htomsirveauxjr Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 After waiting a good week for the new computer, there are aweful growing pains to get F3 started. I have gotten to the main menu, and logging into GFWL is fine, but it CTD when I try to load. I have tried:The busethrededai=1 in the fallout ini trickthe ffdshow thingyi believe fallout/gfwl are updated. Well, i mean it is not yelling at me anymore.just tried to remove mods and adjust load order. No luck.No luck either with running as admin, or in compatability mode.F3 is installed to the Program Files x86video card drivers are updated. And just incase these techogeek stuff rings a bell: motherboard and graphic card is asus, something about crossfire blah blah blah. I had problems like this when I first got it, but I can't remember what I did to get it working.The last computer ran windows seven at 32bit (which ran almost perfectly), now this is Win7 with 64bit. These are fresh installs of 3, gfwl and fomm. Help me folks, I'm dieing over here. Figuratively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 you are playing an old game on a new computer did you by any chance transfer your old fallout3.ini along with your game saves as doing this could easily cause your listed problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htomsirveauxjr Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 you are playing an old game on a new computer did you by any chance transfer your old fallout3.ini along with your game saves as doing this could easily cause your listed problems. 2008 and it's already old.The hard drives are still the same, so the ini did not move. Or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Yup, it seems you are using the ini that was optimized for your old computer. The ini is where the game stores information about your hardware. It doesn't know you have changed computers. It's an easy fix, just delete the Oblivion.ini file - The one in the C:\users\your user name\my documents\my games\Oblivion Then the next time you start the ga,me it will generate a new Oblivion.ini for your new hardware. You will probably have to go in and make some manual changes to your video settings as Oblivion doesn't recognize the latest video cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraktyl Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I think bben46 meant the fallout.ini in:c:\users\[your name]\My Documents\My Games\Fallout3 I'm sure you would have figured it out though. You could also run the settings program again. If you're using FOMM (which you should) it's one of the menu options at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Yes, that's what I meant. Do what he says, not what I said. It works the same in both Oblivion & Fallout 3Thanks for correcting that for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htomsirveauxjr Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 Sorry guys, deleting the ini did not work. I updated fomm, (finally) but i'm not sure what setting I should tweak. Just a complete setting drop? No, that didn't work. Thanks guys for the suggestions, please, keep em coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htomsirveauxjr Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 SUCCESS!!! Sadly for other like me, it is not a simple tweak. It will just flat refuse to run on Win 7 64 bit. You would have to get a copy of XP/Vista/7 in 32 bit, and run a partition. Luckily, I have 7 in 32, and it runs JazzJackrabbit-in-your-pants levels of beauty! Thanks to all of you guys who gave suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraktyl Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 SUCCESS!!! Sadly for other like me, it is not a simple tweak. It will just flat refuse to run on Win 7 64 bit. You would have to get a copy of XP/Vista/7 in 32 bit, and run a partition. Luckily, I have 7 in 32, and it runs JazzJackrabbit-in-your-pants levels of beauty! Thanks to all of you guys who gave suggestions! You probably have driver issues then. I run Win 7 64 bit and have no issues running any game. Fallout 3 has its crash bugs, but they are no better or worse on Win 7 64bit than they were on XP 32 bit. Glad you got it fixed though. There's more than one way to skin a cat. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htomsirveauxjr Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 You probably have driver issues then. I run Win 7 64 bit and have no issues running any game. Fallout 3 has its crash bugs, but they are no better or worse on Win 7 64bit than they were on XP 32 bit. Glad you got it fixed though. There's more than one way to skin a cat. :laugh: It is a brand new computer, so drivers arent the issue. But looks like you are one of the lucky ones with no problems then. Can somebody close this thread now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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