JW1 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) I recently built a new PC with Windows 10, and on the whole getting Fallout 3 and NV to run on it has been pretty painless. However, there's one really annoying problem: when the game freezes - as it inevitably does from time-to-time in certain areas of the wasteland - I get a completely stuck screen. I can ctrl-alt-delete to start task manager but it loads 'behind', so to speak, the stuck Fallout screen and there seems no way to make it the focus. The only way I've found to get rid of this is to log out and log back in again. Does anyone know of some way to fix this? Edited February 1, 2020 by JW1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alt91 Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 There are several mods that let you run the game in windowed mode while mimicking fullscreen.I use this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/16001 , but I think there are 2 or 3 more to choose from.It makes things much simpler, especially being able to alt-tab without killing the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JW1 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) Thanks! Do you happen to know if that works with Mod Organizer? Edited February 3, 2020 by JW1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alt91 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I didn't see any mention of FMO in the description and I have never used it.It does say you can integrate it with Fallout Mod Manager (FOMM), but also says that it is unnecessary.Since it detects if you have FOSE, NVSE, and 4GB mods, it should work regardless of which mod manager you use. I just noticed the description says you can press Alt+F4 to close the game. I wonder if that would work during a freeze?It would be nice not to have to bother with task manager at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alt91 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I came across this one https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/21337 . It has MO support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JW1 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 I just checked to see if Alt-F4 would work - it doesn't - and after fooling around for a bit found a solution, and it's ridiculously simple: Task Manager has an option "always on top" which wasn't selected. I turned it on and now task manager will load on top of the frozen screen. :facepalm: Thanks again for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoReyes1995 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I have a similar problem where the game will hard freeze/get stuck randomly doing gameplay, forcing me to ALT-TAB to close the game. Apparently this happens because of bad MOD order or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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