Khet Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Never had any issues in the past with Fallout 3 crashing like this without mods. The game randomly, and I literally mean randomly with no rhyme or reason, freezes up on me. During loading screens, during conversations, checking the pipboy, walking, combat, it doesn't matter what I'm doing, it'll freeze. sometimes it's minutes after starting up the game, sometimes hours, sometimes it freezes on the main menu. As far as I know, nothing has changed with my system to warrant these freezes. I hop on one day and voila, freezing. I've reformatted, I've reinstalled drivers, I've threatened with hammers and other bludgeon devices, and nothing seems to work. 6GB RAM3.6Ghz Quad core processorWindows 7EVGA Geforce 9800 GTXDirectX 11 (have tried 9 and 10 to with no success) Like I said, zero hardware changes since the time before random freezes and now, definately not software issues since I've reformatted twice and reinstalled all drivers. I'm out of ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneyLogic Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 After you reformated, did you install codec packs K-Lite or DirectShow filters?If so, install an updated version of k-Lite. There also might be codecs in other applications causing crashes.Does it happen with other games as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khet Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Nope, only Fallout. Mass Effect 1-2, Dragon Age, Global Agenda, L4D2, TF2, Borderlands, even Oblivion are all fine. Like I said, all drivers, and codecs, are up to date since I only keep a list of drivers and codecs used and recheck everything every so often to ensure latest versions. All drivers and codecs were downloaded after the reformat, which was this past weekend, so they can't really be much more up to date than they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneyLogic Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 It's not only being-up-to-date, some codecs just tend to cause truble an d even crashing. You can try to deactivate some codecs like described here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ihoe Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 did you update the game? if so, after a certain patch, the game no longer supports quad core cpus. Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3 Find the line: bUseThreadedAI=0 change it to: bUseThreadedAI=1 Add another line after it and insert: iNumHWThreads=2 This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze. also, you could try using "Large adress aware enabler" which will allow the game to use more than 3-2 Gigs of RAM, a longshot at fixing this bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khet Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Y'know, I think that might be it Ihoe. I did update, and completely forgot about that quad core issues. I'll test it after work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneyLogic Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 @Ihoegood catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khet Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Looks like that was it. Haven't gotten a freeze yet. Thanks guys, completely forgot about that little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfsoft Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 It's not only being-up-to-date, some codecs just tend to cause truble an d even crashing. You can try to deactivate some codecs like described here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfsoft Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 It's not only being-up-to-date, some codecs just tend to cause truble an d even crashing. You can try to deactivate some codecs like described hereThx i forgot that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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