Constant CTD...what to do

[TheOriginalEvilD]

I've installed fresh, i've patched (even tried different versions of the patches), i've ran with and without mods, i've played with load order (and i'm running less than 10 mods even, with the most "robust" mod being the 20th Century weapons mod), i've updated my video drivers and even reinstalled DirectX 9.0c (i'm on XP Pro). Nothing i do makes any difference...i play for about 20 minutes usually and it crashes. Sometimes it just freezing up and i have to hard reboot, sometimes it just crashes to desk top, sometimes it gives me an error message and sometimes not. I've tried the "disable Live" mod. I don't understand this because a few months back i NEVER had crashing problems....but my hard drive crashed and i've since reformatted to a new drive and reinstalled everything and now i'm having major crashing issues. What more can i do?

[prandiningrat]

maybe your hard drive had bad sectors.you can try checking your hardisk by enter RUN command then type "chkdsk C: /F" or "chkdsk C: /R"

C: = is your drive path (Can be D, E or F)

/F = Fixes errors on the disk.

/R = Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F).

/R command can be long time to wait depends on your drives

i dont know whether this can help your problem or not, but if you can posts your error message?? maybe the problem not on your disk but on softwares you have installed..

[TheOriginalEvilD]

It's a brand new Samsung Spinpoint F3 so it better not have bad sectors LOL.

 

I'll make a note of the errors as they happen and post them here.

[TheOriginalEvilD]

Faulting application fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, faulting module fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, fault address 0x0048503d.

Faulting application fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, faulting module fallout3.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00722d87.

Faulting application fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, faulting module fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, fault address 0x0048503d.

Faulting application fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, faulting module fallout3.exe, version 1.7.0.3, fault address 0x002e28a3.

 

Those are my last error messages...

Edited November 21, 2010 by Evil D

[corvus667]

See http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/261455-random-ctds-getting-really-sick-of-them/ for some more ideas ... maybe something mentioned there works for you...

[TheOriginalEvilD]

Last night i tried playing in windowed mode and that cut the crashes in half...any idea why that might be? I'd say i played for a good 45 minutes between crashes which is a vast improvement.

[corvus667]

Windowed mode apparently can decrease the ctd number on some systems. It did not help me very much. I guess streaming works different, also the communication between the program and the gpus. If you like the windowed mode there is a useful mod to get rid of the window per se: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=45

[TheOriginalEvilD]

Well i tried the PCB mod and the ini tweaks, and they make the problem 100 fold worse. Now it plays for 20 seconds and crashes. I even replaced my ini with a backup and its still crashing. I'm about done with this game :(

[MerlinCross]

Not sure if it's been said and I don't think I saw you list it but...., Master Update it?

[corvus667]

If you restore your ini-file you should get no more ctds than before... However, once a ctd happened it is quite likely for me if if restart the game that the next ctd happens soon (I guess the Ram is messed up). If I reboot the system after a ctd less ctds happen.

 

Also try giving the Fallout3.exe process a high priority either via task manager (e.g. during the main menu screen), via bat-file (/high) or if you use fose by command line options (-priority high). This did help me quite a lot.