Ok ill give you the short version.

1 my game is screwed up and i cant get past the part when i wake up at raven rock. My screen is just black. i can hear ,move and click on things i just cant see anything. Its like the game somehow changed my brightness or gamma way down. i have gotten past this part on my first game so i know its possible but my first game messed up Quest wise and could not finish the game. So i played 2 more games And this problem showed up on both

2 i have tried fixing it with no luck. Now im wondering if i can just use console commands to complete the LAST quest. So i can play broken steel. I cant play it untill i finish the game , but after 3 games im not about to play another, it will just be the same outcome. And im already pissed another bad game will not help any.

3 At this point i dont even care about failed quests. Can i just put in codes to finish the last quest? (without having to go down the list of quests and put in completed codes for all of them to finish those) ?

4 i just want to try and fool the game into thinkiing i have finished the game . ( Is this possible????)

And thank you if your trying to help me .

You could do this but alot of stuff would be out of place. Do you have any mods active? If so its likely one of them is messing up your game, or is it just the plain game??

Dang sorry i wasnt expecting a reply so fast. I have FOMM its got in it
anchorage.esm 00
ThePitt.esm 01
BrokenSteel.esm 02
Pointlookout.esm 03
Zeta.esm 04
Fallout3.esm 05

As far as i know those are all vanilla , are they not?

EDIT What do you mean by alot of things out of place?

The only thing I can say about that is Fallout.esm should be the very first thing to load, ALWAYS, no matter what. Its number one. (or 00 in this case)

Just things that are triggered and changed by doing all the quests would not have occured. It would make things weird and out of order. I reccomend putting Fallout.esm on top and trying again. I dont think that should mess it up but its the only thing I can think of.

ok so it would just make things in the FO3 game strange, right ? But all i care about is being able to play broken steel. Is Broken steel like the other DLC where you are not in the DC area while playing. And no companions were able to follow in any of those ? is it the same way with broken steal not having any followers ? Thats the only thing that i can think of that could cause some major problems. But i could just do it solo to avoid that i think.. And last thanks for the info about the load order. Come to think about it the first game when i was able to get past raven rock was before the DLC was out. So you just might of found the problem for me. Thanks for your help i really mean that.

well i fixed the load order and went to an earlyer save to get hte geck woke up at raven rock with still a black screen. So i guess i will try just to put in the codes to end the game . So i can play broken steal. Thanks for your help though

Just out of curiosity, do you have all the latest official patches installed. Also, anyone know if there's problems with black screens and nvidia cards in fallout 3. I know there were some problems in oblivion.

im not sure about the latest updates . And like i said i have gotten past that part my very first game so i know it works on my v card . i was just unfortinate that that game got messed up quest wise and couldnt finish that one . So i have never finished FO3 . DOes anyone have a link to a list of quest id or stages codes ?

Well I'm not a modder but may be able to help a little.

As far as Fallout 3 goes I'm not aware of anything as useful as http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page is for Oblivion except the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Fallout_3

This section of the forum is for adding and using mods the section about http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/forum/36-fallout-3-pc-issues/ might be better suited for the kind of question you had. Or maybe http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/forum/39-fallout-3-cheats-hints-and-spoilers/.

The patch you should have is patch 1.7 - if you have game of the year that should be what came with it. If not then you can get it http://fallout.gamesas.com/eng/downloads/updates.html.

:ninja:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_quests

From the sound of your problem, your issue should have been fixed with the fallout 3 1.1 patch, but we are up to 1.7 http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/962337-fallout-3-updates/.

[edit to add] Ninja-ed by Psymon

cool thanks you two and i came here because i was hoping to find a few cheat sheets the modders might have, the wiki is killing me . thanks again I thought the nexus was the place for installing mods? dang i messed up again it seems

EDIT yes i have GOTY so im all good then on the patches then , cool

ya ive been to the techical issues section with very littel help at all . i just wanted to ask a modder that was familure using the console SO is the syntax in Fo3 the same for compleating a quest as it is in FNV right?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_console_commands

nice thanks sparkle :icecream:

now i remember whey i never finished this game . becaause of having to fix the game myself. go figure i could of swore i was paying for a working product. Ok sparkle the syntax examples help alot now the only thing i need now i think is a list of the BASE id' s And you know what i never tried using the code to turn on light bright i wonder if that will work?

EDIT nope light bright diddnt work

So what is it your trying to fix? Is it companions won't follow you?

You're not using mods but likely the answers you will get here are to use a companion mod ... Companion Share and Recruit is good, but does not cover vanilla companions that I'm aware of.

Please describe the issue - if it is the companion think I may be able to link you to mods that address it. Or whatever it is. Broken steel happens in the wasteland mostly.

DAMMIT can someone please help this fool ? Can someone show me the exact code i need to input into the consol to fool it into thinking the game is done . i tried to finish the quest" reteieving the garden of eden" but now it just says excape vault 87. and i cant find any code to get by this spot. And i think its whats causing my game to mess up. with the flash bang thing

Well according to http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=637 (a valuable tool that allows you to look at the contents of plugins in a way more user friendly than the GECK is at times): I see that set stage 30 is escape from 187 while set stage 200 is complete quest ... kind of a large jump in numbers. Try that.

Though to be honest - it sounds like you are having other issues more technical in nature.

Have you seen the http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3808?

cool thank you so much. because im thinking that flash bang might be whats causing the black screen . So i would like to avoid it if possible
thank you very much

no not really its just that black screen after waking up is the only thing all DLC works fine and everything. i never had any save game issues either. but i have managed to make it all the way out of raven rock by just useing my hud to meet fawks again . and when the bombs started going off i could actually see a little bit but only when they blew up then it went dark again . thats why i was saying its like the game changed my brightness or gamma some how and turned it way down .

whats up with the unofficial patches? And that FOedit thing looks like it can be handy thanks

What flash bang? Describe it.

Is it a loud booming noise like an explosion going off in the distance or nearby? Does it repeat? What flash?

Are you sure you are not using mods - not even replacers for textures?

Yes edit is probably the main essential tool after the GECK.

The unofficial patches for Oblivion are considered essential and do fix many things that the developers stopped looking at long ago - same author made the F3 one. Some consider it less essential for F3 ... and I've heard some say the broken steel plugin can even cause issues. But I've not heard anything really negative about the main F3 unofficial patch. I've played with it installed since it came out.

when your walking out of vault 87 with the geck there is that flash bang and you wake up at raven rock.
well it was able to get the game to say completed for excape from vault 87 finally . but I just knew i was going to have to enter every quest complete code till the end of the game . i hoped i could just enter the last one to make the game think its over. all this just to play broken steel. sigh

the game just does not want me to skip that cut scene . but after it plays and i wake up at raven rock thats when the screen is black

I've no idea what to tell you.

If you save and the reload is it the same?

im not sure if i have ever saved and reloaded . ill try it