Fallout 3 Not working

[SirFrank114]

Having played F3 many years ago, along with the official mods and a few add on mods, an old problem has returned. Starting a new game with a new installation on a new computer, the game will go randomly into a freeze video mode. To get out of it I go to my task master and the message is: Fallout 3 is not responding. The only mod I'm using is FOMM. Taskmaster indicates that is still working. I'm using a Dell XPS running Win 7. I have the 1.7 upgrade installed but that's it. Any suggesttions? I tried searching the topic but found nothing. I'm playing it from a disc not Steam. Also game is installed in Games, not program files X86. Edited September 2, 2012 by Sir Frank

[GrindedStone]

It does that on 4 core CPU's you got to limit it to 2 cores by inserting iNumHWThreads=2 into the config file located at my documents/ my games/ fallout 3/ fallout It gets inserted at the end of the general section, right above where the display section starts, I think it does anyway. Who's to say where it begins or ends. This will resolve an issue where the game will freeze only in a few areas of the game. It does it every time so it's easy to tell if it's working. Which means that is the end of the general section after all, or at least good enough to allow the tweek to work.

 

There's a memory leak issue as well, it's very similar, but won't happen in the same spot every time. It's random, to avoid this we use the 4Gb enabler. A tool you put your fallout.exe into an launch, which will edit the application in order to be able to use more ram, thus avoiding a memory leak issue. You also don't wana autosave, quicksave, or use any mod to scripted save. Then also avoid any mods that claim to fix something "no matter what they claim"

 

Set your Fallout3.exe to run as admin, in compatiblity mode for Windows XP SP3, with themes disabled. Start out with Fallout 3 +1.7 patch +DLC +FOSE +4Core Limiter +4Gb enabler No other tweeks, and default settings. Reduce the in-game distance sliders to 1/4 to 1/2 on everything except the last two which don't matter as much. Do this so the game doesn't stutter while you run across the wastes. After you know it works well start tweeking it if you like, or use the configurator. Just know you can break the game doing this.

[SirFrank114]

It does that on 4 core CPU's you got to limit it to 2 cores by inserting iNumHWThreads=2 into the config file located at my documents/ my games/ fallout 3/ fallout It gets inserted at the end of the general section, right above where the display section starts, I think it does anyway. Who's to say where it begins or ends. This will resolve an issue where the game will freeze only in a few areas of the game. It does it every time so it's easy to tell if it's working. Which means that is the end of the general section after all, or at least good enough to allow the tweek to work.

 

There's a memory leak issue as well, it's very similar, but won't happen in the same spot every time. It's random, to avoid this we use the 4Gb enabler. A tool you put your fallout.exe into an launch, which will edit the application in order to be able to use more ram, thus avoiding a memory leak issue. You also don't wana autosave, quicksave, or use any mod to scripted save. Then also avoid any mods that claim to fix something "no matter what they claim"

 

Set your Fallout3.exe to run as admin, in compatiblity mode for Windows XP SP3, with themes disabled. Start out with Fallout 3 +1.7 patch +DLC +FOSE +4Core Limiter +4Gb enabler No other tweeks, and default settings. Reduce the in-game distance sliders to 1/4 to 1/2 on everything except the last two which don't matter as much. Do this so the game doesn't stutter while you run across the wastes. After you know it works well start tweeking it if you like, or use the configurator. Just know you can break the game doing this.

 

Thanks for the suggestions but on computer knowlege scale of 1 - 10, I'm a 1. That is, only able to do very simple things. I managed to install the iNumHWThreads=2. Next question is where can I find the 4Gb enabler? I can't seem to locate it in the Nexus files. I thank you for your help but please keep it super simple.