SgtYork2327

Here’s a clarification on Gnome – Norton. He's located near Warrington Trainyard, not Warrington Station as mentioned above. Look under the table in the metal building high above the SW corner of the train yard. The one in Minefield is in the basement of the abandoned house, on the desk beside the computer

Purr4me, thank you for the tips. After much frustration I gave up and went to bed. Checking other things today, I found the touch pad didn’t work either. I started checking devices and found mouse-touchpad-usb driver conflicts, and 2 audio driver conflicts, all which needed new 8.1 compatible drivers. Also during the night I got about 350 Mb of new windows updates (including some device patches !!!). I loaded everything and went back to try FO3 again. I have the basic game, all DLCs and FEW working properly again. I’m in the process of getting the other mods installed but at least know what I have to do. (BTW my FO3 executable is v1.7.03 and I launch from fose.loader.exe) Bottom line here is I should have known 8.1 would mess up a lot of things and not freeked out when FO3 was the first bad thing I discovered. Thanks again.

I just upgraded Win 8.0 to Win 8.1 (please don't scold) and now FO3 (GOTY PC on CDs ed.) won't work. Before the upgrade, FO3 & all DLCs, FWE, EWE and PB worked fine. Mouse and sound worked fine. I had actually played through twice. After the Win upgrade, FO3 would boot up very slowly and jerky as far as the menu screen, then crash when selecting continue or start a new game. I deactivated and uninstalled everything to start over. I have now reloaded basic FO3 and all DLCs, used the video card "trick", changed the .ini to iAudioCacheSize=8192, turned off ingame vsynch, and applied the latest unofficial patch. I have been able to recover only minimally. I can get the game to run, but the video and audio are verrry slow, music stutters badly, and the mouse is extremely jerky and so unstable as to be almost useless. The game is unplayable; it hasn't actually crashed, but freezes up during character selection following the birth scene. I have internet-searched these problems extensively for clues, but am now stuck. Can someone please, please pleeeeezzzzz help? Thanks !!