UnwiserSphinx Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Alright guys as most of you know fallout 3's 1.1 update caused a lot of mayhem by completely stopping support for quad processor computers, my question is: Are there any unofficial fixes to get all 4 cores running simultaneously? The current fix, that works beautifully I might add, limits fallout 3 to two cores through the ini.. I've tried manually changing the affinity through windows task manager, but to no avail.. In any case... I'm running fallout 3 on a i3 quad core processor at 2.20ghz with Win7 home premium and 3000 Intel HD video card (think that's what it is called) anyways, thanks a bunch without all processors I won't be able to run anything besides the vanilla game without stuttering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneyLogic Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I'm running fallout 3 on a i3 quad core processor at 2.20ghz with Win7 home premium and 3000 Intel HD video card (think that's what it is called) anyways, thanks a bunch without all processors I won't be able to run anything besides the vanilla game without stuttering. There is no Intel Core i3 which has 4 physical cores. They all have 2 actual cores which act like 4. Yes, there are kind of 4 virtual cores running on 2 physical. This is managed by something which is called "Hyperthreading". This processor feature is not supported by Fallout3's engine. That' why it causes crashes and freezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnwiserSphinx Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 I'm running fallout 3 on a i3 quad core processor at 2.20ghz with Win7 home premium and 3000 Intel HD video card (think that's what it is called) anyways, thanks a bunch without all processors I won't be able to run anything besides the vanilla game without stuttering. There is no Intel Core i3 which has 4 physical cores. They all have 2 actual cores which act like 4. Yes, there are kind of 4 virtual cores running on 2 physical. This is managed by something which is called "Hyperthreading". This processor feature is not supported by Fallout3's engine. That' why it causes crashes and freezes. Darn that sucks, guess that means no fix. Haha, I suppose I'll just play FO3 with the FNV engine. Thanks for the reply though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnwiserSphinx Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 Just found out that it's fixed through steam.. hmm.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneyLogic Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Just found out that it's fixed through steam.. hmm.. What do you mean with 'is fixed'?The stuttering or can you run Fallout 3 without ini-Tweak which sets the Cores usage to 2 to prevent crashing? Maybe you just needed to update the game and Steam auto-updated to the last version (which also has the Hyper-threading issue btw, but may have a better performance)? Edited April 13, 2012 by tortured Tomato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnwiserSphinx Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 Just found out that it's fixed through steam.. hmm.. What do you mean with 'is fixed'?The stuttering or can you run Fallout 3 without ini-Tweak which sets the Cores usage to 2 to prevent crashing? Maybe you just needed to update the game and Steam auto-updated to the last version (which also has the Hyper-threading issue btw, but may have a better performance)? That is extremely odd I never had to change the INI while using the steam version, but now I do.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janmarieblue Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Alright guys as most of you know fallout 3's 1.1 update caused a lot of mayhem by completely stopping support for quad processor computers, my question is: Are there any unofficial fixes to get all 4 cores running simultaneously? The current fix, that works beautifully I might add, limits fallout 3 to two cores through the ini.. I've tried manually changing the affinity through windows task manager, but to no avail.. In any case... I'm running fallout 3 on a i3 quad core processor at 2.20ghz with Win7 home premium and 3000 Intel HD video card (think that's what it is called) anyways, thanks a bunch without all processors I won't be able to run anything besides the vanilla game without stuttering.This video will show you how to fix fallout 3 freezing. Visit http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=7529 for more infomation.Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3 Find the line: bUseThreadedAI=0 change it to: bUseThreadedAI=1 Add another line after it and insert: iNumHWThreads=2 This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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