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A freind told me that I need to install it using the device manager, so I'm trying to figure that out. He said when he installed it that way it played with or without the patch. He owns A dell quad core with 7 ultimate.
A freind told me that I need to install it using the device manager, so I'm trying to figure that out. He said when he installed it that way it played with or without the patch. He owns A dell quad core with 7 ultimate.
Install what through device manger? The game itself or the video drivers?
It can't be the game he's talking about....
He probable was talking about the drivers. But I didn't know that at the time. So I copied and past the folders from the game DVD into a file and loaded it from there using the XP pack3 and I just got through playing the game for a smooth nonlagging injoyable hour. When I tried to do the same thing from the DVD it wouldn't work.
Last edited by Lugwrench; 24 Oct 2009 at 16:02.
Hmmmm...
I have a Core 2 Quad, and like many of you was having frequent lockups while moving in game. I made the changes to the fallout.ini suggested in the first post, and it actually made the problem worse! Now instead of locking up after 5 minutes or so of play, it would freeze as soon as my character took a single step!
So I entered these settings instead:
bUseThreadedAI=0
iNumHWThreads=1
and it seems to have helped. Though I am getting strange images on screen after loading. What would normally be a black screen for a few seconds between the load screen and game now has white shapes from the pipboy!
I have no clue what caused that, and can't really describe it without taking a screen shot!
This is the only solution I've found to stop the constant crashings (some occurring as soon as I load my game up and some occurring randomly after 5-10 minutes of gameplay)
I tried this solution before but found it didn't work.. This is because I edited the fallout ini in program files and NOT in my documents/games/fallout3
If you use this fix in the right ini, the game will work! Edit the ini file in my documents and NOT programs!
You do know/realize that the latest patch for Fallout 3 is 1.7?
Fallout: Welcome to the Official Site
Not saying the above fix doesn't work, but it does say the fix is based on the 1.1 patch
Gamebryo's quad core issues have never been truly fixed.
Original post was at 8-10-2009, when the current patch WAS 1.1, while the newest patch has obviously changed. i found this information helpful (it worked), and wanted to thank you and to point out the timing difference to the people posting about different versions of the game nearly a year later.