How can I get Fallout 3 working again?

[cheese177]

I have Fallout 3 (purchased on steam) installed. I tried modding the game, following all instructions and loading it in FOMM in the right order, but every 5-10 minutes the game will freeze (sounds will continue to play) and I'm forced to exit out.

I figured it was a problem with the mods so I played it without them enabled. Same exact problem occurred. If anyone has a solution I would love to hear it. Oh, and this is on Windows 7, my computer easily meets the system requirements as well.

[Fonger]

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/120735-how-to-install-mods-for-fallout-3/

start at the second red line

[cheese177]

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/120735-how-to-install-mods-for-fallout-3/

start at the second red line

 

I'm trying to run it without mods. I moved Fallout to my D: drive but it still crashed after 5 or so minutes.

[oxy21]

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/120735-how-to-install-mods-for-fallout-3/

start at the second red line

 

I'm trying to run it without mods. I moved Fallout to my D: drive but it still crashed after 5 or so minutes.

 

 

 

ok just gonna throw this on out here, and its a long shot at best.

 

I had a problem with fallout newvegas and steam cloud sync, cloud sync would crash new vegas. I had to disable it to run without crashes and it sucks because you lose achievements, but you could try that.

[element2586]

i have this same problem.I have the mod patch from this site,and i did the Archive invalidation .And mine still does it.

[Muspellheim]

Hi guys, got the same problem.

Made all steps described on forum, nothing helped. When i set bEnableAudio=0 all runs smooth, never freezes, but playing without sound is :X

Downloaded extended Fallout.ini from nexus, modified a little bit and freezing gone.

Try it, place in My documents/My games/Fallout3

http://www.mediafire.com/?43pmbmmxaare7hm

[Paxan_1]

Hi Guys,

 

if you have a problem with running mods you should figure out which mod it is. Some mods cant be run with another without having trouble. Deactivating all is a good start, activate one by one and try playing, maybe you can find the one which is causing trouble. I'm running F3 with ~50 mods and it is really fine :)

 

Sarah

[Muspellheim]

Deactivating all is a good start...

 

It's is the problem in Fallout3 itself :) Already tried to disable all DLCs but it didn't help

 

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also i renamed Music folder in Data and disabled Live with this http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1086

Edited November 3, 2011 by Muspellheim

[davycrockett]

can i just point out that fallout 3 is extremely temperamental when it comes to messing with the FALLOUT PREFS and FALLOUT .ini files back up the originals if you do and don't save your game using a tweaked ini until you have got some degree of stability also AMDs cannot utilize hyper threading that's an INTEL thing as i understand it the adding of iNumHWThreads =2 line will just cause a crash on AMDS cpus

at worst re installation of the game will be required the best site i found for this is " tweakguides .com fallout 3 tweakguide " with regards to using someone else's ini file be warned unless your two machines are identical it wont work as well as you hope if at all .

[Werne]

Do you have a quad core processor? Edited November 4, 2011 by Werne