Death cut scenes end extremely quickly. Problems later?

[byeohazard]

I just reloaded this marvelous game. I've owned both fallouts since they came out! I'm currently playing fo2 and notice that my death cut scenes end in a super quick instant. (the one with the skeleton laying in the sand)I don't get to hear the narrator. I am wondering if I will run into the same problem at games end with the ending cut scenes. I'd really like to hear my endings. Is there a fix out there for this?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Kanhef]

I haven't noticed this with the death cutscene, mostly because I'm in too much of a hurry to hit the 'reload' button.

But I have had this problem happen with the endings sometimes, skipping between the images too quickly. Usually, there isn't any sound, but I think there were a few times when it started playing the first ending narration, but the images changed every couple of seconds. It doesn't always happen, though. I'm playing on a Mac, if that makes any difference.

 

[Zill]

This used to happen to me alot with F1 and I just dismissed it because I always dreaded seeing the death screen
I don't remember it ever effecting my endgame cutscenes or anything, though, nor any other in-game video I ran into.

Don't know about any fixes for it.

 

[Ravager69]

Yes, I have the same problems, both for Fallout 1 and 2. The ending animation and death scenes just skip extremely fast or the lector says only part of the text before skipping the whole damn stuff.

I know old threads shouldn't be ressurected, but I didn't want to start a new one.

 

[Per]

Did you disable sound acceleration in DxDiag?

 

[Ravager69]

no...should I?

 

[br13]

I don't know how skilled you are with computers, so I'll just list the whole procedure down. It doesn't mean to offend your knowledge, just prevent further problems with this

Start menu -> Run
Type dxdiag
Go to Sound tab
Disable the direct sound acceleration.

This solves the problem.

Actually, you should only do it near the end of the game. Death cut scenes aren't worth it and everything else slows down in the meantime.

I had this problem ever since installing WinXP. Surprisingly, my cousin doesn't have this problem on his Windows Vista notebook.