and it seems alright. Let me know how it sounds, people.

I'm especially curious if it's not unrealistically loud still at long distances.

http://www.2shared.com/file/y41aoHHt/IGSR.html

It should be compatible with most mods.

Nice one ! I'l try this out over the weekend.