Someone with lots of mods, can you share your list?

[GruppaA]

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I have been trying and trying to get my Fallout 3 to run flawlessly again, after an 8 month break and uninstall of the game, but the mods I seem to download either don't work with each other, or something else, because I had tons of crashes.

 

I'm finally running a somewhat successfuly modded version. Here is a screenshot of the mods in my NMM.

 

http://i.imgur.com/61RvrMn.jpg

 

And here is my cpu-z report. http://valid.canardpc.com/2821132

 

My version of Fallout 3 GOTY edition is the UK version. I bought it on ebay. And I didn't see that it said UK, but that should not matter.

 

My GPU drivers are always updated. My audio drivers are updated. My Dirext X 11 is updated.

 

If one of you runs a heavilly modded Fallout 3, and you get no errors, no crashes, and you have mods that improve the graphics, expand gameplay, give new weapons, new armor,... and so on. Can you post a screenshot of your NMM list, so that one can try to duplicate your success?

 

Thank you

[pmmurphy]

I have 150+ mods installed and stability is an issue. Instead of expecting my game to not crash i have developed my playstyle around the crashes.

 

Here are some minor things you can do to help increase stability on fallout 3's game engine.

 

#1 Quicky save ever 2 - 4 seconds in smart locations.

 

Places such as megaton and DC are unsaveable locations if you are running many mods. I don't know what mods make them unsaveable but they are. So its best to just not save there completely. There are some locations in DC that are saveable.

 

#2 Multiple saves are bad. 2 files only. 1 for your quick save. 1 for your full save.

Multiple saves causes instability. When you have many saves, eventually game gets more unstable. But it is still possible to continue progression.

 

#3 Play until your save gets corrupt, then restart the game from the beginning. Unless your full save is no longer corrupt.

 

#4 If you have many saves, and your game is uncorrupt do this minor check.

 

a) load your save and instantly try to quick save in a (smart location).

 

i) did it crash? If so reload your save and kill your character with console.

ii) after killing with console it will automatically reload, then repeat the process.

iii) if you are now capable of saving it is possible to continue progression with your playthrough and you will have to repeat this process everytime you load your game.

 

 

 

These are all minor things i have learned to go by while playing fallout 3. I progress fine, enjoy the game. I have beaten the whole game pluss all DLCs and many many many side quests. I have learned tricks to closing / reopening fallout 3 quickly, so the downtime of when i have to reopen the game is fairly short.

 

I will share my tricks

 

I use a laptop made by acer it has windows 7.

 

When the game crashes sometimes i no longer have a mouse to click on things. So in order to stop the script that hides my mouse i have to press ctrl+alt+delete to open that extra screen that takes me to my options on if i want to open task manager. When this screen pops up all you have to do is click, now your mouse is retrieved and you can open task manager and close the game.

 

When the game crashes if you don't have this ability, you should run some kind of back ground software preferably fraps or some kind of streaming software that utilizes your system files and flags you when you try to close it asking for your permission. The reason for this is, if you have trouble regaining your mouse, on a laptop, you can simply press the power button once without holding on it and the system will run a script that terminates all active programs. When the script hits fraps or OBS or XSPLIT fraps/obs/xsplit will flag the program and it will ask you for your permission to close it. By doing this your script that terminates all active programs will terminate fo3 and you will regain your mouse. But it won't close and shutdown your computer because it gets caught at your running program that requires your permission to close.

 

Other things you can do to increase stability is to make a merged patch.

 

But honestly, merged patches all they do is give you more stuff. They don't really contribute to stability and CTDS much. If anything they make things worse. But merged patches should be a 100% must no matter what you are doing. Always make a merged patch with fo3 edit.

 

When playing fallout 3 if you like fo3's motorcycle doing my reccomendations can be difficult as there is no simple way to deactivate fast travel. So just type this in your console. coc springvale. Then when you save, save there.

 

Springvale is a pretty save location to save at, i have yet to download a mod that makes the cells in springvale corrupt on a save.

[pmmurphy]

oh yea, last but not least.

 

Deactivate all auto saving and don't download a single manager that saves for you.

 

The computer isn't smart enough to know when not and when to save. So if you have auto save on and some save manager it wil try to save in corrupt cells repeadily and you will get a repeated crash.