Fallout 3 freezes when holstering/drawing weapon and while reloading.

[pyrate999]

I am running windows 7, 2 core computer, and it was freezing regularly for a while. Then i changed the FALLOUT.ini so it was using more memory, which stopped the random freezes, and it was running smoothly for a while, until i got into a fight. The moment i drew my gun, the game froze for 15 seconds or so, and then when i reloaded said gun, the same thing happened. I tried this with every gun, so it isn't the gun. Does anyone know why this is happening? This is a really great game, and i can't play it with these freezes. (Note, this only happens in the capital wasteland. The dlc work almost perfectly.) Edit: It appears to have solved itself after i rebooted the computer. No need for any more assistance. Yet.

Edited December 6, 2013 by pyrate999

[prensa]

pyrate999 - Hello!

Could be the Fallout 3 multi core bug, it's the most common cause of freezing in the game.

Fallout 3 has trouble with multi core computers, mainly with ones that have more than two cores & use hyperthreading.

There is a fix, you need to edit your Fallout 3 .ini file.

The one you want to change is:

For XP:

My Documents\My Games\Fallout3\

For Vista & Win7:

Documents\My Games\Fallout3

The file you want will be called:

FALLOUT.ini

Open the .ini with Notepad & change this line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

& insert this line under it:

iNumHWThreads=2

Save & close your ini.

Hope this helps!

Prensa

[pyrate999]

It's not that problem, i've fixed that already. :(