im starting to hate fallout 3, i have a new issue with fallout that is starting to seriously piss me off. i just installed fallout and got the game to work with FOOK2 and all that, the game worked perfectly up untill a CTD.. now after that CTD unless i keep music turned all the way up ingame i have no sound at all.... what the feck is going on...

PS, i tryed reinstalling my sound drivers and my Vistacodec pack, i tryed deleting the ini file for fallout 3.. nothing helps.. all other games have perfect sound..

Are you using Alchemy?

You may want to.

alchemy... whats that?

http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

Because of Vista and the abandonment of Direct Sound, this game, among others, can be unstable. Get the program, tell it about Fallout 3 and see what happens. Or, rather, hear what happens...

Of course, you have to have a Creative Card (not sure if it works on other brands of EAX or Directsound products)

i have a realtek onboard soundcard.. so it will proberly not work..

Tell you what, try it. You can always uninstall the program, it is not going to replace drivers and what not. I would be interested to see what happens.

As for your Realtek, did you upgrade/update your motherboard drivers (which will update the sound drivers)?

If you change the lines bMusicEnabled=1 and bSoundEnabled=1 to 0 in your fallout.ini, does the crashing stop?

i was just out at the realtek website, it seems they have release a program for realtek soundcards called 3D SoundBack Beta 0.1 which should do the same as alchemy just for realtek sound cards.. im gonna try it..

EDIT: Well, the issue is proberly a corrupt fallout 3 installation, but since my fallout 3 cd is to scratched to reinstall fallout 3, im just gonna uninstall fallout 3 and find some other game to play from now on..

Closed per OP request.