experience freeze in combat

[monarchco]

No, not a CTD, a full freeze for which ive not seen before.

 

Whenever in combat, and randomly into combat, the game crashes. I find it tends to help if Im looking away from the fighting(no difference if combat is guns or melee based)

Game will freeze with current screen, background noises will continue, all character, and weapon audio is cut off, and than game will hang, req ctrl-alt-del > task mgr > end process to close.

 

Probably not a problem with my system, but ive heard of issues with AMD cards before.

 

System specs:

2 - 4GB corsair RAM sticks.

MSI Class 2 Motherboard

Corsair 650W PSU

2 - AMD Radeon 6850 - crossfire

2- 750GB HDD

Intel i5 - no OC

 

load order:

 

Fallout3.esm

Anchorage.esm

ThePitt.esm

BrokenSteel.esm

PointLookout.esm

Zeta.esm

UNofficial Fallout 3 Patch.esm

CALIBR.esm

xCLAIBR.esm

Mothership Crew.esm

Mart's Mutant Mod.esm

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm

Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch DLC's(OA, TP, BS, PL, MZ order).esp

CALIBRxMerchant.esp

GNR Enhanced.esp

UPP - Pack 1.esp

UPP - Pack 2.esp

BerettaTwoTone AH.esp

ColtM4Carbines.esp

Devils Mistress Unique.esp

TheFingerOfGod.esp

COL Enclave VER2.esp

COL Enclave Hell.esp

DIM TYPE3clothsRETAIL.esp

Dragonskin Tactical Outfit.esp

Dragonskin Bonus Pack.esp

AutoSaverFO3.esp

Follower Amata ULTIMATE.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - (DLC's - OA, TP, BS, PL, MZ order).esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp

Mart's Mutant Mod - Master Menu Module.esp

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow in Fallout.esp

Enhanced Weather - Radioactive Rain and Snow Plugin.esp

Enhanced Weather - Weather Sounds in Interiors.esp

Enhanced Weather - Sneak Bonus during Storms.esp

Enhanced Weather - REBOOT.esp

Fellout-Full.esp

Fellout-Anchorage.esp

Fellout-BrokenSteel.esp

Fellout-Point Lookout.esp

Fellout-Zeta.esp

xCALIBRammo_override.esp

merged patch.esp

 

I am also using NMC texture pack standard(1.9GB)

 

^ all ran through FO3Edit, than ran through FO3MasterUpdate

 

All scripts are up to date, FOSE is up to date.

 

I am launching FOSE through Razer Game Booster.

 

I do *NOT* have d3d9.dll in directory as I find its made little difference in past.

 

Razer Game Booster does have recorder(hooking) active, but I have not tried to record yet.

 

I use archive invalidated and 3GB enabler.

 

I am on win7 - 64x bit. All game .exe's are running admin, on secondary drive, with win 2000 compatibility mode.

 

Game settings:

reso: 1600x900

AA - off

AF - 2

Vsync on

screen effect - none

texture - high

radial blur - medium

DOF - on

Transparency MS - on

 

most other stuff is medium, and I have significantly brought down game settings from original to test for crash reduction.

No crash reduction. Game still running full 60fps on Vsync, as it was when most settings AA, and AF were maxed out.

 

FALLOUT.ini is default aside from ugridload brought down from 5 > 3

[prensa]

monarchco - Hello!

 

Sounds like the Fallout 3 multi core bug.

 

"FALLOUT.ini is default aside from ugridload brought down from 5 > 3"

 

So you don't have the multi core fix applied?

 

Fallout 3 has trouble with multi core computers, mainly with ones that have more than two cores & use hyperthreading.

 

You've got an i5 & that's either 2 or 4 cores so your Fallout could be affected by it.

 

There is a fix, you need to edit your Fallout 3 .ini file.

 

The one you want to change is:

 

Documents\My Games\Fallout3

 

The file you want will be called:

 

FALLOUT.ini

 

Open the .ini with Notepad & change this line:

 

bUseThreadedAI=0

 

to:

 

bUseThreadedAI=1

 

& insert this line under it:

 

iNumHWThreads=2

 

Save & close your ini.

 

That fixes the multi core bug completely.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Prensa

[monarchco]

*sigh* thank you much for your help. I just picked up modding FO3 again recently, and I do remember making considerable changes to the configuration files back 2 years ago.... however I neglected to remember multithreading issue -.-

 

Again, tyvm.