ElfridFox Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 This happened before and after I installed the 1.7 patch, I first installed the game and tried playing but as soon as I loaded up the game it came up for a few seconds..was dark and then gave me a windows error report. Then installed the patch and well...it didn't help at all. I've read suggestions all over the place but most are dated like a year old or so and don't work or links are dead.I use WinXP by the way.I've heard many people say they tested it on another computer of theirs that has Vista and it runs fine, but not for their windows XP computer and thats usually the only difference of the 2. but the answer to why is never given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair91 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Have you tried updating sound card/video card drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfridFox Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 My drivers are updated already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quetzlsacatanango Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Running mods? You are probably running one without a required .esm. Run FO3edit and see what error(s) it gives you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfridFox Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Nah, I don't have any mods installed, never got a chance to really. Soon as I got the game I installed it to try it out a little first and instead I encountered this problem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair91 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Could you please post your system specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfridFox Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 I did that "can you run it" thing on that one site and I should be able to at least play with a little lag at low graphics. Radeon xpress 200 series126mb ramAmd athlon 64 processor 3500+and 1.4gigs of ramand win xp ofcourse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 this problem was seen last yearhttp://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=105513 you'll notice that he had no replies. Just guessing, but maybe the radeon x 200 is not up to this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfridFox Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Yeah I've seen it in really old topics on other forums elsewhere as well, just thought that by now there might be a solution though. May be awhile till I get a new graphics card though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Yeah I've seen it in really old topics on other forums elsewhere as well, just thought that by now there might be a solution though. May be awhile till I get a new graphics card though.Ok, so you understand that your video card has serious difficulties with this game. But that leads to a completely different question . . . "How to get this game running on a marginal video card" I know that both Oblivion and Fallout have (had) research projects devoted to this question, but haven't followed their progress. There have been reports of "ways" . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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