Hi, I'm running fallout 3 goty off steam. I started a new game and it worked just fine at first, I got to the part where my father asked me to walk to him as a child and i saved. I kept on going to the point where I had the read the I'm s.p.e.c.i.a.l. book and exited. When I loaded I was back to before I walked to my dad, but when I did it froze. It does this every time now. I tried starting over, but now it freezes directly after i pick my gender.

I tried re installing, verifying my steam cache, and running at the lowest settings all to no avail. Just a side note, new vegas, oblivion, and morowind run fine (they are all running off the steam client as well).

I'm running windows 7, 64 bit. I have 8gig of ram, 2gb memory card, and an i5 2.3 ghz processor. So I doubt it is a hardware problem

Please help, thanks.

-Nate

You have a system with a CPU with 4 threads, which the game really dislikes. Try the quadcore fix.
Open up the .ini file located in My Documents>My Games>Fallout 3. *Do not alter the one in the actual game directory labeled Fallout_Default_ini*
In the FALLOUT.ini find the line

bUseThreadedAI=0
change the 0 to a 1

then below it add the line

iNumHWThreads=2

Thanks so much =]