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Fallout 3 Restarts after 5-20 min


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I recently bought Fallout 3 with ignorant hopes to play it with ease on Windows 7. To my surprise, the game restarted the computer every few minutes. Confused, I scanned the internet in hopes of solving this problem. As it seems, many people have had the same problems I have encountered and have certain numbers of solutions to solve the problems. I have tried nearly every one of the solutions I could find, but they just made it worse!

 

The solutions I have attempted are:

 

Went into the fallout.ini file under "My Documents" - "My Games" - "Fallout" and making the changes:

bUseThreadAI=1

iNumHWThreads=2

 

Downloaded the patch d3d9.dll

 

Disabled hyperthreading

 

Launched the game, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, right clicked on fallout.exe, and chose properties. I went into the compatibility tab and chose Windows XP Starter Pack 3 (as this didn't work I also tried everything from Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2000). I also checked the box that says "run as administrator".

 

Right clicked on the Fallout 3 Launcher and chose "troubleshoot compatibility". I did the recommended settings, this also didn't work.

 

After all of this didn't work I simply ran as administrator and chose Windows XP Starter Pack 2. The simple approach also didn't work.

 

For those who wish to see the system I am using, look below:

 

Windows 7 Home Edition

Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU 2.83 GHz

RAM: 6.00 GB

System Type: 64-bit

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeFORCE 6800

 

So far all I know is that Fallout 3 is finicky when it comes to Windows 7 and multiple cores...

 

Don't you wish Bethesda would do something about ALL of these problems?

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  • 3 weeks later...

But the sad truth is that Fallout 3, is very crash-prone, and crashes at random a lot, even when\in places, that it didn't crashed before. And it only gets worse as your playtime grows longer.

"Funny" thing - DLC world-spaces are quite stable.

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