Toramato Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 (edited) Felt like playing this again after a long about a year, first time was on console and I wanted to play with mods so I bought the PC version... Anway, as the title implies, I've installed it and whenever I click on new game, it loads for a few seconds and stops. After looking it up it seems a lot of people are getting this problem, and all of them, including me are using the vista 32/62 bit operating system. Now I tried fixing the problem myself, but there are a metric ****tonne of suggestions on fixing it so I'll list what I've already tried. 1) re-installing2) running as admin3) xp-compatability mode4) deleting the save files (a thread on here said that) If anyone has had any success with this I'd appreciate if you could help out. thanks Edited February 6, 2011 by Toramato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaai0110 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Felt like playing this again after a long about a year, first time was on console and I wanted to play with mods so I bought the PC version... Anway, as the title implies, I've installed it and whenever I click on new game, it loads for a few seconds and stops. After looking it up it seems a lot of people are getting this problem, and all of them, including me are using the vista 32/62 bit operating system. Now I tried fixing the problem myself, but there are a metric ****tonne of suggestions on fixing it so I'll list what I've already tried. 1) re-installing2) running as admin3) xp-compatability mode4) running as admin5) deleting the save files (a thread on here said that) If anyone has had any success with this I'd appreciate if you could help out. thanks I had a lot of those problems with W7-64b. It is a permissions problem on Windows7. Maybe this will help you with Vista. First don't load your game in drive c: You're stuck with the 86 program file directory; try another drive. Next go into Security and change the folder permissions to "All:" you have to do this for the program folder '86 drive and you must do it for the folders where the save game files are. You may also have problems with a read only folder, so check that in both places. Whenever you a load a program, right click and run as administrator. Yes, Microsoft still sucks! After two weeks of profanity at MSoft, I have hundreds of satisfying hours playing and fixing the mods. Also Vista is heavily overloaded with graphics: try the "use all memory" patch in Mods Utilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toramato Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 thanks, i'll post back with results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toramato Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) I had a lot of those problems with W7-64b. It is a permissions problem on Windows7. Maybe this will help you with Vista. First don't load your game in drive c: You're stuck with the 86 program file directory; try another drive. Next go into Security and change the folder permissions to "All:" you have to do this for the program folder '86 drive and you must do it for the folders where the save game files are. You may also have problems with a read only folder, so check that in both places. Whenever you a load a program, right click and run as administrator. Yes, Microsoft still sucks! After two weeks of profanity at MSoft, I have hundreds of satisfying hours playing and fixing the mods. Also Vista is heavily overloaded with graphics: try the "use all memory" patch in Mods Utilities. Actually I have some questions 1) By "don't run in C:" do you mean run off another piece of hardware or simply move the file (like into my documnets or something)? 2) How exactly do you change the permissions? whenever I right click the file and try to change the permissions on security, all the users are ticked and have all the boxes listing things they can do checked, but greyed out so that I can't change them (even though I'm admin). Sorry to be a pain, but could you screen cap what you do to change it? I was never much of a wizz at this. Thanks Edited February 15, 2011 by Toramato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csgators Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 First, install it outside of the Program Files folder, I prefer to make a \Games folder to install all my games into, it doesn't matter much if you use the C drive or another drive unless one of your drives is faster. After it's installed right click the fallout3.exe and click properties. Click on the compatibility tab and select 'Run as Administrator". It seems to help a lot to run any program that modifies INI files as Administrator. Thank you Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toramato Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 (edited) First, install it outside of the Program Files folder, I prefer to make a \Games folder to install all my games into, it doesn't matter much if you use the C drive or another drive unless one of your drives is faster. After it's installed right click the fallout3.exe and click properties. Click on the compatibility tab and select 'Run as Administrator". It seems to help a lot to run any program that modifies INI files as Administrator. Thank you Microsoft.So un-install, re-install somewhere else (I'll go for a my documents games file) and do all that. Got it. Here are my specs by the way, if that helps. -Model: HP 550-32-bit oparating system-RAM: 2GB-intel core2 dup CPU T5670 @1.8 GHz 1.8GHz whatever that means... Edited February 16, 2011 by Toramato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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