davidmount Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 OK, so I've been trying to mod the retail DVD version of GOTY for about a month now, with little success. Finally found all the info I think I need from various forum posts, YouTube videos, etc. I'm running an Intel Core Duo 2.4 ghz processor, Nvidia 9400GT with 512MB of video RAM and 4 GB of RAM on the board. Completely clean install, defragged hard drive, cleaned registry got rid of all traces of old installs and mods. Installed GOTY, updated to 1.7 patch, installed GECK, updated to 1.5. When I first played Fallout 3, the game ran on high video settings, no problems, now setting me to medium, same system - only took a BIOS update and installed latest Nvidia drivers. Only running main Fallout .esm, have DLC installed, but not selecting them - want to make sure I can run vanilla game with no problems - since this is the 4th completely clean install in 3 days. I can get through Vault 101, then the game starts having CTD's as I'm walking to Megaton, no messages just a CTD, then I lose all graphics - just a black screen after I tell it to send the info to Microsoft - screen forced to lowest resolution setting. After the screen goes black my monitor tells me there is no video input, I can here the left click I'm doing from my mouse, but nothing else. I have to shut the computer down with the power button and reboot. Both RAM sticks are fine, as are both slots. I'm guessing it's the video card - but this game shouldn't be taxing the card - at least not per Bethesda. Any idea's? I'm going to try New Vegas to make sure it still runs, or Oblivion, or any of the other games I have on my system. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidmount Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Well if anyone has similar issue with even lightly modded and corrected patch - merge or bash.....I think it's the video card, noticed that all of a sudden fallout 3 switched to medium quality instead of high quality graphics and that I have more useable ram from my desktop....took bios update and chipset update for my mother board (never should have done it), I have a GeForce 9400GT 512MB card, guessing not enough so I'm installing a 1GB card, using Nvidia 8400 GS board. used system restore to go back way before I started trying to mod the game - that worked quite well by the way. I'll see how this goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5hassay Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hey! It appears that your power supply might not be sufficient. In that note, what wattage is your power supply? I agree that your computer seems to not be handling the resource requirements from Fallout 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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