Am I Wasting My Time Trying To Get Fallout 3 GOTY To Work?

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I've just finished The Witcher and moved on to Fallout 3 GOTY but it seems I've got one of the systems the game doesn't like.

I'm running:
Windows 7 x64
I5 2500k at stock cause I'm still waiting for my Silver Arrow to be delivered.
8gb Ram
Asrock z68 Pro3 mobo
X-Fi Fatal1ty
HD4870 XT

I've got the problem that loads of people have had where the game hangs after playing for a few seconds and I need to close it through the task manager. It always happens in indoor areas.

I've think I've spent about 4 hours trying to get the damn thing to work and thought I'd ask if anyone here had a quick fix for it before I give up.

So far I've tried:
-Editing the config file to use only 2 cpu cores.
-Editing the config file to use only 1 cpu core.
-Disabling my second monitor.
-Running the game on the minimum graphics settings.
-Running the game in windowed mode.
-Running the game in compatibility mode.
-Validating the files in Steam.
-Disabling the community features in Steam.
-Looking at the event manager to see if it says what's making it hang.
-Auto logging in to GFWL
-Updating the exe to use more than 2gb ram.


Things I've thought about trying but really can't be bothered just to play one game:
-Setting up the system to dual boot into XP.
-Removing my soundcard and uninstalling the drivers.
-Taking out a stick of ram so I've only got 4gb in.


Any ideas before I uninstall it?
 
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James J said:
Disabled VPU recover in the CCC?
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I can't see an option in the CCC to do this.

Pighardia said:
Have you tried turning ffdshow off?

Also you could try this-

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16490

It has solved a lot of problems for me.

Also, you could use CASM which creates rolling autosaves every 1 or 3 minutes so that you never lose much progress. It also makes the game more stables (apparantly)


And there are quite a few fixes mentioned in here- http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18294193
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I'm don't have ffdshow or any codec packs installed but I'll have a look at that patch.
 
Prolly speaking too soon again but I put Steam into offline mode last night and played the game for an hour and a half with no crashes.

I fully expect to load it back up tonight and have a crash straight away. :)
 
Ah well, I get the same crashes in Windows XP as I do in Windows 7.

Removing my soundcard doesn't help and I've tried running it with the graphics turned down to a minimum but no luck.

The only option I've got left it to mod the game to bits in the hope that the mods fix it.

Off to Fallout Nexus I go....
 
I think I've fixed it!!!! \o/

Fresh install with no changes, not even the ini file one and installed the 32 bit version of the K-Lite Codec pack. I had already tried the 64 bit version as my OS is 64 bit but then I thought that as fallout is a native 32 bit app I'd be as well trying that one.

Played for 4 hours last night with no crashes. Gonna try again tonight and if it still doesn't crash then I'll break the mods out. :)
 
Bugger.

Tried to play Fallout 3 and can't get past the first slide when the title screen is coming up.

Only thing changed since last time is my graphics card from a 4870 to a 6950.
 
I'm not exaggerating when I say I have tried all of the standard suggestions to fix it.

I'm gonna rebuild my system and test each component because after my last upgrade I've been getting random BSOD's and that's never happended before so I really need to rule out faulty hardware before I take things any further.

I have a feeling my X-Fi Fatal1ty is the root of all my problems.

I just hope New Vegas isn't the same as I bought it in the last Steam sales.
 
Finally got it working.

Turns out it didn't like the fact that I had data from a previous game in the My Documents folder. Deleted that and turned off HDR it seems to be going fine.

No doubt it'll fall on it's arse soon enough. :)
 
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