I love crashing and slowness

[Nimboss]

After time yes, I started a new game to get a fresh start and it worked as long as to get outside of Vault 101. Then the funniness started. This escalates over time and in my case I got different types of endings... CTD, Freeze but still with sound, totally stuck when transfered between in and out doors u.s.w.

Getting worse over time, kind of memory leak or trashing internal memory in the game until there is no resources left or totally corrupt and the game bail out.

After the "water" setting trick I can play for hours again without issues.

[RastahMan]

 

 

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?

 

This should fix the problem(If you have a multi-core CPU):

- Open the folder My documents / My Games / Fallout3

- Edit the file FALLOUT.ini.

- Inside FALLOUT.ini look for a group called [general].

- Inside the general group, after all the configuration parameters, just copy and paste the following 2 lines:

 

bUseThreadedAI=1

iNumHWThreads=2

[elustran]

This should fix the problem(If you have a multi-core CPU):

- Open the folder My documents / My Games / Fallout3

- Edit the file FALLOUT.ini.

- Inside FALLOUT.ini look for a group called [general].

- Inside the general group, after all the configuration parameters, just copy and paste the following 2 lines:

 

bUseThreadedAI=1

iNumHWThreads=2

I've actually tried that on both a vanilla game and a modded game, including setting HW threads to 4, and several other threading options. I got no love. I don't know if I've tried both 4 and 2 on my reinstall, though.

 

Since trying to fix it has been stressful, I haven't gotten around to trying FO3 again in a few days, but I'll try the water trick next time too.

 

I was going to give Oblivion a roll too, just to see if maybe I'm having a hardware problem that's affecting the gamebryo engine in particular.