Grumpfbork Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 A couple of days ago F3 just worked fine (only some random CTDs every now and then) on WinXP SP 3. And now, all of a sudden, it refuses to start. When I hit the "play" button in the games main menu I can see a black window or sometime the first picture from the slide show and then I am just back on my desktop. No error message at all. The same happens when I use FOMM. The strange thing is, that I did not change anything on my rig. No new drivers, check for viruses is negative. Usually I would just re-install the game, but I do not have my disc here. So any idea would be very appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair91 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Did you installed any mods? If so what's your load order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpfbork Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 Did you installed any mods? If so what's your load order? Ha! I searched the web for hours without finding an answer and you had the right thought at the first moment! :thanks: It turned out that it had something to do with my load order. I guess I accidently changed my load order somehow, stupid me... I unchecked everything except the Fallout3.esm and voila... the game loaded just fine. After that I compared my actual load order with a backup of the last working load order and for some reason they were different. After restoring the load order everything runs fine. Thank you! Btw, I just stumbled over your BetterSound-mod yesterday. It was the reason I fired my Fallout up again after a couple of weeks of Fallout abstinence... funny coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair91 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Did you installed any mods? If so what's your load order? Ha! I searched the web for hours without finding an answer and you had the right thought at the first moment! :thanks: It turned out that it had something to do with my load order. I guess I accidently changed my load order somehow, stupid me... I unchecked everything except the Fallout3.esm and voila... the game loaded just fine. After that I compared my actual load order with a backup of the last working load order and for some reason they were different. After restoring the load order everything runs fine. Thank you! Btw, I just stumbled over your BetterSound-mod yesterday. It was the reason I fired my Fallout up again after a couple of weeks of Fallout abstinence... funny coincidence. You're welcome, glad to help out. Wow, I feel so.... honored, :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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