After a little digging I found a temporary solution to the "misplaced text" problem : The source of the problem is a miscalculation between the screen and console positions( nothing new here :P ) and while this is not existent in Oblivion, it is in Fallout 3 . To fix this go to your : My Documents/My Games/Fallout3 Make a backup, of Fallout3.ini and Fallout3Prefs.ini before changing anything .Open these two on notepad and find the line "iConsoleTextXPos=" (without the quotes) . Its value will probably be 30 , although this can change depending on the resolution you set for the game, as well as your monitor size .If you change the value from 30 to 200 you will probably see the cursor/runner on the bottom left of your screen .If not then probably if you write something that you wrote before you will see more of the text or the error on the screen . This worked fine for my 19" monitor with 1280*1024 resolution for Fallout 3(and everything else ;D ) .So if the values above did not help, you can adjust them until its on the position you desire .Just make sure you backup before you start the changes, don't make extreme changes however and send the cursor to the other side of the screen :P . If the same problem appears in oblivion then changing the same line in oblivion.ini should fix it, although this didn't occur to me and the value was 30 . I hope this helps !