New Game Crash (tried getting help elsewhere)

[SpartanVOO1]

What about DLC plugins load-order?

[rebekah1]

Apparently nothing I suggested was of any help :(

I would try installing it somewhere else but... But I don't understand how to do that. And I don't know what a tweak is.

[rebekah1]

What about DLC plugins load-order?

 

Not sure what you mean. I just put in the disk and clicked install.

[knovack1]

What about DLC plugins load-order?

 

Not sure what you mean. I just put in the disk and clicked install.

 

They mean DLC which I assume means Downloadable Content, meaning the expansions. IE Point Lookout. Brooken Steal. Operation Anchorage, Mothership Zeta, and the Pitt. Each expansion runs on a .esm plugin, or a master file Inside the FOMM(Fallout Mod Manager)/NMM(Nexus Mod Manger) Eash game comes with their own plugin's, and if you plan on useing mods the Main plugins should come first in the list shown inside the FOMM/NMM (which are tools use to run mods) The original Fallout 3 plugin should be first in the list, then the expanision plugins after, then mod plugins. Should look like: (when inside the FOMM or NMM)

 

Fallout 3.esm

Anchorage.esm

The Pitt.esm

BrokenSteel.esm

PointLookout.esm

Zeta.esm

Then any mod plugin you use after

 

But good luck with trying anything for the game. Seems the game itself is not getting any attention from Bethesda anymore. You will probaly get around 100 hours of play in game, then the game starts crashing all over the place. I use the NMM instead of the FOMM for my mods. I also use a tool called Fo3edit. This tool helps organize any mods you may have, and in the Fo3edit tool you can check for errors on anything in the game. I used the tool to check for errors in the orginal fallout 3 .esm, and a bunch of errors showed up, which explains why the game crashes constantly. I guess Bethesda screwed up somewheres in the making of fallout 3, and never fixed it. So be prepaired to only get 100 hours of game time before you start crashing everywheres like mad.

[BlackRampage]

I used the tool to check for errors in the orginal fallout 3 .esm, and a bunch of errors showed up, which explains why the game crashes constantly.

Not entirely. Mainly because not every "error" that Fo3Edit reports is an actual, real error.

 

Nevertheless there are indeed quite a few things that could have been fixed in the vanilla game, but were never properly addressed by Bethesda.

Fortunately though, there are quite a few mods out there which seek to remedy this.

 

(Ironically, Fo3Edit will report "errors" present in some of those mods which seek to remedy many of the problems present in the vanilla game as well :psyduck:)

[bben46]

First, get the base game working - any add ons, mods and utility programs (FOMM, FOSE and others) can be added later as needed.

 

I have seen the GFWL problem before, but it's been quite a while. I never used GFWL and played FO3 right off of a DVD without steam. Try a forum search for a solution.

 

Hwever, it is possible that your system is below the minimum needed to play - this guess is based on having an older intel graphics board. These are usually included on the motherboard as integrated graphics on low end and laptop PCs. If you have a laptop the Graphics cannot be changed. On a table top PC it may be possible to add in a better board, but you run the risk of overloading the cheap power supply that they tend to use in those.

 

List your system specs and maybe we can come up with more ideas on improvements that can be done. Or, the manufacturer and model of the computer and we can find the specs on the internet. :thumbsup: