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Fallout 3 Windows 7 freeze fix?

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Jay221

I was recently gifted fallout 3 and i tried playing it it freezes a few min in like when you are one years old and when you get out of the playpen, I tried a lot of fixes and it doesn't work please help.

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aPieceofPie

Try putting your heater on it to thaw it out. Failing that get better insulation for your home. It's probably not healthy for your child if your playpen gets that cold btw.

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Jay221

Why you so troll?

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Tycrane

^ your avatar.

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nath2000wild

haha :D

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aPieceofPie

Because I finished my last exam 2 hours ago and I am not used to having spare time.

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SalisMan

First question: What are your PC specs?

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Jay221

Samsung QX410
Intel Core i5
Nvidia 310m Direct X 10
4 gigs ram.

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SalisMan

Try this!

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Jay221

I tried this the game lasted a little bit longer but crashed at my the birthday party.

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SalisMan

You said your game freezing, not crashing. It started to crash with new drivers?

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Jay221

My bad it froze even when i updated my driver.

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scurvebeard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GN5HbMsMVE

This resolved some people's problems, including mine. It might not be what you need, and it WILL reset your video settings. You should be able to put them right back how you like them, however. It shouldn't eat your savegame but might (not that you necessarily care.)

Good luck!

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MaximumBunny

I have 1 method saved. Try this.

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BloodFr0st

^ was just typing that fix out. Try that one.

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SHIV

yep, got through 110 hours on win7 64bit with only... 4 crashes total, after applying that fix.

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Raverkid

Yup that was the one I used years ago to fix my problems. Once I did that, no more crashes. Fallout 3 has real issues when trying to multithread on more than 2 cores.

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bonshankhan

I did that (though i had to change my iNumHWThreads=2 to 1 instead of 2.) Then i installed the klite mega codec pack and then put a copy of the d3d9.dll into the fallout 3 folder. Seems to have alleviated my crashes completely. (well cept when i try to use too many mods at once heh.)

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service4nopurpose

That game is buggy and is a poor console port. I got 8 crashes in about 100 hours of playtime

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bonshankhan

8 crashes in about 100 hours of playtime is actually pretty damn good. Compared to the fact I have 72 hours in skyrim and it has probably crashed 20+ times on me. :p

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bondKI

No 8 crashes in 100 hrs are NOT good. It would only be good if he had zero crashes. (And btw, I´ve installed 42 mods for skyrim and it didnt crash once in now 80 hrs)

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DoubleQuarterPounder

8 crashes in 100 hours is nothing compared to how many crashes I have in 400 hours

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Jay221

I only got through 25 min of gameplay with like 10 crashes T_T.

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Jay221

Omg I cant get throught the GOAT test because that takes to long and it crashes mid-way lmao.

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Jay221

FUCK ME IT WAS RUNNING ON MY INTEL GRAPHICS CARD INSTEAD OF MY NVIDIA -_-

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Kunibert

problem? :}

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Jay221

NVM still doesn't work FML :(

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Kunibert

have you checked the steam forum section for it? I sadly can't help you I'm afraid, I only played 3 hrs and didn't have a crash.

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Jay221

Yes, I have nothing works.

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Jay221

I might just buy New Vegas because that works on Windows 7 T_T.

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nasaria1

Try running it with compatibility mode windows xp. Also, run it as an administrator through task manager.

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krisztian1997

I used this to fix my fallout 3 http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/3808 , it never crashed anymore and a lot of bugs were fixed.

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