Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

What the hell.

Thats all I have to say.
I'm afraid to go through doors, fast travel, see the loading screen and save games. Every time I do any one of these, CTDs have a 60% chance of appearing.

Re: Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

CTDs?

Re: Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

Crash to desktops.

I've checked my mods, and they don't seem to clash in anyways, and should be overridden. I started like 3 new characters. Wham, after like 2 levels, doors, loading screens and saves become dangerous.

Re: Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

This is why I do all my gaming on playstation3 now. I dont do it on the computer BECAUSE of this reason.

Re: Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

Have you installed the newest patch? Tried running it without your mods? Also make sure you are using the latest drivers for your hardware (graphics drivers, sound, ect..).

I've never had that problem with Fallout, even in the 60+ hours i'm into it now.

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So it would a be lot helpfull if you actually posted your specs.

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I'm glad I got the 360 version really, despite my PC being as powerful as it is.

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awh, i have the same problem to. are u sure u arnt playing for incredibly long periods of time? because i play for at least 3 to 4 hours and plus my brother plays about the same. so i then it just crashes and after i wait for half and hour or so. it works fine. either that or update ur drivers.

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Yeah, I have the latest patch. Yes I have the latest drivers.

And as far as specs go, I've seen people with much better specs crashing randomly too.
Anyways this is all I can remember of mine.
3.06Ghz Intel Pentium 4 (Single core)
1.5GB RAM
Windows XP SP3
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT


I played about 2 hours each before crashing. Plus I have the game immersion thing where saving is like not breathing for a couple of minutes.

Re: Random CTDs in Fallout 3
 

Hello Blitz

I can tell you that Fallout 3 does not like the newer surround sound features most new sound cards have. Things like DS3D Gx cause it to crash out in the way your describing.

Turning off surround sound and any DS3D Gx features and reverting to PCM stereo reduced my crashes from about the same as you are having all the way down to zero.

I had my first crash today in over a week and that came after installing the 1.4 patch via windows games live. Only had it installed a day so its too early to say if it broke anything new. All I know is windows games live has a habbit of corrupting files i download and i had to download the 1.4 patch via windows games live.

Scarey stuff.

All the best, hope the tip above works for you.