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Okay, I've been trying to play this for days and it just keeps crashing. I really liked it until that started happening. Now I can only play it for about 5 min before it crashes to the desktop.

Any of y'all playing it have any issues like that?

I'm playing on low graphic settings.

I keep doing searches on it, but none of the answers apply to me or my settings, system, etc. Playing on low settings, no codecs installed, updated drivers, updated .net and applied service packs.
 
Doesn't surprise me. I play Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series quite a bit and it is the same thing crash after crash problem after problem. I call them Bugthesda,

Here is a link to their main forum. Lots of people here helping each other there with bugs and issues with all the Bethesda games

Bethesda Game Studios Forums (Powered by Invision Power Board)

Poke around or start your thread somebody will be along to help you out. Lots of nice folks there.

Moe
 
I was having the same problem, it turns out that turning off the Radio stopped the crashing. Which sucks because I find it funny and I love Billie Holiday.

But since the patch I can play w/ the radio and I get a crash maybe ever few hours. Which is "tolerable."
 
When you say crashing, you mean freezing up totally or CTD? I've played Fallout 3 twice, and only had a couple of freezing or CTD incidents. I had to take off my audio hardware acceleration, and set options for software audio instead of hardware, but that's about it.

The Bethesda boards have a PC tech forum that might be able to address your concerns. Check the "known problems" sticky thread first.

I hope you can resolve this. Fallout 3 is an absolutely awesome game, and it ran almost flawlessly for me through close to 200 hours of play.
 
How do I turn off the radio? I don't see that option. When I go to the radio section in the PipBoy, I just have options for two different channels. No "off" option there...

As far as what it's doing... well, it's sometimes crashing to the desktop, and sometimes freezing up so as to force a manual reboot of the machine. Occasionally when it crashes, it seems to take my video card with it because when my desktop comes back, it's at 600x480 res, 4 bit and I am unable to change it. I have to reboot in order to get my normal video settings back.

I didn't get any crashes at all while inside the vault, but once outside of it in Springvale (I think) it crashes constantly. And I mean constantly. I just now tried twice and both times it crashed in less than 1 min.

I'll check out Bethesda forums some more, but everything I've been reading doesn't seem to apply to my computer, software, settings, etc.
 
On your pipboy, you have a tab that gives you access to radio stations (only 2 at first, more later if you find them during exploration). Instead of listening to 3-dog or the yankee doodle station, just click them both to the off position.

Do go read the trouble-shooting stickies at the top of the Fallout 3 PC technical forum. There are several excellent suggestions and quick fixes offered for many of the problems.

BTW, did you install the patch 1.00.00.15? If so, I recommend you reinstall your game without the patch. It doesn't patch anything in the single-player game, and has apparently been the source of many CTD problems that did not exist before the patch was installed.
 
I have been playing the PC version just fine. I am actually on my third pass. This time I am going all bad guy.

Fallout 3 is a great sandbox game. I really love the futuristic apocalyptic concept with tie ins to the 40s/50s.
 
I tried installing the patch, but the patch installation crashes. It launches the game, and the game locks up.

I've been reading through the stuff on the forums there, but nothing seems to apply to me. :(
 
How much ram do you have and what type of video card? You need at least 256 DDR2 video card (6800/850+) to run the game. 512mb is recommended. Plus you should have at least 2GB of on board RAM.

I tried playing the game and it kept freezing before I got a new video card.
 
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Gibberish said:
How much ram do you have and what type of video card? You need at least 256 DDR2 video card (6800/850+) to run the game. 512mb is recommended. Plus you should have at least 2GB of on board RAM.

I tried playing the game and it kept freezing before I got a new video card.
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GeForce 7300 LE 512MB RAM

1 gig of system RAM though. I've ordered more but it seems to have gotten lost in the mail
 
rivrrat said:
I tried installing the patch, but the patch installation crashes. It launches the game, and the game locks up.

I've been reading through the stuff on the forums there, but nothing seems to apply to me. :(
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Reinstall the game. DO NOT install the patch. The patch may be the source of your problems.
 
rivrrat said:
How do I turn off the radio? I don't see that option. When I go to the radio section in the PipBoy, I just have options for two different channels. No "off" option there...
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When I select a station again it turns off.
 
DiAnna said:
Reinstall the game. DO NOT install the patch. The patch may be the source of your problems.
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No, it was crashing every 30 seconds long prior to the patch installation. I was hoping the patch might fix it, but even that crashed when I tried to install it. As far as I know, it didn't even install.

I can play a new game just fine, right up until I get to that ruined city outside of the vault, it seems.

:(:(
 
rivrrat said:
GeForce 7300 LE 512MB RAM

1 gig of system RAM though. I've ordered more but it seems to have gotten lost in the mail
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I have no idea then. I would think the RAM issues would make the game sluggish but not crash.

There must be some kind of driver conflict or something? That's beyond my knowledge of computers though.
 
rivrrat said:
No, it was crashing every 30 seconds long prior to the patch installation. I was hoping the patch might fix it, but even that crashed when I tried to install it. As far as I know, it didn't even install.

I can play a new game just fine, right up until I get to that ruined city outside of the vault, it seems.

:(:(
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Damn. And none of the suggestions for CTD on the Fallout 3 boards helped? You don't have to have identical specs for the information to be valuable.

BTW, 1 gig of ram is really, really baseline. I have 2 gig and it works great. It's possible that's your problem, because when you leave the vault the game has to load a massive background world that you can move through without load screens. Try again after you upgrade your ram, and let us know if it helps.
 
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