Duck and Cover

OK, I've owned Fallout 2 since it first was released. Tonight, I finished it for the first time ever!
Imagine my frustration when this happened:
The cinematic started, but a few lines of speech in, it cuts to the next slide (it acts like I clicked the mouse or hit a key). The same happened with the following slide. And on and on and on. So I see the slides, but don't get to hear enough narration to know what's going on. Has this happened to anyone else?
If so, can anyone help me so I can see this the way it's meant to run?
I'm not sure what's the problem, but I'd really like to finally see the end of the game after five years!
I'm running Windows XP if that makes any difference.

It's a common problem with no known solution, on newer machines.

you could try running it in win98 compatibility mode, that may help. (right click the shortcut, properties, compatibility)

I gave it a shot, but no dice.
I did turn on the subtitles, so I could read ahead a bit, but still haven't been able to see all of the ending...
grrr... thanks for the help, though!

Fallout 2 has so many kinks in it... Talk about rushed goods.

Does the new patches help?

try disabling sound acceleration using dxdiag

best regards
weirdo

try turning up hardware exelleration to full, it might do it.

weirdo, how do I do that?
I'm not familiar with that prog.

currently, i'm not using windows so i may be wrong in some part, but AFAIK:

1. run dxdiag
2. find a tab named 'sound'
3. adjust acceleration using a slider