help getting fallout 3 not to crash

[fiorra]

To make a long story short I got a new computer and transfered my games onto it. They all work except Fallout 3 which always freezes after about a min of trying to play in the game. I thought maybe i would have to go back to fileplanet and redownload it which i did and installed again. Didnt change any thing... I tried it with no patches,tried it with patches 1.1 and 1.7 but didnt change any thing. With or with out mods it made no diffrence. I tried running it as admin as well as in compatability mode for windows xp (this computer is windows 7) and it still didnt work. sigh :( I know very little about computers so I am sure there is some thing I have to be missing here and since I dont know how many times I can down load from fileplanet before I have to buy it again I decided to ask.

 

My system specs are windows 7 64 bit, 4gb ram, Intel core i7 cpu 860 @ 2.8 GHz 2.8 and 500 gb hard drive. Any help that any one could offer would really be appreciated. Oblivion and morrowind are running just fine on it as are my other games so I dont understand whats going on here.

[fap6000]

/bump

 

You'd have better luck either asking Bethesda support or Fileplanet support. Then if you ask me, if you have to download it anytime you want to install it, why waste yer money.

 

 

[Fonger]

let's start with the obvious

 

1 - you have Windows 7 --- did you install to the default location --- note - this is a very BAD idea

 

2 - you transferred your games to a new computer, did you delete your fallout3.ini (from your game saves area) -- note this is a very GOOD idea

[fiorra]

let's start with the obvious

 

1 - you have Windows 7 --- did you install to the default location --- note - this is a very BAD idea

 

2 - you transferred your games to a new computer, did you delete your fallout3.ini (from your game saves area) -- note this is a very GOOD idea

 

OK thank you very much to both for responding. I will try both when I get home and hope it will fix the problem. Is the desktop a safe place to put the files? As for the fallout3.ini no I did not as I didn't even know the game could run with out it but I will try that as well. Would it be better to just reinstall the game and then just transfer the data folder and dump it in or would I need to delete it any way?

 

Edit: and to respond to the other post I will try asking them as well if this doesn't work though the people here seem to know more about fixing problems than they do oddly enough.

 

That seemed to work for the most part thank you very much. Just have some random freeze zones that i cant walk through but that was the same on the other computer :).

[Fonger]

the ini file is tuned to the computer its generated on

 

and running the game will create a new one if its missing

 

so when you transfer your game, deleting this file is a good idea.

 

you could consider keeping all your save games but otherwise deleting the folder in my-games then installing the game - and after it runs properly, putting your old saves back in - usually not needed.