why cant i play Fallout 3 ?

Mal X · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:07

mine crashes all the time, i've tried everything but nothing works.... it's bug infested..... according to the Web there's loads of pc gamers that have the same problems..

i've tried......... reducing to medium quality...turning everything off.....turning off the in game radio.....not taking Dogmeat with me.....fresh install. :cool:

does anybody know how to solve this riddle?

Kriist · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:11

any system specs?

Beerbaron · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:16

latest drivers and game patch?

Simi · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:20

Kriist said:
any system specs?

These would help

britboy4321 · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:23

You're accidentally putting the CD into your toaster rather than the CD drive.

Just a guess ....

strumpusplunket · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:26

You got Games for Windows installed? I suddenly found regular crashes cropping up after installing that and the DLC.

Some info here

Mal X · 30 Jun 2009 at 16:04

i've both patches ... games for windows etc.... but not the latest gtx 9800 drivers....... :eek:

Dutch Guy · 30 Jun 2009 at 16:12

Fallout 3 corrupts saves so if you get constant crashing with one save there is nothing you can do other than loading an older save.

I make a LOT of manual saves for this reason.

Mal X · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:04

Dutch Guy said:
Fallout 3 corrupts saves so if you get constant crashing with one save there is nothing you can do other than loading an older save.

I make a LOT of manual saves for this reason.

thanks.... there's something seriously wrong with this game because there's loads of complaints online..

Fallout 3 crashes all the way through... it's even lost all my saves and dumped me back into Vault 101 as a kid again, you cant tell when it's going to crash, there's no pattern..one day only 2 crashes and the next day 10.

i stopped playing it a month ago...great shame.

Darg · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:13

tbh the game never crashed for me. Just got bored after the first week or two of play.

neverender · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:15

Old system:
E2200, 2gig RAM, 3870 512mb, X-fi, Windows XP 32bit
Crash Crash Crash Crash

New system:
AMD Phenom II 720BE, 4gig RAM, 4870 1gig, onboard sound, Win7 64bit
Crash Crash Crash Crash

I've given up. Not remotely interested in putting in more effort to get Fallout running; if it's this badly put together it can stuff it.

krooton · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:32

I had maybe 3 crashes through the 50 hours I put in.

AWPC · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:34

In around 130 hours so far I have had few crashes. It works best if installed on the same drive letter as Windows. Also, like most PC games have the latest drivers for everything.

Mal X · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:51

latest drivers....no..... it crashes with these too.

it'll either work fine, but if you're one of the unlucky many, it'll crash all the time

because all these recommendations have been tried already... the greatest suspect is : the Audio/ surround sound whatever.... sound card...dont know enough about the technicalities.

i was hoping that someone would say.. ``the problem is definitely bla bla bla... do this and it'll never crash again``........wishful thinking i suppose :cool:

there is no point downloading the expansions etc.. they're even worst... Bethseda are making no efforts to solve this problem, they couldn't care less.. they just keep releasing buggy expansions.

i've managed 4 play throughs, but what a nightmare!

Tummy · 30 Jun 2009 at 18:06

You've still not put up your system specs ?

I've not had a single problem / crash with this game. It did however, bore me as I found it difficult to get in to, so I've not played it much.

Raumarik · 30 Jun 2009 at 18:46

I had a problem with Xfire and Fallout 3, never figured out why, but once I uninstalled Xfire it worked fine

previously it'd randomly freeze.

Mal X · 30 Jun 2009 at 20:22

gtx 9800
old MSI mobo...not sure which one
4gb RAM
ATHLON 64FX2 6400
WIN XP

Fallout 3 originally said ``high quality``

fallout 3 is not on the same drive as XP and i'm not sure about XFIRE, i cannot risk starting up pc till the PSU is replaced to find out

Tummy · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:54

Mal X said:
gtx 9800
old MSI mobo...not sure which one
4gb RAM
ATHLON 64FX2 6400
WIN XP

Fallout 3 originally said ``high quality``

fallout 3 is not on the same drive as XP and i'm not sure about XFIRE, i cannot risk starting up pc till the PSU is replaced to find out

That should be alright to play it on.
One user has said that Xfire had problems with Fallout 3, so try uninstalling that first.
Make sure, all Your drivers are up to date and try a fresh clean install of the game.

Phobia_mp3 · 30 Jun 2009 at 22:55

Kind of had the same issue, it played perfect until i left the vault and it just kept crashing, tried everything to fix it but nothing worked so I just gave up :/

Mal X · 1 Jul 2009 at 03:01

Phobia_mp3 said:
Kind of had the same issue, it played perfect until i left the vault and it just kept crashing, tried everything to fix it but nothing worked so I just gave up :/

why it doesn't crash in the Vault is odd.....this is common to nearly everyone, because you're inside the vault for quite some time....the open areas outside are more graphically intensive and it crashes far more in the Wastelands than it does down below in the subways or inside buildings.....very strange. ...... Crysis was very similar too, but didn't crash nearly as often....that used to crash most of all at auto save points.

i'll try everything mentioned