Peter Sewell Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Hello yesterday i took deleivery of my brand new computer and a copy of fallout 3 for PCIntel Core i7 2.66ghzX58 Extreme overclocking motherboard by gigabyteGTX 280 graphics card1x 150gig 10000rpm HDD1x 1Tb 7500rpm HDDVista 64Bit6 gigs og RAM Although it installes fine, whenever i start a new game, it crashes at the loading screen.I have been going over various forums and so far i have tried:Updating video card driversPatching gameInstalling vista codecsPutting the graphics to a lower settingmaking the sound stereorunning as administratorrunning in XP SP2 compatability mode. If you have the same problem, please post here, the more people complain, the more likeley betheda will do something If you are a dev, please report this to your higher-ups if you have any suggestions that worked for post here as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skotte Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Also make sure your DiretX is up to date at least nov 08, that caused me to have trouble in the beginning. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 This rig should not have trouble running at high graphics levels and don't need compatible with XP mode. It should not need to run in stereo too, but here there is something you can do, for testing purpose, if you use onboard sound: disable sound and music at the fallout3.ini you find in the fallout's folder into the documents folder. This is because the engine is known to have strange issues with them. You should follow the advices on this site. Mainly the multicore tweaks. A good practice on Vista is avoiding install any game into the Program Files folder. Albeit this should not bring the issue you have you'll avoid several future troubles, mainly if you come to use mods. This is because Vista treats this folder with some special 'not too smart' security levels. You may install this and any other game at any other folder and preferably in another partition than C:. If disabling the sound does not solve the problem try deleting that ini file above (you can make a backup first)... and let the game recreate it from scratch. It's not enough to reinstall the game since the contents of that folder(the fallout's one inside the Documents), as too the /data in the game's install folder is kept. You shall manually delete that ini. This is known to solve some crash issues (indeed if you have mods and reinstalled the game without cleaning the /data, something that could cause the issue would be there to mess the things again). for now is all I can think, since there is not much information to deal with. If is the case you shall supply us with the information about the mods you use and it's load order. Good luck. PS: There is one thing I did not recall before. Vista abandoned the DirectSound in favor of the OpenSound. This created troubles with some games, although it was just lack of hardware acceleration and the EAX features. Newer games are being released with that opensound, but it's not the Fallout3's case. To have hardware acceleration and EAX AND you have a Creative's sound card, you'll need the Alchemy application from Creative Labs and, at least to my knowing date, create an entry to the game since it was(is) not cataloged yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overload1977 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 also have a look here http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 also have a look here http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html good luckYou brought to my attention the way I placed the link it may pass unperceived as such. Most may think I was talking actually "this site" if don't pass the mouse's cursor over it :) thanks for it and kudos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overload1977 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 also have a look here http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html good luckYou brought to my attention the way I placed the link it may pass unperceived as such. Most may think I was talking actually "this site" if don't pass the mouse's cursor over it :) thanks for it and kudos. yea i saw it but some people will not, just here to help :thumbsup: some colour always helps to :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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