Fallout 3 and Windows 7

jp_bl_68

jp_bl_68

jp_bl_68

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I used to play F3 on my XP laptop without too many problems. Just the occasional crash, nothing major. Since buying a new laptop (i5-460M, 6GB DDR3 1333MHz, 2 x 500Gb, RAID, Windows 7 Home Premium, ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5870) I've not been able to get past my first birthday without it crashing.

I've checked that my drivers are up to date, I've made sure I'm running Steam as an admin, I've tried reducing the graphics settings and, as far as I can tell, my copy of F3 is fully up to date. I'm not sure what else to try.



Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to fix it?
 
Not much help but I'm almost at the end of FO3 GOTY on Steam using Windows 7 HP 64bit without any issues. The only slight problem is that if I ALT-TAB to desktop, I can't always get the game back.
 
Don't think it will be specifically a windows 7 problem. More likely a hardware issue. There are many reasons why FO3 will crash. It's quite sensitive to unstable overclocks, corrupted save games, certain drivers, the list goes on. There are a few tweaks that can help too, not sure if it applies to that CPU though. I think limiting the game to two cores was one.
 
Verify it.
Try turning off the steam overlay.
Reinstall the game or steam/clientregistry.blob
Don't use or do use LIVE (ie the opposite of what you are doing)

If all that fails. Install the Fallout 3 Wanderers Edition mod and select an alternative start and skip the vault entirely or try Cipscis' Automatic Save Manager as it helps with stability and also gives you a considerably better save system (so theres no reason not to dl it anyway).
 
Orderoftheflames Steam Sticky said:
XYZ Game won't launch.

Due to all the different games available on Steam, there's no real way of telling the problem and giving a simple answer to this.

However... One of the first things you can try is verifying the games cache. This will check to see if any of the downloaded files for the game have been damaged or are missing.

To do this:

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Right click on the game > Select "Properties" > Select "Local Files" > Click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..."
Steam will then scan the game's files, and re download any files that it finds problems with.

Other than this, it's worth checking the Steam forum for the game you're having trouble with to see if anybody there shares the same issue. You can get there quickly by right clicking on the game in Steam and selecting "View Forum"
Click to expand...

Thats better, copied the right thing.
 
I verified it, turned off the overlay and logged into Windows Live (took 45 minutes to get the ******* to work) but it's still crashing early on in the game (still haven't made it past my first birthday).

I'm going to try those addons you mentioned, Evilsod. Not sure it will do any good as the game crashes at different points each time. Sometimes it crashes when the father announces to his wife that they've got a baby boy, sometimes it crashes when the father leaves me alone in my play pen and sometimes it crashes just after I've read that baby book that allows me to alter my main skills.

But I suppose it's worth a try. Thanks again.
 
It's just crashed at exactly the same point. I'm 19, I'm trying to escape the vault, I enter the atrium for the first time (you see two vault dwellers get gunned down as they try to make a break for it) and it crashes straight away.
 
What have you tried so far?

Try installing the Wanderers Edition mod, its nice and simple if you use FOMM to create FOMODs or just copy it in manually. You can reset everything it alters back to vanilla (it has presets and you can alter options individually if you want too) so you don't have to worry about changing the gameplay to something you don't want, and it also adds Sprint, Night Vision and Bullet Time too, amongst other things. Then all you've got to do is select 'Alternative Start' which kicks in after the 'birth' sequence and choose your background. The safe choice would be Vault Dweller.
 
I had problems installing Wanderers. I couldn't get FOSE to install (apparently this is necessary for Wanderers to work). It kept telling me to place it in the same folder as Fallout.exe, which I did but it still wouldn't install it. (I'm using the steam version of F3 if that makes any difference).
 
What do you mean it wouldn't install it? You don't have to install anything. You just download the file (fose_v1_2_beta2.7z), extract everything, then copy everything in the subfolder across (it should be, amongst other things, lots of fose.dll things and an 'src' folder, not the folder before it). Just place it in Steam/Steamapps/Common/Fallout3.

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I literally deleted Fallout 3 (steam version) last night to do a clean install as i had a few mods in need of updating and figured i'd be better off starting over. First attempt without any mods, got to the end of the birth sequence and quit. Added in FWE and the Unofficial Fallout Patch (which you could also try). Oddly the game froze before i got the option to choose a name, worked on the second try, alt start as a Cyborg and wandered a bit, no problems, quit, installed the rest of the mods. Fired it up again after creating a merged patch, froze as i was being pushed out at the end of the sequence, restarted and its been working fine since.
 
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Depends how you want to do it.

If you want to convert them into FOMods using the FOMM as it allows for easy installation/uninstallation/modification, open up 'Package Manager', select 'Add FOMod', then select the zip folder for Part 1 (as downloaded, not extracted or anything) and it'll do the rest for you. Once its done, select it and press activate, it'll give you a couple of options i think but nothing major. Then do the same things for Part 2 and the Hotfix.

Alternatively if thats a bit of a headache, just extract all 3 files to another folder, put the Part 2 files in the Part 1 folder, then put the Hotfix in and overwrite anything, then copy the entire to the Fallout 3/Data folder (you should get lots of things merging and overwriting).

You should probably get Darn UI if you don't already have it for the sake of your sanity (thats a direct link to the FOMOD version). Just use the package manager, add fomod, select it and activate it. You can add in the Hotfix from FWE manually, though its not critical.

You can turn pretty much every new gameplay setting off if you don't want it. Though you will (tragically :p) be stuck with a large number of new weapons and ammunition types and a few new perks/balances.

If you get lost i'll add in some screenshots.
 
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