Drackion

Hah, just got the email about this, glad you fixed it. I found moving it to C:/Games, and following the tweak guide Alexx378 posted on page 1 helped.

Tried iNumHWThreads=3, sometimes it crashes and some times it doesn't. Ah well, worth a try I guess.

Apologies for not replying sooner. I think I did fix it in the end with a reinstall to C:/Games instead of C:/Program Files (x86); it seems to play nice with mods, FOSE and all my old saves too, which is nice because I'm 90+ hours into my current character with a lot of the game left to play :P I think trying to use the Steam UI beta bugged it up a bit which was causing my stuttering issues, the new one doesn't seem to affect it though. I will try and see if iNumHWThreads=3 works later today, I'll post back to let you know if it does. A big thanks to everyone who's replied to this :D

Uh no :no: This is a new laptop, and the 5650 is easily powerful enough to run F3. I can run Crysis on high at a reasonable framerate ffs :P I can try running it on a lower setting, but it doesn't make any difference. Going to try reinstalling to somewhere other than program files, see if that helps >_>

Yay for continuing problems. After a short break, I tried to play it again, and now it crashes again. It freezes, and I can hear the sound, but I continue to do stuff. For example, I was walking to the megaton gates, and I got outside of it, but my screen got stuck in Megaton. The odd thing is the screen gets stuck between 2 frames, sort of like it's flashing. It usually happens when I move the mouse, but sometimes in the menu screens too. It's a not a complete freeze like last time. CAD now works though, thankfully. Setup hasn't changed since last time. Thanks for the all help so far guys :)

@Alexx: My load order's in the first post ;l) I used the Oblivion Mod Manager back in the day, so I've used FOMM pretty much from day one. I did manage to fix it, I think. I went in to all the Fallout.ini and set all the threaded options to 1 (apart from audio), and set iNumHWThreads=2 , and for the half hour I played it didn't crash. Just wondering, can you set iNumHWThreads=3, or does it have to be 1 or a power of 2? I know there are tri-core processors available, so I was just wondering if it would work for a possible performance boost. @Nadin: I couldn't though, that's the thing. I tried opening process explorer/task manager before I started playing, but I couldn't get out of the game once it froze. Thanks for all the help guys :D Looking forward to playing the rest of the GOTY content.

Hey. I think you got confused, I've got 4 gigs of RAM, but the graphics card has 1 gig of it's own VRAM (not shared with the main stuff). I tried enabling the hdd cache, but it had no effect :/ Any other suggestions? Thanks, Drackion

Hiya, I recently got myself a nice new Dell Studio 1749 laptop with Windows 7, but for some reason whenever I try and play F3 GOTY, it always freezes after about 5 - 15 minutes. I have to forcibly restart the computer, I can't get out of the game at all. The odd thing is though the sound still continues when it does crash though. Originally I was trying to play the full thing with a couple of mods installed, but even when I try and play the vanilla game it still breaks. I also tried running it in Compatibility mode and as Administrator, but without any luck. Even tried the FOSE, but that didn't help either. I'm guessing it might well be a 64-bit issue, but I'm at a loss as what to do? Anyone else had this problem who can help? Specs: Dell 1749 Studio Laptop Intel Core i5-530M 2.4Ghz (2 cores, 4 threads) 4GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility 5650 1GB Load Order: 00 - Fallout3.esm 01 - PointLookout.esm 02 - Anchorage.esm 03 - ThePitt.esm 04 - BrokenSteel.esm 05 - Zeta.esm 06 - CubeExperimental (EN).esm 07 - GalaxyNewsRadio100(M).esm It's not a case of the laptop not being able to run the game, for the few minutes it does work, I get about 40-50fps on highest settings. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Drackion