Fallout 3 and Windows 7

jp_bl_68 · 5 Apr 2011 at 12:27

Brilliant. That's got it working.

Thanks mate. I'm off to nuke Megaton

Evilsod · 5 Apr 2011 at 12:31

jp_bl_68 said:
Brilliant. That's got it working.

Thanks mate. I'm off to nuke Megaton

Those lucky people

So the Alt-Start bypassed the problem or did you not give it time to find a new problem?

Did you change the preset back to vanilla or just go with in all its glory?

jp_bl_68 · 5 Apr 2011 at 13:01

The alt-start seems to have bypassed the problem but I've only been playing for half an hour. Fingers crossed it's sorted.

I went in with pretty much everything turned on, I think.

Evilsod said:
Those lucky people

I'm normally a nice guy but I've restarted this game so many times in the past I'm sick of doing all the Megaton missions. Also, I like explosions

spudgun79 · 5 Apr 2011 at 13:08

This is fairly irrelevant but Fallout NV killed my 9800gtx+

opethdisciple · 5 Apr 2011 at 13:23

Both Fallout and especially NV are two of the worst optimised games I have every played.

alex24 · 5 Apr 2011 at 13:31

spudgun79 said:
This is fairly irrelevant but Fallout NV killed my 9800gtx+

A game can't kill your graphics card. Bad graphics drivers might (but it's rare), otherwise it could be overheating, dust, your PSU or just the age and build quality of the card.

Evilsod · 5 Apr 2011 at 15:17

jp_bl_68 said:
The alt-start seems to have bypassed the problem but I've only been playing for half an hour. Fingers crossed it's sorted.

I went in with pretty much everything turned on, I think.

I'm normally a nice guy but I've restarted this game so many times in the past I'm sick of doing all the Megaton missions. Also, I like explosions

Heh, blowing up Megaton does look very cool. Strange that the problem was only in the Vault.

Mine seems to be running fine for now. Started at Raven Rock as an Enclave Refugee (strangely enough without basic power armour training...), grabbed the unique power armour very randomly placed in a foot locker right outside. Made my way to Paradise Falls via the Drifter to get his unique Laser Rifle. Laughed off a group of Raiders as they could barely scratch me with Power Armour on. Sold some junk at Paradise Falls and found out it costs 300 caps to get to Big Town with the Caravan... Encountered 2 Enclave Deathclaw Alpha's, eventually found a free clinic near a railway station and scavenged some medical braces so i could heal my arm, rested a bit, realised its absolutely pitch black at night with this weather mod. Finally made it to Megaton and talked Mr Burke out of blowing up the place (i may be evil but mass murder needs the personal touch

).

So much better than 'Leave the Vault, travel to Megaton, get massively irradiated for Moira by swimming down the river all the way to Rivet City to get the +1 Int bobblehead'. Mostly because trying that in FWE would see you dieing of radiation poisoning 40 seconds in

Secret_Window · 5 Apr 2011 at 16:05

I've just started playing this properly on my new spec pc, and I've got to megaton but every few mins it crashes to desktop during this part. I'm using the Steam version.

Any ideas what's going on? :confused:

Evilsod · 5 Apr 2011 at 16:17

Try some of the config fixes posted earlier (or the unofficial fallout patch).

Also as stupid as it sounds, load the save game, start a fight, get yourself killed, let it reload and see if it fixes itself.
Not sure if its still happening but earlier if my game crashed randomly, any attempt to save it afterwards would result in instant crash and it generally played really badly and felt like it was gonna crash anyway. Getting myself killed and it reloading it always seem to fix it for some reason.

Could always be a corrupted save file too. Does it also crash if you leave Megaton and go elsewhere or load an old file and go elsewhere? If it only breaks in Megaton you could try sleeping for 4 days and having the cell reset (not sure if that works for Megaton though...).

MoratJG · 5 Apr 2011 at 17:39

Evilsod said:
Also as stupid as it sounds, load the save game, start a fight, get yourself killed, let it reload and see if it fixes itself.
Not sure if its still happening but earlier if my game crashed randomly, any attempt to save it afterwards would result in instant crash and it generally played really badly and felt like it was gonna crash anyway. Getting myself killed and it reloading it always seem to fix it for some reason.

I've had exactly the same experience with FWE. It would crash repeated at some random point on the map that I might have visited several times (without incident) before. The only way to fix it was by doing ^that^.

Evilsod · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:01

MoratJG said:
I've had exactly the same experience with FWE. It would crash repeated at some random point on the map that I might have visited several times (without incident) before. The only way to fix it was by doing ^that^.

What version was it? It was doing that on version 5, its not been crashing as much since i upgraded to 6.03 (i was still using an outdated FOIP though) but everytime it did i'd suicide so i was never sure it would still crash. Since the clean install with all the mods upgraded its been fine (bar the usual crash on exit).

Great additions on MMM too. Wandering the wasteland and suddenly a group of 3 Monstrous Dogs (Pseudo-Dogs) came at me.

MoratJG · 5 Apr 2011 at 19:39

It was 6.02, iirc. I did install New Vegas whilst still playing FO3, mind. So I assume in trying to get FOSE/NVSE and GFWL all playing happily, I may have broken something.

Secret_Window · 5 Apr 2011 at 21:17

I think I've fixed (well, so far so good) by alt-tabbing during Megaton part and it seems OK now.

Edit: Anyone know some good walkthroughs/guides to playing this game? I've done the Megaton bit (fixing the leaking pipes) and now I'm doing the quest to the radio station to find my dad, but finding it incredibly hard with all the raiders being around, and having really poop guns.