irbakey Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 A while back, when I first got this game, I had some issues with a graphics card, so I upgraded to a GeForce 9800, and then it ran PERFECT... after about a year or 2, I decided to play again.. well, it plays OK when I'm doing random stuff like running around the small towns and sometimes around through Wasteland. However, recently, I've decided to do the quests again and now it lags so bad, I can't shoot. I have to use the console command of "kill" to kill the things I need. For a while, it kept crashing during the final battle against the Enclave when I had to follow Liberty Prime until I decided to reinstall and delete my old settings but kept the saves. Now I'm playing Broken Steel, and the ENTIRE expansion, so far, has been nothing but lag lag lag. So bad, that when I press forward, it'll take up to 15-30 seconds to take a single step. My gun shots don't even really shoot. I even lowered my settings to the lowest, but I still get the lag and it crashes as soon as I enter the second room inside the satellite relay station. I just reformatted my computer, so it's 100% clean, I don't have anything running in the background and my Task Manager shows that Fallout 3 is only taking a max of 50% system, and the highest my system gets is 68% usage in all. This is going to sound pathetic, but these are my system specs... don't laugh, I know they're horrible... Windows XP SP3AMD 3500+ 3.0 GHz (Yes, still a single core...)2GB RamnVidia GeForce 9800GX I've also updated to the 1.7 patch.. you can't tell me it's my computer specs because it used to run perfectly =( Any ideas what it may be? Something that may help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irbakey Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 halp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadin Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 I'm clueless. If I had to give you advice, I would say make sure you don't have anything that requires multiple cores.It really just sounds like random bad luck. Maybe worn out graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerialz Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Maybe your HD is heavily fragmented, use a defragmentation utility like windows defrag to check if that's the case. Also, do other games run fine or is it just FO3 causing a lagfest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roquefort Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 No harm in checking for malware in your system. If all else fails though, a re-installation (with a thorough clean-out of the registry plus defrag) might be the line of least resistance to take. I tend to do that when accumulated crufticles start to cause excessive lags & crashes :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irbakey Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 I had JUST reformatted my computer. A complete cleaning of my system + re-installation of windows. For a bit, the only thing installed was FO3 because I really wanted to test if it was my computer problem. So I know my HDD wasn't fragmented at all, or had any malware and I've reinstalled FO3 tons, lol. It's also only FO3 creating these problems. I can play FFXI, WoW, Sims 3, and other high-resource games with no problems. However, like Nadin said... I do have the idea as well that it could be a worn out graphics card. It's not that old though, but, for some reason, my computer has been getting really hot lately. It keeps going from 71-73 degrees F to 81-85. I even caught it at 92 a while back. I decided to open the case, take one of my three hard drives out. I have a small fan constantly blowing onto my hard drives and for a while, had a larger fan blowing on my motherboard towards my CPU and PCI slots to help cool them down. The case is still off and it's also in a room all by itself except for a TV that's only on for short periods of time. I'm not THAT worried about it really. I can live without it, or I can use my girlfriend's laptop to play around, or maybe even finish the game again, lol. I'm HOPING to get a new job.. sometime soon <.< and the first thing I'm going to do is upgrade like hell. Definitely starting with a new motherboard and cpu. If the game still has problems, I'll blame the graphics card and possibly buy a new one or two of those and x-fire them. =D Thanks guys, I knew it was a bit tricky to understand when you don't have it in front of you and you tried anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilneko Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 90 Fahrenheit may be uncomfortable to us, but it's nothing to a computer (I WISH my machine ran that cool!). It's like a cool fall day. 70-90 Celsius, on the other hand... Well, let's just say the thermal tolerance for an Athlon CPU per AMD's specs is 90 C and leave it at that. One thing that comes to mind is ffdshow. If you have a codec pack installed, you likely have ffdshow. You can find it in the start menu group the codec pack added. Make sure Fallout 3 is in the exclusion list for the audio decoder. Another thing to try is uninstall the .NET framework and then reinstall it. However your problems are so severe I don't think either of those are likely to fix it. What mods if any are you running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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