Ok, done everything i can think of. I need help.

[Shinmuriel]

I bought the windows LIVE GoTY edition Fallout, it comes with two disks. One game and one DLC disk. I read the instructions and followed them as closely as possibly (put in disk one then run disk two, hard stuff I know right?). I am crashing when i exit the vault repeatedly, I have installed the game 6 times. I run vista 64 and placed the game in C-Bethesda-Fallout 3 and not program files.

 

I heard you cannot run windows LIVE games without windows LIVE. I do not have games for windows LIVE installed unless the Disks for Fallout installed it because well... The instruction book didn't say to install Games for windows LIVE. Not sure if this is the problem. Does anyone have any insightful advice, im getting very tired of hearing the baby crying from the opening scene every hour while i reinstall over and over trying to get it working. Thanks.

[Shinmuriel]

Hmm after a few more installs ive concluded the crashing is from having graphics settings to high. But damn, I don't play on Skynet but I have two gforce 9800's with sli and 4 gig of ram with 1 gig on the cards and a decent processor. It recommended High settings so I went with Ultra high of course and it crashed. So i went with high and it still crashed. Hell its even crashing randomly when I go into Vats on medium settings. I find it hard to believe this is how the game should run. Directx is up to date and I have all current drivers. Does this game not like SLI? What am I missing?

[anokii]

I reckon your hit with the multi-core bug;

 

Check out:

 

http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html

 

Essential read (albeit long) IMHO.

 

Try updating or removing Games for Windows Live - it does cause problems: http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1086

and if your using a multi-core CPU;

 

Add or change the following in Fallout.ini (this is documented in that tweak guide)

iNumHWThreads=2

bUseThreadedAI=1

[Johnydeath13]

Just put you're computer on default settings. Or you can go to low settings. I had the same problems when I first started playing the game.