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Thanks for the information. The thread is helpful.

I have not seen this yet, so here goes: Up to this quest, the game has been stable for me and I can play for hours without much more than a little frame stutter here and there. I have the GOTY version installed to Program Files [i know, it should be in Games], the latest unofficial patch and some MODS installed. I use FOMM and have updated to Microsoft Visual C++2008. My system is XP Pro, SP3, 2GM Memory and NVidia GForce 7900GTX. I had stopped the first part of this quest with a quicksave at the entrance to the pipes for the "drain the intake pipes" part in the Waters of Life quest. So, this is where I load from. After I enter the pipes and complete the task and re-enter the Memorial, the game CTD with a F5 save attempt or an esc to save attempt. It also crashes when I activate the ladder at the evacuation point to head on out to the Citadel after I have escorted Dr. Li and the team through the tunnels. So far I have played this part of the quest through to the ladder three times and the game play is OK. I just cannot save or leave without a CTD. I think it is possible to basically set the game to a point where this part of the quest is completed with a console command like player.setstage... I think someone had a problem with clearing out the mutants and someone recommended a particular setsatge command. Any help with would be appreciated.

Maybe this should be a separate topic, but I can't seem to get FO3 Edit to work. I have FO3 Edit v2.5.3 and Miax's Tome of FO3 Edit v1.1 08.18.09. The instructions and diagrams in the Miax guide do not match what I see in FO3 Edit. I seem to only be able to click "OK" for the esp's and esm's and after that nothing appears the way it does in Miax's guide and I cannot do any of the things I need to do for it to work. I do not think there is a newer version of the guide. Anyway, the only problem I have had so far with the GOTY version and all the DLC's is the save/crash issue at Rivet City after completing Point Lookout. There is probably a step I am missing with FO3 Edit and after reading the guide and trying to get the edit tool to work 3 times, I need the Forum's help!!!

No one seems to have actually read my post or at least remembered what you read. If you go back and read it you will see I did do a system wide search with no results and that My Documents Folder was empty. Anyway, thanks for at least responding.

Thanks. I know it should be there, but that folder is empty. Maybe its as simple as deleting/reinstalling.

I installed the GOTY version to C:\Games as well as the DLC's and GEEK v1.5. The DLC's are in the Falout Data Folder and they are all in C:\Games. I tried to install the Unofficial Patch v1.2.0 and it warned me it could not find the Fallout.ini file. The Fallout.ini is not in My Documents. The Fallout_default is in the Fallout Data Folder. I am just making sure I am installing, editing and tweaking at this point and I have yet to actually play the game. I guess my question is, is this what happens when you install to C:\Games and not C:\Program Files? This doesn't make an sense. There should be a Fallout.ini somewhere?!? A search and a run shows nothing. Argh...any help would be appreciated.

I concur. It should be patched to the latest edition, but this is the last dump of the Fallout 3 material and we can expect little or no support from here on out. I have my copy on pre-order because I never got any of the DLC's the first time around. I'm looking forward to getting back into into the game with all of the new DLC's and the terrific new mods that weren't available when I played it before. Rabbit Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I too think there will be no more support from the publishers after GOTY. Anyway, I have most of the issues and solutions from various forums indexed and hope I can resolve any problems I may have.

As I suspected. At least I will have the add-ons and a "fresh" copy of the game. And oh yes, a nice shiney new box.

Please forgive what may have already been addressed or is just may simply be a bad question, but I plan on purchasing the GOTY Edition of FO3 with the 5 Add-Ons included and was wondering what the chances are the bugs will be fixed. I offer this as a general question without including specifics about my set-up and maybe that makes it harder to answer, but it seems to me after all the feedback from the FO3 community, Bethsoft would at least address the problems with the the all in one package. Anyway, I think it would be useful to exchange ideas. Thanks