oblivionpather Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 (edited) Hello. I'm at my wit's end with Fo3 right now. I reinstalled recently because the mods I had were causing so many crashes that I just decided to scrap my installation and reinstall. Now, Whenever I attempt to make a new game, or continue from a downloaded savegame, the game stops responding and crashes. Aside from mod related ones, I have had no such problems with Fallout 3 before on this machine. I am on 64-bit Windows 7, and my Fallout 3 is the steam version. Fixes tried Updated Graphics DriversBoth deleted local game content through steam and manually deleting the fallout 3 goty folder from my steam directoryUpdated sound driversDisabled FFDshow's audio stuff for fallout3.exeAttempted to launch the launcher directlyattempted to launch fallout 3 through steamattempted to launch fallout 3 through FOMMAttempted to disable vsyncAttempted running the game on all the preset graphics settingsVerified the integrity of the game cache through steam - everything checked out.Deleted Fallout.ini, let the game generate a new one, used the iNumHWThreads=2 command What's going on here? I really want to play again and i'm eager for suggestions for fixes. Edit: Just to verify, this installation was crashing without FOMM, OBSE, or anything installed alongside - in other words, from a fresh, 100% vanilla install, i've been having the crashes. Edited October 1, 2011 by oblivionpather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblivionpather Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 Well, hell. I did a search on d3d9.dll, because i heard some crashes can be related to it. Searched my documents and my game folder for it, and it was nowhere to be found! I downloaded it and put it in - and for the moment, it's letting me in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algaeb Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Disabling Games for Windows Live can help too. http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1086 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRampage Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Well, hell. I did a search on d3d9.dll, because i heard some crashes can be related to it. Searched my documents and my game folder for it, and it was nowhere to be found!That's because it's in the "C:/ Windows / system32" directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblivionpather Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 Well, hell. I did a search on d3d9.dll, because i heard some crashes can be related to it. Searched my documents and my game folder for it, and it was nowhere to be found!That's because it's in the "C:/ Windows / system32" directory. Apparently it needs to be in the game directory too, because placing it in there made the crashes stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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