How do you all put up with this game?

[Lawlder]

I play on a PC that was supposed to fail completely in doing so, but I've had no real problems with the game besides occasional lag and freezing due to my low specs.

[AlexxEG]

I only read the first posts so I will talk about why I put up with the game.

 

Sure, It crashed ALOT in the beginning (not sure how it's spelled) when I started using mods.

But after 2 months of tweaking, experimenting and bug fixing mods, my game is stable as F***!!!! I NEVER crash.

And I run about 90-100 mods atm. (Not cheats mods or stuff, mostly realism mods)

 

However, I started quicksaving ALL THE TIME, just incase. Since it crashed so much at the start.

Another thing to do is pick up FO3Edit, create merged patch, and go through ALL your mods. Or well, not all, but atleast big mods and create over-rides. I run about 10-15 over-rides. Without them I'm sure I would be *banned*

[Sinophile]

I love Fallout. It is fair to say, that as a person disappointed in the last 10 years of games, Fallout is tied with Bioshock as my favorite game of the decade. That being said . . .

 

It is single handedly the buggiest game I have ever played (possibly short of Fable 2). I played 3 full length playthroughs on the Xbox (~100 hours each), and in each game had no less than 3 dozen freezes. I've had missing characters, dying/vanishing quest related people, items of importance that refused to spawn, and no end of other such trouble.

 

I just now bought it on the PC, and I hate to say but its even worse. I've had, in less than 2 weeks, a good 30 freezes, as well as a save I had to backtrack from because no matter what I did it would freeze the next time I saved. Some days the game refuses to load until I reset. Yesterday, the menu theme was carrying over into gameplay. I love this game, I really do, but I wish it were a little more dependable.

Have you played Knights Of The Old Republic 1 or 2? KOTOR2 was the buggiest game I've played. I am curious as to whether you play MMOs. I believe that all the game companies opt for subscription-based games nowadays. Not only do they provide a reliable source of monthly income, but they are less likely to be pirated.

 

I want to add my name to the list of 'liars' as I have playerd through the game many times and played all the DLCs and my game has crashed maybe twice in 15 months of playig fallout. But I run windows XP which is what the game was designed for. I don't know this, but I would bet that many a player who run Vista and Windows 7 would be the ones complaining that the games is buggy; not that anyone who uses XP would have a crash free experience.

 

I am using Vista, and the game runs fine for me. I crash, at most, once every 8 hours, which is decent for a medium end laptop with a geforce 9300M

 

 

My complaint with the game is that its too bloddy easy. I think it was written for 8 year olds.

That is why there is such a thing as a difficulty slider. Regardless, the gameplay mechanics are somewhat simple, especially when you use VATS.

[SATMA]

Glitch happens.

 

Life's a glitch and then you crash.

[cloak174]

The game is 100% scripted with a thin layer of PB. I used to have frequent crashes as well, but it all got better when I got the latest patch. now I just snafu stuff when I go and try my hand at modding. :D