CTD at launch

[ZephyrX]

 

open invitation for UAC to tap-dance on his face.

 

in all reality, this is a bad idea.

 

 

LOL - nice imagery :biggrin:

 

....I usually install to the My Games folder, but I tried creating a new folder within that to ensure that the directory wasn't the problem.....

 

Let it install to its default directories "C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3".

open invitation for UAC to tap-dance on his face.

 

in all reality, this is a bad idea.

 

Sorry, I did not think about UAC. I keep mine off. Turn UAC down to do not notify. If it is just too much danger to handle then you can just use it as a test. I just don't think installing into My Games is a good idea at this point. At least if we are talking about the My Games inside the user directory.

 

I also leave UAC off, just because I grew tired of it popping up every time I played Mass Effect. Anyway, I tried reinstalling under the default directory and it still crashed the same way. I also tried renaming all of the bik files to bik.old, ruling out some video codec incompatibility. Perhaps it is a video driver issue then since it's clearly not audio. Many GTX 275 benchmarks use FO3, so it's not a hardware issue. Do you know what driver works well with FO3 that my card supports that I can test out? I feel like it's not an ideal solution to run on old drivers, but it would be nice to know if that's the problem.

 

EDIT: I tried installing nvidia driver version 186.18 which was said to work well with FO3, but it resulted in the same crash. It could be an SLI problem, but unless there's an easy way to force one card to not take on some load (doesn't enabling SLI only allow the cards to communicate through the bridge, or does it essentially disable one card?) I can't think of anything else to test.

 

 

ZephyrX

Edited June 22, 2010 by ZephyrX

[Burba3]

hey man, i had a similar problem, try this:

 

http://download.cnet.com/InstalledCodec/3000-2094_4-10789544.html

 

1) download "InstallCodec"

2) run program

3) Disable all codecs

 

It worked for me after trying everything else, i hope it works for you,