Suddenly stopped working!

[demidekidasu]

Hi everyone,

 

Never ever had problems with Fallout 3 until today. To make matters worse, I'm currently in the middle of working on several mods!

 

Suddenly, as of today, my Fallout 3 installation is broken somehow. I start the game up and there is no music in the main menu. I try to load a game—any game, even those which have always worked for me in the past, to rule out any corrupt save issues—and the game locks up. If I try to exit the game, it locks up, forcing me to CTRL+ALT+DEL the process. If I ALT+F4 or type QQQ into the console, the game exits and disappears from the running task list in Task Manager, but the process remains in the processes list.

 

What the hell?!?!?

 

Things I have tried so far:

- Deleted my rendererinfo.txt to force the creation of a new one

- Completely uninstalled ENB Series and I do mean completely

- Launched the game with no mods active

- Deleted my ini files to force the creation of new ones

- Disabled SLI, in fact I physically removed the second card from the machine

- Confirmed that other games are working fine on my system, including Skyrim.

- Tried various different graphics option combinations

- Restarted my computer several times

- Updated graphics drivers, just in case

- Punched the desk

- Shouted plenty of bad language out loud

 

My rig:

- i7 950 @3.8GHz

- 12GB Corsair Dominator GT

- Nvidia GTX 470 (was previously 2x SLI but only 1 now)

- Corsair AX1200 PSU (1.2kw, more than enough juice...)

- ASUS Rampage III Extreme

- Quite sufficient cooling, temps are all good.

 

Please, if any of you can help me, I would be very grateful. This is the only game I care about playing these days and, with my health the way it is, it's all I feel like doing...

[Billy1969]

Some suggestions:

 

1)You might try the Intel Graphics Bypass d3d9.dll that can be found here on Nexus, look for Intel Graphics in search

2)Did you check your HDD, maybe a bad cluster formed itself in a vital file to launch Fallout?

3) rename your meshes folder to meshestest, launch the game, does it load ok? You have one or more corrupted meshes in your meshes folder, do the same with the textures folder if the meshes didn't work

4)Backup all your mods and savegame data, completely remove Fallout from your computer, preferably with an uninstaller like the one from Iobit that deep scans your drive and registry for remaining files, then reinstall, try to launch the game, if it works, restore all your backuped data and try again.

[demidekidasu]

Some suggestions:

 

1)You might try the Intel Graphics Bypass d3d9.dll that can be found here on Nexus, look for Intel Graphics in search

2)Did you check your HDD, maybe a bad cluster formed itself in a vital file to launch Fallout?

3) rename your meshes folder to meshestest, launch the game, does it load ok? You have one or more corrupted meshes in your meshes folder, do the same with the textures folder if the meshes didn't work

4)Backup all your mods and savegame data, completely remove Fallout from your computer, preferably with an uninstaller like the one from Iobit that deep scans your drive and registry for remaining files, then reinstall, try to launch the game, if it works, restore all your backuped data and try again.

 

I appreciate your advice, however...

 

1) I don't even have Intel graphics. Completely unrelated.

2) Possible, but I'm not having issues launching the game.

3) But there's no music on the main menu, for example, and there's nothing wrong with the music files as I've checked each one individually.

4) I might have to try this, which is a real pain in the backside...

[demidekidasu]

Re-install didn't fix it. I was sure to check for registry entries too.

 

I will try re-installing to another drive.

[demidekidasu]

Well, this is quite surprising.

 

I installed to a different drive and the problem prevailed. Then, I realised I installed a free video-editing program last night called Kate's Video Toolkit...I uninstalled that and the problem has gone away.

 

How on earth can another program cause this sort of issue?

 

Another dodgy thing about that program is that they were asking me to "like" their Facebook page in order to register my copy of their software. Naturally, I didn't—I won't support such lame marketing strategies.

 

So, a word of warning to others, I suppose: Beware of Kate's Video Toolkit!

[Billy1969]

Well, this is quite surprising.

 

I installed to a different drive and the problem prevailed. Then, I realised I installed a free video-editing program last night called Kate's Video Toolkit...I uninstalled that and the problem has gone away.

 

How on earth can another program cause this sort of issue?

 

Another dodgy thing about that program is that they were asking me to "like" their Facebook page in order to register my copy of their software. Naturally, I didn't—I won't support such lame marketing strategies.

 

So, a word of warning to others, I suppose: Beware of Kate's Video Toolkit!

 

Probably this program installed an audio or video codec that interfered with Fallout, maybe ffdshow not restricted to whitelisted programs, by uninstalling it it removed also the interfering codec.

 

I suggested the Intel graphics .dll since it solves some strange crashes, even without having an Intel card, I for example have an Nvidia one, well to start a new game in Fallout without the intel .dll I always crash after the birth scene, once I bypassed that scene with the intel .dll active, I can save and then restore my enb and fallout.ini's to match my setup, load my save and continue play, fortunately I don't start a new game often, but without that .dll I would not be able to start a new character, so I thought it was something to try