Random CTD GOTY edition

[pdonettes]

My game randomly CTD when I am playing. I am only running 3/4 mods. multiple esm for mods makes it a little fuzzy.

I have:

Lings shop

Jessie

max level workaround

wasteland mastery

Weapon mod kits (all)

I use FOSE, and I use fo3edit.

I read the readme's. I follow detailed instructions. I even read the manual for fo3edit, which is longer than war and peace. no matter what I do, I still get random CTD wandering the wilderness, or (more commonly) when entering or exiting the following 3 areas : megaton, tenpenny tower, rivet city. I don't feel like I'm asking a lot of the game to run these couple mods. I have an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor with 4g memory and 2 sli 9800gt vid cards. And since this may be related, sometimes the bottom half of the screen gets weird, like, it moves around independently of the top half (only when playing fallout 3) I have removed all of these mods individually and still have the issues. Help?

[evilneko]

I seem to remember Fallout 3 not liking SLI too much. I've never done any SLI. Can it be disabled via software, so that only one card is used? If so that might work.

[anokii]

Check out: http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html (long read but more than worth it)

 

I think he mentions SLI in there - I'm sure I saw somewhere that it is a pain to get up and running and from memory drivers were the big issue.

Always cover the basics (these are the most common causes of start CTD's):

 

- are you patched to 1.7?

- upgrade / remove G4WL (Games for windows Live)

- have you modified your fallout.ini for multi-core CPU

- have you done a default install (e.g. installed to C:\Program Files\.... ) and you run Win7 / Vista - if so uninstall and reinstall to a directory outside of C:\Program Files (e.g. C:\Games): Note that the this doesn't always fix start up CTD's but if you mod it's really a must do because of UAC.