Modded Fallout freezing problem

[theEddster]

I have modded Fallout 3 recently following Gopher's fantastic YouTube guide, however as I'm guessing some of you know not everything on that guide is up to date. For instance I have used FOIP and not Blackened because whenever I loaded the Blackened mod page all I would get is a black screen, this was the only deviation from the recommended guide that I followed. Now the problem. Fallout loads fine, but while running the game it will freeze at any random time frequently. It could freeze 2 minutes in or 10 minutes into the game, all the textures look fine no troubles with frame rate it will just freeze. I have done the fix for the multi-core problem and even reduced the number of usable cores to 1 to be sure it is not that such problem that is freezing Fallout.

 

If anyone out there has any suggestions I'd be very grateful, my final resort will be to uninstall everything and start from scratch which I really would like to avoid. Thanks.

[prensa]

theEddster - Hello!

 

"It could freeze 2 minutes in or 10 minutes into the game"

Really does sound like the Fallout 3 multi core bug, the randomness is a particular giveaway.

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

 

"It could freeze 2 minutes in or 10 minutes into the game"

 

Can I just double check you've edited the correct .ini, people often get the wrong one.

 

There's one in the Fallout 3 folder called Fallout_default.ini that's often mistaken for the main .ini, making the change to that won't fix the problem as the Fallout_default.ini is only a sort of backup for when the .ini gets recreated.

 

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

Edited February 12, 2014 by prensa

[theEddster]

I can see the Fallout_default.ini which is the one I edited but not the FALLOUT.ini it is possible that I may have deleted the FALLOUT.ini by mistake when replacing the .ini file to begin with. If the default is a fall back file could it be possible that I copy the default and create a new .ini file from the default and name it FALLOUT.ini? The only other .ini file I can find within the Fallout 3 folder is the preferences file.

 

Thank you for the reply and sorry for my idiocy.

[Purr4me]

run the games launcher, it will re-create a new ini file for you.

 

kitty

[theEddster]

Nope, still the same issue. I even tried removing the extra code to see if it runs without it and it did the same thing, although there was a noticeable difference in load times when changing the number of cores it is restricted too. But still I'm at square one. It is a heavily modded version of Fallout 3 I am running so I'll uninstall all mods then run the game again to see whether it is any of the mods affecting the game.

[Purr4me]

can you post an out put of the plugin .txt file? I would like to see what your running

[theEddster]

I can't post the list of plugins due to having already uninstalled a lot of the mods however I can give you a list of all the mods I was / will be running?

[Purr4me]

I can't post the list of plugins due to having already uninstalled a lot of the mods however I can give you a list of all the mods I was / will be running?

 

 

that would be fine.

[prensa]

theEddster - Hello!

Note that the .ini you're looking for is not in the Fallout 3 folder with the default & your Data folder, it's in the location I mentioned above in your Documents folder where your save game folder is.

"is possible that I may have deleted the FALLOUT.ini by mistake when replacing the .ini file to begin with."

Unlikely as it's in a different location to the Default one.

Besides if the .ini was missing Fallout 3 simply remakes it when you launch your game.

Are you using STEAM, as I've heard it said STEAM users .ini's get refreshed on launch meaning the Default .ini must be changed too.

Though you should still have an FALLOUT.ini in the documents folder after launching.

"If the default is a fall back file could it be possible that I copy the default and create a new .ini file from the default and name it FALLOUT.ini?"

Yes you can, you'd make a copy of the Default one & rename that:

FALLOUT

& place that in the Documents Fallout3 folder mentioned.

But that's what the game will do if there's no .ini there.

 

Just to cover all the bases, FALLOUT.ini will just appear as block capital FALLOUT in the documents folder as .ini will be a recognised extension & thus hidden.

 

Prensa

Edited February 13, 2014 by prensa

[theEddster]

So my little test has proven that it is one or two of the mods causing the freeze, just ran the game for 30 minutes (the longest I've managed to run it) and no freezing. Once I install all the mods I'll post a list of the plugins in their order, would it be more helpful to show the list from the nexus installer or is there another way?