I love crashing and slowness

[roquefort]

I can't really see how upgrading to Win7 would be any solution in itself. Fallout3 works fine on XP, and Win7 will just use more of your memory & resources than XP.

[elustran]

I only mentioned Windows 7 because I'm considering installing it if I need to reinstall my OS anyway.

[elustran]

I am still having problems, even on a vanilla reinstall with a new game. See my update on my master post.

[RastahMan]

Try few tips that can solve crashes

 

First tip:

1. Click Start

2. Click “All Programs”.

3. Go to the ffdshow folder.

4. Click “Audio decoder configuration.”

5. In the left hand pane, click “Info & debug.” or "DirectShow control".This is the second entry in the list.

6. In the right hand pane, near the bottom, find a check box labelled “Don’t use ffdshow in:”

7. Check that box, and in the text box underneath (it lights up when you check the check box), add “fallout3.exe” (don’t include the quotes). If there is already something in that box, put a semi-colon ( ; ) after what’s already there, and fallout3.exe after that. Do NOT use spaces, since ffdshow will think that’s part of the filename. A valid entry would be “explorer.exe;fallout3.exe” (without quotes).

8. Finally, click “Ok” and start Fallout 3.

 

Second:

1.Turn off autosave on sleep,fast travel and wait(sounds stupid but it help fix crashes)

[elustran]

Yeah - the newer releases of ffdshow actually have Fallout3.exe already included in their exclusions list. I added the FOSE loader too, just for good measure.

 

I also tried turning off autosave when I was first trying to fix this problem. I haven't done that yet with my reinstall, and the only time it's crashed on me so far (after only about an hour of experimenting) was inside the Brass Lantern as I was about to open the door to the upstairs portion, not during or immediately after an autosave.

 

Further, the game ran fine just a few months ago, autosaves included, without any extra fooling around in the .ini or anything else.

[RastahMan]

Maybe some of mods cause crash in that area.

[elustran]

Maybe some of mods cause crash in that area.

No mods are currently installed.

[Nadin]

...at this point, I think is that your best hope is to chop your computer to itty-bitty pieces, burn them, and mix the ashes with holy water.

Try clearing out any extra files bloating the folder.

[Nimboss]

 

Further, the game ran fine just a few months ago, autosaves included, without any extra fooling around in the .ini or anything else.

 

Same here, actually I reinstalled the whole main game comp to get rid of anything not "Bethesda FO3" approved, but still got CTD ?!

 

One little obscure thing is to lower water generation in advanced part of the FalloutLauncher of FO3 from high to medium. Nonsense you say? well in my case it solved the whole issue!

I got this tip from some guy in the main Bethesda technical issues thread about CTD and lag when gaming. Take a look and search over there they might even nailed this particular issue down to a fix( I think it is related to some changed shader assembler coding that the original Bethesda game don't pass when you upgrade graphics drivers/DirectX).

 

To replicate my issue keep swirl around your mice in game in circles (I know it can make you dizzy :sick: but it will show if you have issues with getting all resources needed to smooth game playing ) If screen update freeze short moments then and now, and actually get worse over time, and at last kick you to a CTD state. Well, then you might have the same problem.

[elustran]

 

 

One little obscure thing is to lower water generation in advanced part of the FalloutLauncher of FO3 from high to medium. Nonsense you say? well in my case it solved the whole issue!

 

Most of my crashes have been indoors - were you also having CTDs even indoors, and, if so, did changing the water generation fix that?