[TriplexDread]

Hiya folks

Decided to intall FO3 again yeasterday. Been having nothign but problems with it

Every few seconds it skips or freezes for no reason

I have done a search and read about problems with FFdshow sound settings also turned down all AA, Draw rates and resolution. No Vsync is on in fact setting are as low as I can get them. Its still freezes anywhere from 20seconds to 2mins at random points whilst playing (well attempting too) for aslong as 2 or 3mins at a time

Its completely and utterly puzzled me. I cant try the new nvidia driver because they crash my system so i'm at a loss.

Any ideas peeps?

thanks

[psd99]

Does that happen with other games too?

[Ian]

Perhaps try some of the older nVidia drivers, just to see if they are causing the problem. Freezing for 2 mins doesn't sound right at all!

[TriplexDread]

No guys its only this one It is completely doin my head in. Making it impossible to play

Yeah will try older drivers not even sure what i have on here now. I do know as i mentioned before the 181.20/21 do not work on my system, just crash it

[TriplexDread]

OK just again tried the 181.20 drivers again and they have worked, Hmmmm

I re-downloaded them

Mad thing is a good friend of mine was with me when I tried (Computer tech)
and the worked fine. Typical aint it! I said to him "there you go drivers calling me a liar" he just laughed. "Sods law" he said...

Amyway freezing and what not has stopped and it all runs a lot smoother now

Cheers anyway peeps

[V_R]

I know you said its fixed, but the latest patch is out now.

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/updates.html

[TriplexDread]

i patched it the other day i think mate. i remember having to put age check thingy in anyway

[Ian]

Originally Posted by V_R

I know you said its fixed, but the latest patch is out now.

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/updates.html

Thanks V_R, will patch mine now ready for my next try

[V_R]

Originally Posted by TriplexDread

i patched it the other day i think mate. i remember having to put age check thingy in anyway

Well that was released yesterday, so maybe your still on the old one?

[floppybootstomp]

Tonight I thought I'd play Fallout 3, haven't really played it yet, just installed it and went through the opening scenes.

I'd already patched the game with patch 10015 and it worked ok but after reading this thread I patched to latest version, 11035.

And blow me, after patching it wouldn't start, it hung and the sound just oscillated, in fact it hung my whole computer

So I uninstalled, reinstalled, didn't apply any patches and the game is working just fine, played about 20 minutes worth just to make sure.

I did suspect video drivers, had Nvidia V180.84 installed (Vista) and upgraded to V 181.20, latest aproved drivers. Didn't make a blind bit of difference.

So, the latest Fallout 3 patch seems to have a negative effect here.

It's late now, I worked today, I'm tired, but I'll come back to this.

Will probably play the game unpatched for now, unless I come across probs.