this might sound cool to some, but its breaking my immersion on my savegame :/

story goes -

i stopped playing fallout 3 ages ago but recently got the GOTY on the steam sale because id never played any of the dlc on the pc version of the game.
i didnt fancy starting a fresh game so i loaded up a save from a long time ago. where my character is inside the foyer of the water purifier on her way to do what has to be done (basically saved near the end of the game)

as soon as i load and have despatched the nearby enclave soliders my game levels, i set my stats and come out.... then it levels me again.... and again... and again.... until i expect reach the cap. i didnt let it get that far because to me it was already ruining immersion by sticking me past level20 before id done anything anyway.
my character is level17, nearly 18 - probably 1 kill away from level 18 - when i load the save.

wtf is causing that?

no mods installed. except all the dlc obviously. i do get the messages about a riverboat, a radio signal, broken steel level cap increase etc etc before, during and after the fierfight with the enclave soldiers.

addition - did have martigens mutant mod rc 61 (whatever the latest rc is as of this date) installed when i tried starting a new game, but then i realised i didnt want to slog through it all again and i removed that fomod using fomm before loading this old save game, so all esp and esm references + other texture/sound data are gone aswell.

game is set to normal difficulty. enclave soldiers were giving me +50xp when killed.

edit - fallout 3 goty is patched to whatever the latest version is.
its also the steam version. ambient occlusion performance level is switched on in nvidia control panel.
win 7 64bit
quad q8400 - inumhwthreads=2 set in ini.
gtx 560 ti - 275.33 drivers
4gb ddr2



edit 2 - after a bit of checking the game isnt leveling me infinitely. its giving me massive amoutsn of exp after each kill.
eg. if i kill all those enclave soldiers in the water purifier foyer/gift shop area, it gives me 6 levels worth of experience for it.

when i kill autumn and his 2 gatling laser goons in the rotunda it takes me halfway up the lvl24 bar.

i tried loading an even earlier save in the citadel, before speaking to the lyons pride leader female and before the giant robot is activated. as soon as i kill any anything and get exp it goes ballistic and levels me with a giant exp bonus.


edit 3 -

loaded up an even earlier save, at tenpenny tower. checked my stats screen.

its listing - lvl17 - exp 43300/23800

wtf? no wonder when i hit anything i level up instantly. its like the game has given me about 20000 more exp than i should have.
i would understand this if i were at the pre-broken steel level cap of 20. but im only lvl17 in this save.

what console commands can i use to drop that exp level down?

i used the getxpfornextlevel console command and it shows that i need -19000.0 xp to level.

somethings definitely wrong. desperately need to reset my exp.

think i might have solved it.

i used the player.rewardxp -20000 command to get rid of the excess xp i had.

i 'think' its worked. i leveled once to level18 and now my xp on the pipboy stats screen says 240/26000
kills are now giving 100xp per.

just need clarification that xp should reset upon each lvl up.
eg. should it be 240/26000 or should it be 23240/26000



i initially tried the player.modav xp -20000 command, but it came up with a error message about 'actor value 'xp' cannot be modified in console or script' . wtf?