Fallout 3 Fast Travel & Entering Crashes

[martin2202]

Good day all,

Over the past few days, I have began heavily modding fallout 3, and at multiple times have come across times where I am instantly crashed to desktop. Whilst this is annoying, the worst instance of this occurred when I was around 7 hours into the game (a lot of time for gameplay when it took 2 days to mod) where I found that I could not enter any area where the game would have to load a new area. This includes opening named doors or fast travelling, an issue I have seen mentioned around. I thought that I'd just share a quick fix to this dilemma which I discovered by accident (died whilst stuck in wasteland).

 

1. Load up the most recent save game with all mods installed when the save was created (Fallout Mod Manager does tell you what was installed for save files)

2. Once the save has loaded, instantly reload the exact same save file.

 

Based upon this simple action, I noticed that I could enter doors once more and fast travel without problems for quite a while. I did notice that there were frequent framerate drops thereafter, and I am not sure if they are related to the solution or not.

 

I hope this helps anyone with these problems, and hope that this is a new fix, though I do doubt it (sorry to anyone who posted a better fix or the same fix before me)

Also, I should add, I have to do this reload every time the fallout 3 application/ FOSE is activated, so the fix only lasts until the game instance shuts down (reload the most recent save every time you play fallout 3 with mods).

 

Good luck with the (temporary) fix.

[Valahul]

THANKS!!!! IT WORKED!! :D

 

Also.. if you can't save your game because you fast traveled and the game crashed.. load your latest file and then kill yourself (in-game) and you will be able to save again.

[belias123]

i have the same problem but if i save it crashes too any ideas? =/