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A unique Fallout 3 problem
Hi guys. Just signed up. This seems like a good forum, and everywhere else I've tried has been unable to assist.
I think I have a slightly unique problem with F3 to what most people seem to encounter in the threads I have read through - mostly because I cannot get into the game at all and I am not getting any errors or anything.
When I press play from the launcher, I get a black screen with a loading cursor for a few seconds and then it all freezes. The whole system, not just F3. I have to restart the computer every time.
Things I have tried:
- Starting the launcher.exe straight out of the game folder, and the F3.exe as well, both with administrator and various levels of compatibility.
- Going back to pre-190 nVidia drivers. Also tried the latest 191 beta driver.
- Uninstalling X-Fi card and trying onboard sound only.
- Some thing to do with editing the .ini to solve problems arising from having 4+ cores.
- Tried installing the latest official patch from their site to see if that would help, but part way through the installation it went to the black screen with loading cursor and then the system froze... don't know why that happened during a patch installation but it was exactly the same thing as when I try to launch the game.
- Read that it might be an issue with playing it through Steam, so uninstalled it from that and re-installed directly to Windows with some ISOs.... still having exactly the same problem though. Tried the compatibility stuff with this new installation as well.... no luck.
Hopefully haven't missed anything that I've tried there. Please let me know if I can provide any additional information to help solve the problem.
I am getting desperate and I really want to play this game cranked on this new rig. It seems most people are having no problems whatsoever, or only requiring minor hacks/tweaks, to play this game on W7 64-bit...... but not me. Like I said haha, unique problem....
I have attached two DXDIAGs. When I run it there is a button at the bottom for a 64-bit DXDIAG. I have no idea if this is any different to the normal one, or which one I'm supposed to use so I attached both.
Please help.
Thanks.