help me before I RMA my video card

[Dan3345]

I hate nVidia. Now anyways. I am on the beta 275.55 drivers and cannot play this game. I tried initially to play on high settings, and made a profile in nvidia control center to prefer performance over everything. And yet.. Face South and lag, face anyone wielding an assault rifle and lag. Face the scrapyard and lag. Be in rivet city, go into the hallway facing the door to the science center and... you guessed it, lag. Lower settings doesn't help either. I played on as low settings as possible and still cannot get a normal game going.

 

I go into the wasteland and it plays decently, until people show up, then I practically crash, from said lag. Not to mention that if I go in any direction once the game starts loading in the scenery as I walk the frames drop to a crawl. I have tried everything imaginable, from changing the .ini, too adding performance mods, and the stutter remover. I have played on the lowest resolution possible on my monitor still lag.

 

I am about ready to rip out my GPU and send it back, I bought it four months ago so it may be too late for that though.

 

My rig:

1 GTX 460 1gb

6gb 1333 patriot ram

1100t 3.3ghz cpu

700watt power supply

liquid cooled, so don't mention heat. CPU stays at 39 degrees Celsius under load

 

I am at a complete loss.. I have reinstalled the game a total of four times in the last month, trying to get some stability and nothing. Retail GOTY copy btw.

 

The weirdest thing about this is that, I also play as some of you might know, fallout new vegas, and I have no lag there on ultra. Occasionally when wandering it will load and freeze, but its always for just a second then it comes right back to 60fps and smooth gameplay.

My goal for fallout 3 was to lock the fps at 30, so I downloaded the stutter remover but I know for a fact it is not working, my game is updated to 1.7, and FOSE is fully updated as well.

 

This is my current load order btw.

 

Fallout3.esm

Anchorage.esm

ThePitt.esm

BrokenSteel.esm

PointLookout.esm

Zeta.esm

CRAFT.esm

CALIBR.esm

Lings.esm

EVE.esm

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esm

Mart's Mutant Mod.esm

RH_IRONSIGHTS.esm

LingsDLC.esm

EVE.esp

RH_EVE_Bridge.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_VanillaPlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_AnchoragePlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_PittPlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_BrokenSteelPlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_PointLookoutPlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Basic_ZetaPlugin.esp

RH_IronSights_Pitt_NewRifleSights.esp

RH_IronSights_RemoveReticule.esp

RH_IronSights_PL_NewItems.esp

FollowersRelax.esp

EVE - FWE Master Release.esp

EVE - FWE Master Release (Follower Enhanced).esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Alternate Travel.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (BrokenSteel).esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Optional Restore Tracers.esp

FO3 Wanderers Edition - Optional Restore Tracers (automatics only).esp

RH_FWE_Bridge.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Anchorage.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC The Pitt.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Broken Steel.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Point Lookout.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Zeta.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Master Menu Module.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE Master Release.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE Master Release + DLCs.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE Master Release + Project Beauty.esp

EVE Operation Anchorage.esp

EVE Anchorage - FWE DLC Anchorage.esp

LucyWestCompanion.esp

Sydney Follower.esp

Sydney Follower - FWE Dialog Fix.esp

Sydney Follower - Load Order Fix.esp

1PipboyPDA.esp

CharonImproved.esp

mergedpatch.esp

 

Total active plugins: 61

Total plugins: 82

 

As you can see I have done a master update and a merged patch and still no difference. My monitor is a acer with a max resolution of 1920x1080. I don't think it matters but I play with a second monitor as well that is a 15" for game statistics, cpu speed, and temperature etc. that is on 1024x768.

 

I am completely stumped on what to do. I am running windows 7 ultimate 64bit. As far as I know all my drivers are fully updated.

I would really appreciate any and all help.

[quicksilverva]

just curious, did you place sr_Fallout_Stutter_Remover.dll in data\fose\plugins?

[Dan3345]

Yes I did. Isn't that what is required?

[quicksilverva]

yeah, but people have forgotten to do that. :P

[Dan3345]

I wish I had.. then this wouldn't be so darn frustrating.. Anyways looks like in the next week or two I am just going to buy a 6950 2gb. No room for crossfire as my mobo doesn't support it. No big deal to me though, as one really powerful gpu is always better than two lesser ones right?

[davidmount]

Try turning off EVE....looks great, but had nothing but problems trying to run it. See if that takes care of the lag. I went from 512MB of video ram - Nvidia 9400 GT to a 1 GB 8400 GS, 4 gigs ddr2 ram and still not running right. Used to play vanilla on high quality, tried EVE went to medium, upgraded card....low quality. Obviously something else is going on, but EVE crashed me quite a bit, and when I could run, the game lagged too much.