It has been a long time... Has anyone found a working fix for Fallout 3?

This is definitely an audio issue it seems. Do you have any 3rd party codec packs installed at all? Things like xvid codecs for example? (the usually come with audio codecs as well)

I remember getting issues with fallout and ffdshow I think. Just uninstall them all and use windows defaults. If you need to play xvids and the like use VLC player.
 
I assume the standard INI fix (change bUseThreadedAI=0 to bUseThreadedAI=1 and insert a line iNumHWThreads=2) has been done OP? That is meant to resolve freezing and crashing though not stuttering and tearing.

I can't say I've experienced stuttering in Windows 7 x64 or Windows 8.1 but I had another issue on the weekend - despite the game working perfectly the week before and nothing changing, I tried to run it on the weekend and would get instantaneous crashes without even seeing the loading screen. The only way I've fixed that one is to use D3D9Gen to create my own D3D9.dll file and put it in the game's directory. Annoying as anything.

EDIT: You'll never believe it. I've just deleted my custom-made D3D9.dll file, uninstalled Microsoft Silverlight and the game is working again like it was a week earlier. No help to the OP I know but worth sharing for anyone else reading.
 
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I don't believe I have any 3rd party codec packs installed, though god knows what rubbish I have accumulated on this OS in all my faffing. :p

I definitely don't have FFDShow, I checked that previously.

Yes I have tried the INI fix as stated in the OP, it doesnt work.
 
I suggest getting the GOTY edition off Steam. I've just started it again as I never actually finished it first time around and didn't do any of the DLC either. Works fine with a pile of mods and the edits to the ini file.
 
No worries. I think i'll play it a bit tonight on my other machine. At least I know that *should* work. :rolleyes:
 
Check 2 things.

The lighting (from the launcher) drop this down to its simplest (lowest) setting
and work from there. This caused my game to CTD a lot until I accepted I wouldnt be able to play with the highest lighting settings.


Xonar DX Audio Centre (or whatever your flavour is called). Disable all the post proccesing and "fake" effects stuff you can. Especialy disable the GX(fake EAX) stuff. This causes no end of games to CTD.
 
The game doesnt CTD, it locks up. That fix says its not for G4WL, so i'd need to buy it again before using that patch. Or at least grab a steam version from the net. :(

I'm playing it on my other PC now. Vista, dual Xeon E5430's, HD4670, runs it like a champ. (kinda) :)
 
I've recently upgraded CPU and motherboard and Fallout 3 gone from working fine to being quite unstable. For me it kept crashing when i went into new area and auto save kicks in. I've applied the patches and the fix the OP mentioned at the beginning and seem to have the game fairly stable now I've restricted it to one CPU core "V=iNumHWThreads=1".
 
I tried t' catch a new vessel in th' cove but 't didna set sail me' heartie.

The sirens took it jus' like t' one I traded me measures o' rum for.

Or something.

(the thing you didnt ask about didnt work sir)
 
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It just recently stopped working on the old PC as well, on which it had previously been working flawessly :(

I wouldn't have been surprised if it didn't work at all given that the old PC has a pair of quad core xeons (if anything will break it eh?) But no, it worked for a while then stopped...

I think it may be time to try the tale of two wastelands mod for New Vegas.
 
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