Help: Fallout 3 Crashes

domthecondom · 11 Oct 2010 at 19:36

Hi guys.

I am trying to replay thru Fallout 3 and try completed it before New Vegas is out.

I managed to get out of the vault but when I get to Megatron it randomly crashes when I am indoors.

I am on Windows 7
Patch 1.7
My GFX is a ATI 5870 on catalyst 10.9

Can anybody help?

Cheers

domthecondom · 12 Oct 2010 at 08:16

Hi Guys,

Cheers for your answer I will give some of these a go and report back later.

I ran this game on my E6850 and my 4850 with NO Crashes when I first bought it.

As I am on a fress install all my drivers are up to date.

Could it be Cat 10.9?

I will report back when I tried some of the fixes posted here. I finnish work at 4 so can't do anything before that

hehe and yes i did mean megaton

and not megatron

Cheers

Dom

domthecondom · 12 Oct 2010 at 12:32

Huddy said:
Fallout 3 also has issues with triple/quad core cpu's. I managed to halt the random crashes by editing the ini file.

So if you have you have either of the above try the following.

Find the line in your fallout 3 ini file bUseThreadedAI=0 and change it to 1 - then add on the next line iNumHWThreads=2.

Worked for me.

Does this disable 2 cores?

domthecondom · 12 Oct 2010 at 21:09

Hi guys the bUseThreadedAI=0 and change it to 1 - then add on the next line iNumHWThreads=2. helped a lot Cheers again

no crashes since

domthecondom · 13 Oct 2010 at 09:19

Haha I doubt I will completed this before Vegas as medal of honor is our Friday