Whats wrong bethesda?

[voodoojedizin]

@ voodoojedizin, you did not post your system specs. -1 in the helpful department although you were quite clear in the problems you experienced. I have a 6+ year-old PC and do not have the problems you or others have described. So apparently, there are issues related to each deployment and the amount of hardware is VAST. The only thing "we" as a community can do to help each other is to let people know our experiences and the hardware we run. With enough data, we might be able to pinpoint known problems. And if you find that your problems go away after a firmware update, software driver update or video card replacement, etc., please let us know.

 

Again, most people here tend to be quite helpful but NOTHING can really be done with people just complaining. Do something to help the situation rather than just point fingers.

 

 

Thanks for the offer of help

 

But I wasn't really asking for any, because I don't think a fix can be found for this problem anywhere except from Bethesda.

 

I just wrote this to stick Up for the guy that started the post, because for some, stupidly insane reason, some people refuse to accept that this problem is real. Even though there are people on every fallout web site that are experiencing exactly this problem over and over and over.

 

I might add that not one single person experiencing this problem has reported a definite fix.

No where is there a post where anything that has been tried, was able to fix this problem.

 

My personal belief is that it has something to do with the game engine itself and not windows or vista, no matter what machine you have.

 

The reason I say this, is simple out of all the games I listed in my other post plus a few more

This is the only game, that I have experience constant crashes. That tells me it's not Windows Vista it's not my computer it's the game that has a problem.

[Derkins]

voodoojedizin you do have a valid point there does seem to be something wrong with the game. At the same time though people seem to be running it fine and otehrs not so well. This in its self is a problem is there a real problem with the game because someone with a super computer has problems? I don't really see that as valid. Also I sure would love to see your system specs your running and what progams your running while playing the game.

I my self ofter have MSN AIM and fire fox as well as xfire running While I play the game. I have problems once and a while when I Alt+Tab out and into the game but this happens with a lot of games.

I think Betha should look at their game and see what the problem is and see it it is fixable or not(it most likley is) It could just people have bad installs.

[LHammonds]

My personal belief is that it has something to do with the game engine itself and not windows or vista, no matter what machine you have.

If this is true, how come I have not experienced this problem? I have played this game to the end and explored all over the place.

 

The one problem that I noted were crashes when exploring the wastes and NOT saving my game periodically. It is a crash that I can reasonably predict and can avoid by using the savegame option. This is likely due to cell caching like in Oblivion.

 

I do not believe that the problem is 100% software or 100% hardware but more of a complex combination of game code + direct x + hardware drivers + hardware + other running processes.

 

When playing Oblivion, I was getting frustrated with the periodic crashes I was experiencing but it turned out that I needed to terminate all HP*.exe processes running in memory because when the HP software tried to do an update check, it caused the game to crash. Once that bit of information was discovered, I did not have problems crashing anymore except due to mods...not even the dreaded CTD when exiting the game which was experienced by so many others.

 

My point is this...describe when, where, how the crash happens and your system specs (hardware, drivers, running processes) and we "might" just figure something out with enough data gathered. We all know my specs and they are an example of a system that does NOT have the CTD issues.

 

LHammonds

[dragonpen61]

Have had good and bad times with (or with out) crashes.

 

Advice gained from my brother (he is a Computer Scientist by degree and an experienced computer tech) and forums etc. has helped. Reduced modding has helped, for example, and deactivating programs running in the background.

 

But given these factors I would also like to point out that very rarely have I had to go to so much trouble with other games to get them running properly (or is my memory playing tricks on me? No, I can safely say this is the case.)

 

My conclusion is that being calm, doing research and accepting good advise is wise

BUT

Also that Bethesda needs badly to do some more work on its engine because I had the same exact problems using Oblivion.

 

I still play both games and continue, at times, to have problems which, thankfully, I can fix with some careful effort.

 

thanks!

[SaintJames420]

Mr. Admin

 

what do you mean by Hp exe.'s is it the automated runtime's in the backround or the update's to the sytem firmware itself....I to have a periodic problem of crash's in the wasteland andwas wondering how you fixed this problem....(if you where able)

 

If you cold offer the advice of the specific exe's it would help a lot.

 

 

THANKS!

[Nick98z28]

I can run the game stable for hours on end. But if i ALT+TAB, minimize the game for a moment then go back to it. It will crash about 10 minutes later.

[oxmox]

Same here i have so many crashes, seems like the game has some problems. Window mode could help a bit and if you mix up modifications crashes can happen a lot more.

 

The internet is full of crash problems with this game, some tips may help.

[Conscripted]

I've tried all the usual things to keep it from crashing, stopping background operations, reducing graphics settings, updating all drivers, etc. and it still crashes (takes a little longer to crash is all). It seems to crash for no apparent reason. I learned to save religiously before doing anything and again if I lasted for more than ten minutes of walking.

 

I pinpointed one of the problems being that the minimum system requirement is an ATI X850 and I only have a X700 and assumed that was the reason why I was having so many problems. But since so many other people have also been having these problems, I don't think that is the only reason.

 

Laptop

AMD Turion 64, ML-37 Processor

1GB RAM

ATI X700 256MB

Legacy sound, network, etc.

[zmily]

hello ppl :) my fallout is crashing alot sometimes even before i can get out of megaton, and it sometimes runs perfectly untill my beutyfull pc overheats.. i'm running 30-40 mods..

 

the majorety of ctd is when i'm either going in to or out of a building and sometimes i can get kinda "stuck" in an outside area.. say if i quick save outside, then when i walk away from that location say 10 meters i get a little stutter and sudden ctd. i start up the game load my quick save and try to walk away and blam! stutter and ctd up to 5-6 times.. and then all is suddenly good again and i can game another day...

 

Bethesda has probably gotten something wrong with this game, but then again. i probably have gotten somethin wrong too..

 

anyways my spec is this

 

win xp sp3

xfx geforce 8800gts 500m 640mb gddr3

creative sb x-fi gamer

amd athlon 64 x2 6000+3.0ghz (water cooled)

asus m2n32-sli deluxe

two corsair value s pc5300 ddr2 2048mb

 

and a 40" flat and a 19" flat in dual mode..

 

oh! and sometimes i use one humungus fan blowing directy into the pc for extra cooling on a hot day.. it actually helps the stabillity of fallout quite signifcantly...

[Conscripted]

I forgot to mention that It doesn't seem to matter whether or not I'm running mods. If it will run with mods it will crash about the same. Some mods will crash on load and I just don't use those.