Originally posted by: Andrew1990
Ya, its a fun game when I am able to play it. The recommendation aka gave me did not help at all so I was searching and I was pointed to a 3rd party patch that may fix it but I am not expecting it to work miracles.
Meh, in terms of community-made fixes I tried everything but nothing worked, from registry tweaks passing by .INI tweaks and special codecs analyzes softwares up to the ultimate "solution" of formatting and re-installing the OS, nothing worked. And strangely enough ever since I updated all of my .NET Framework versions I can play around two hours before it crashes. When I only had the .NET version installed by the game's installer I couldn't play more than 30 minutes. It's the only thing so far that really made a tangible difference (installing .NET 2.0, then 2.0 SP1, 2.0 SP2, re-installing 3.0, then 3.0 SP1, then 3.5 and 3.5 SP1).
The one very frustrating thing so far about Fallout 3 (and Oblivion) issues is the fact that a number of players come and say that they've been able to play without a single issue whatsoever of any way, shape and form for weeks non-stop, and those guys got very similar hardware, a few literally had the exact same stuff that I do, with the same software, etc, but "somehow" the game refuses to be stable for me and it gets stable for others. I don't get it and quite frankly I don't even want to know what might be wrong. In my book playing Bethesda games with crashes is part of the normality ever since Morrowind was released (which also had problems, in my case that is).
I always like to point at the GameBryo engine's oldness as the primary cause, but then again those people around who experience no issues whatsoever will say that it's my system, and those who experience the same issues as me know for sure that it's not their system being the cause (when you play right after installing the OS and updating it with the official fixes and then updating the DirectX and even go in Clean Boot mode with no over-clocks at all and it still crashes you know something is wrong on the software side of things). As a side note I still sometimes play Oblivion, and I installed the 3,000+ bugs-fixing un-official patch and it still crashes after all those years of new hardware and drivers coming out since it was released and after the dozen revised versions of the un-official patch and two official patches, and even back then when I had another motherboard and CPU, memory and GPU it was still crashing.
But, as I said, they're great games. I swear some of the most stable games I've ever played are some of the worst. As if near-perfection games had a price, instability.
EDIT: By the way, to anyone with crashing/freezing issues in Fallout 3 you can always try your luck and read what the following thread has to offer in terms of "fixes":
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsfor...p?showtopic=920596&hl=
