Fallout 3 on Windows 7 w/quad core

FNV has its own issues, but I found something that fixed my problems.

One was the directx performance issue, which has now been fixed via the latest patch.

The other was horrible, brain bleeding stutter/lag when turning with a lot of NPC's in the area, dead or alive.

This thread was most helpful, even though it referred to Fallout 3 and not specifically to FNV:
Fallout 3 still Stuttering - 195.62 - NVIDIA Forums

If links are not allowed, here is the contents of my post:


Posted 24 October 2010 - 05:08 PM BlueSteel, on May 23 2010, 04:07 PM, said:
I did a few more tests, specifically in the player house in Megaton. I get the hang exactly once in that house; after that I can turn around all I want without any hitching.

These are the changes/tweaks I did, only listing the ones I believe to be somewhat relevant:

• Set "iPresentInterval" to 0 in Fallout.ini (disables v-sync)
• Set "iNumHWThreads" to 2 in Fallout.ini (fixes crashes with 64bit OS and quadcores)
• Set AA transparency to multisample, disabled v-sync and set pre-rendered frames to 0 in NVIDIA control panel
• Set AA to 4x, all options to "Ultra", Water Reflection Quality to "Medium" and disabled Transparency Multisampling in the Fallout Launcher

Gets me extremely smooth 60fps outdoors and 100-150fps indoors; no hitching except the one-time occurence inside the Megaton player house.



(I replied):
Thanks much for those settings. They seem to also fix issues with Fallout New Vegas and stutter while turning. That lag/stutter issue was worst when near NPC's, dead or alive. It was pretty much unplayable and vomit inducing.

Also, here are some other multi-threaded tweaks that seem to improve performance on my GTS 250 w/Quad core AMD (update them in FalloutPrefs.ini):

bUseThreadedBlood=1
bUseThreadedMorpher=1
bUseThreadedTempEffects=1
bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1
bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHavokThreads=3
bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen=1
bUseMultiThreadedTrees=1

I have the problem that if I press new game then yes it freezes and states that it has stopped working.

I have Phenom and im running win 7 64bit but swapped Nvidia for radeon 6870 and im still having the same problem its not just Fallout 3 but Crysis and lots other games

I have win 7 64 bit, phenom, 8 GB ram, radeon 6870, and had the same problem but this fixed it. Big Thanx, hope I can find fix's so easy for all the other games that don't work.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH FALLOUT 3 ON WINDOWS 7 here is a solution ( maybe) in Fallout3 file C/Programfiles(x86)/Bethesda Softwork/Fallout3 right click on Fallout3 Launch icon with the face click properties and then Compatibility in there set your Compatibility mod to vista , vista sp1 or vista sp2 ............ because when i did that my freeze didnt come up and he was coming up after 10 seconds after loading save andsometime in the beginning.............but i need to tell i didnt play for long because it was late but still try out:)

question so if i change iNumHWThreads=2
to iNumHWThreads=4
will it work with all 4cores on

this worked for me. The game worked find for a while, then started crashing often. I applied this fix and now it works fine again.

Decided to install fallout 3 on my new machine to give it a good run through. Was having the same crash every 5-10 minute issue, sound would keep going. Had to manually kill task. Edited the .ini as stated in the fix, and it worked. Game version I have is final release, game of the year edition. Before steam got their paws on it. Thanks to whomever put up that fix.

I did the trick with the fallout.ini I also downloaded the 1.7 patch. It still freezes on me. I feel like I have to save every 30 seconds and inch my way to outside the vault. I do not know what else to do, I loved the game on xbox. It seems, that I have had to do work to every game I purchase for the PC. PLEASE ANYONE HELP ME OUT!

This is a video I made because I have found a working solution for the crashing problems, I too had these problems but the video is very clear in what needs to be done.
Fallout 3 (GOTY) Steam FIX - YouTube

Please like it if it helped you.
thanks