Time Contingent Crashes

[Darviela]

Just installed Game of the Year edition of FallOut 3.

 

After about 2 mins of game play independent of what I am doing the game will hang where I can still hear audio but everything is frozen. I experience no lag in this game because I have a 690 and an i7. Even with default no mods installed this problem occurs.

 

Anybody have any ideas?

 

 

Update:

 

Did some research and a lot of people are saying that Fallout 3 does not play well with quad cores or windows 7. I have both of these things.

 

short of running it in compatibility mode, anybody have any advice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update: For Anybody that is having the same problem I was, setting the game to run in compatibility for vista seems to have worked.

Edited January 9, 2013 by Darviela

[prensa]

Darviela - Hello!

 

"independent of what I am doing the game will hang where I can still hear audio but everything is frozen."

 

Sounds like the Fallout 3 multi core bug.

 

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

 

"because I have a 690 and an i7"

 

i7's are at least quad core so you will be affected by this.

 

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

 

The one you want to change is:

 

For XP:

 

My Documents\My Games\Fallout3\

 

For Vista & Win7:

 

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 completely fixes the freezing bug.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Prensa