Fallout 3 on Windows 7 w/quad core

[happycamper]

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

 

[Souljoker]

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

 

[Balthazod]

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

 

[Balthazod]

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.

 

[ANTONPRIVALOV]

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

 

[wrbtanis]

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

 

[Anamacha]

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.

 

[Cilerium]

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.

 

[foxxing]

Still freezing

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!

 

[dragon15]

Found the solution!

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

 

[Anamacha]

thanks for the hard work ... I don't have intel graphics, though, I've got ATI.

THANKS though!

 

[dragon15]

Should work for all

If your having this problem for the game then it should still work as it is not limited to intel only, reason why intel was used here was because of the amount of people that have intel and have this problem was significantly high. Thank you for your support!

 

[MrSH4RKYY]

Thank you!!!

Thanks man really helped me alot!!!
Sharky icnic:

 

[MrSH4RKYY]

Thank you my good friend!! this worked for me! i got my new gaming PC about 8 months ago and got fallout 3 never worked tried this and it worked!!! thank you sooooo muchhhhh

 

[Leraji]

Just want to say, that after almost 10 years, this fix STILL WORKS FLAWLESSLY. Cant believe Bethesda couldnt implement this fix themselves, especially with the announcement of Fallout 76. Thanks Again!

 

[Tactics]

Works like a champ!! great fix.

 

[elenaaustin87]

I played FO3 using Win XP, Win 7 and Win 10 without any issues. I currently have FO3 installed on one desktop and 2 laptops. I did not really have to do anything special to get FO3 running except for installing Games For Windows Live (GFWL) which is not installing along with Windows 10 because Microsoft abandoned it back around 2013. I also installed FOSE (Fallout Script Extender) which disable the game from checking GFWL.

If anything, you can play FO3 in Windows XP compatibility mode. Fallout 3 officially only supports Windows XP because Windows 7 was not released until 11 months after FO3 was published.

just be aware that FO3 itself is rather buggy. I had similar problems with the game right now as I did back in October 2008 with the game crashing or freezing a lot in full screen mode. Whenever I play FO3 for the 1st time during the day I always launch it in full screen mode. If the game freezes or crashes, then I launch the game in Windowed mode which prevents the game from crashing most of the time.