Fallout 3 GOTY crashes on startup

[TheCampingCam]

I am experiencing a crash when i start up fallout 3 goty. I had previously installed mods succesfully but i deleted that game folder and re-downloaded a fresh copy via steam. It shows the "Please Stand By" screen then returns me to my desktop and says "fallout 3 has stopped working". I have not changed anything about my game and it just crashes. I have tried disabling all dlc's but that does not seem to help any. I am using windows 7 and a quad core processor. It has worked previously and i have no idea why not now. Help would be appreciated, thanks.

[prensa]

TheCampingCam - Hello!

 

"I am experiencing a crash when i start up fallout 3 goty"

 

That's normally caused by a missing master file, a plugin is missing another that it needs to work.

 

" I had previously installed mods succesfully but i deleted that game folder and re-downloaded a fresh copy via steam."

 

Was the original Fallout 3 installation via STEAM or was it off a disc?

 

Are you sure all traces of the original installation & mods are gone?

 

If you had two installations of Fallout 3 in two different locations, parts of the old one may still be there.

 

If you are using a mod manager (FOMM/NMM) it may still be pointing to the old installtion.

 

It's possible your old .ini is still in place, go to your:

 

Documents\My Games\Fallout3

 

& drag:

 

FALLOUT.ini

 

Onto the desktop.

 

Start Fallout 3, it will make a new .ini file, see if it loads normally.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Prensa

[nomad8282]

i have the same problem and deleting FALLOUT.ini doesnt help

[SpyTheTroll]

Mine just freezes my entire computer and i need to turn my computer off and on again to get out of fallout...

[smashbrawlguy]

I had this same issue- the game would start, but crash almost immediately while playing the first slide. Deleting the \Documents\My Games\Fallout3 folder and re-running the game fixed it for me.