- Jul 18, 2003
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I installed Fallout 3, got everything configured, and then went to playing. Game crashed to the desktop at my 10 year old birthday party every time Dad tried to say something. I was only 5 min into the game for crying out loud!
Rebooted my computer at this point and started up a new game. Everything went smooth for nearly an hour, but when I exited the game I got another crash to the desktop (CTD). I get the CTD whether or not I'm running the cracked game executable, so I don't think the copy protection is at fault here. I honestly think the game is just buggy. Hopefully it will get officially and unofficially patched like Oblivion did, but it sucks to have to wait such a long time to play such a great game.
Update (11/03/2008):
The game will play fairly reliably with no AA or 2x AA enabled. I also reduced the AF setting to 8 samples (down from 15) and this seemed to help as well. I've been able to play about 8 hours worth of the game with only a random crash thrown in here and there. The key to success is to have 3-4 gamesave files to revert to after a crash. I swear I'm saving the game like every 10-15 minutes to make sure I don't lose precious progress in the game.
I still stand behind my stance that the current state of this game is absolutely unacceptable. I have around 50 other games on my system, which all seem to run with near perfect stability. I sincerely hope Bethesda gets on a real patch before the first dog armor DLC comes out or I'm going to be one pissed off gamer.
Update (11/05/2008):
I'm playing with 2xAA, 8xAF, and HDR. Running the game from the fallout3.exe file instead of the launcher seems to keep the game from CTD when first running it. I was running a couple of Folding@Home processes while playing before (I have a quad core) and closing out those processes seems to help in-game crashing too. The CTD is weird though, if it's going to crash, it normally does so within 10 minutes. If it doesn't crash then you can potentially be good for hours.
My best advice, save save save and save (not a quicksave, but an actual from the menu save) some more. If your game crashes load the last save point, save the game at that spot, and load the new save you just created. This seems to get me prolonged periods of stability.
I'm now around 16 hours into the game and I'm savoring every last drop of atmosphere in the game. I love how many ways you can play this game.
Rebooted my computer at this point and started up a new game. Everything went smooth for nearly an hour, but when I exited the game I got another crash to the desktop (CTD). I get the CTD whether or not I'm running the cracked game executable, so I don't think the copy protection is at fault here. I honestly think the game is just buggy. Hopefully it will get officially and unofficially patched like Oblivion did, but it sucks to have to wait such a long time to play such a great game.
Update (11/03/2008):
The game will play fairly reliably with no AA or 2x AA enabled. I also reduced the AF setting to 8 samples (down from 15) and this seemed to help as well. I've been able to play about 8 hours worth of the game with only a random crash thrown in here and there. The key to success is to have 3-4 gamesave files to revert to after a crash. I swear I'm saving the game like every 10-15 minutes to make sure I don't lose precious progress in the game.
I still stand behind my stance that the current state of this game is absolutely unacceptable. I have around 50 other games on my system, which all seem to run with near perfect stability. I sincerely hope Bethesda gets on a real patch before the first dog armor DLC comes out or I'm going to be one pissed off gamer.
Update (11/05/2008):
I'm playing with 2xAA, 8xAF, and HDR. Running the game from the fallout3.exe file instead of the launcher seems to keep the game from CTD when first running it. I was running a couple of Folding@Home processes while playing before (I have a quad core) and closing out those processes seems to help in-game crashing too. The CTD is weird though, if it's going to crash, it normally does so within 10 minutes. If it doesn't crash then you can potentially be good for hours.
My best advice, save save save and save (not a quicksave, but an actual from the menu save) some more. If your game crashes load the last save point, save the game at that spot, and load the new save you just created. This seems to get me prolonged periods of stability.
I'm now around 16 hours into the game and I'm savoring every last drop of atmosphere in the game. I love how many ways you can play this game.
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