Purr4me Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 If the OS is windows 10 ? there are issues with display support, any hardware support currently. We already know the desktop has no issues so it's not the game. It on the laptop. All I can do is attempt to see if I can find the issue based on real data. IT may be the OS is "preventing " some software from installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noriinu Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Windows 7, but I found the source of the problem when I was looking around in the system info. It's the driver for the AMD Radeon HD 7640G. After uninstalling it I was able to launch the game through FalloutLauncher and everything finally looked right, but it created another issue. I can't launch the game through Fallout3.exe anymore, which means no FOMM, no FOSE, and alltogether no mods like this. It just gives me one of those "the memory could not be read" messages. This is frustrating. So now I can launch the game with everything looking right but I can't use mods lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purr4me Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Take your time at least now you know where the problem is atNow you have to backtrack because if you want install the driver the driver itself install software that supports games and because of that that software is no longer thereI'm wondering if this driver software package installed malware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noriinu Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 It's coming straight from HP. Now I've got it all kind of working, except whenever I start or exit the game through FOMM I am getting "the instruction at such and such referenced memory at such and such, the memory could not be read" and crashing. I'm wondering if the driver for this is just not totally compatible with Fallout 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mktavish Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) If you changed the display driver ... don't you need to have it recheck your display settings from the Launcher.exe And you may want to just scrap the folder structure where your .ini files and saves are put.Delete the Fallout3 folder found in "Documents>MyGames" ???Then recreate it with the launcher again. IDK just my 2cp Edited December 1, 2016 by Mktavish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noriinu Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Well, updating my driver through device manager totally nuked this computer, Fallout 3 and several other programs were crashing as soon as I opened them. Rolled back the driver and everything is back to normal, as well as the stupid ass hair bug. How difficult do you think it would be for me to learn a little about making mods and just make a mod that replaces all vanilla hairstyles with a clone of them that is positioned slightly to the left so it lines up right on the heads? Kind of a janky fix but the driver that makes it display correctly causes massive system instability. At one point I had Windows Explorer itself auto restarting every 2 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mktavish Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) What about archive invalidation ? Did you toggle it off/on with NMM? or turned in on in the first place? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbaluk9aQCE Edited December 1, 2016 by Mktavish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noriinu Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Yeah, learned that one long ago. After some hours of wrestling with getting everything working again I am just going to assume that the weirdly specific driver this laptop needs just doesn't play well with Fallout 3 hair. Going to look into making a mod to slightly adjust hair tonight since everything else works on ultra high quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purr4me Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 in steam, under tools at the top category software, there is a program that checks the PC/laptop for software packages and hardware drivers that you can use.Since MS has cut off support for windows 7, your choices are very limited and running windows update now places risk to your OS from even them.It may be of better help to you than us. kitty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mktavish Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Yeah, learned that one long ago. After some hours of wrestling with getting everything working again I am just going to assume that the weirdly specific driver this laptop needs just doesn't play well with Fallout 3 hair. Going to look into making a mod to slightly adjust hair tonight since everything else works on ultra high quality. And you did delete the Fallout3 folder found in Documents ... then re-created it with the launcher ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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