any good mods for increasing RAM for faster play? I have to play on COMPLETE minimum requirements so anything that could help would help. :brokencomputer:

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8886 (http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1069833-relz-fallout-stutter-remover/page__hl__stutter) may help. It is an offshoot of http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160496-relz-oblivion-stutter-remover-osr/ that SkyRanger-1 made for Oblivion. OSR is critical for a heavily modded OB and it's development is ongoing, however, most people don't see that much improvement with FSR, for a number of reasons such as: FO3 is better codded in the areas that FSR seeks to improve, FO3 has fewer mods. Hence the FSR thread has become somewhat buried...

It's worth a shot trying FSR though. Proper use of it requires that you read the readme and even go through the related threads because it's configuration depends on your comp.

There may be some other things you could do... maybe search the Nexus for things like "simple shaders" or "reduced textures".

Best to describe the components that make up your comp for more help- processor, graphics card, amount of ram, etc.

thanks

Make sure you have the games graphics set to run by the Nvidia control panel. Keep vertical sync turned on (option in the game launcher) and keep triple buffering on as well. Set pre-rendered frames to 0 unless you have either a very good cpu or a very bad Gpu. Set anti-aliasing to "enhance 3d application settings"

Then get fallout stutter remover.

Also one of the most important things for you to do is set your Water graphics down to as low as they can go. Water processing happens whether you are near water or not and it takes up a huge chunk of FPS.

Here's a link to http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12310, which may help a bit. I also found http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6836 and http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=7658, which are mods that remove the normal maps from the game's meshes, one of these links handles Fallout 3 and the other takes care of the DLCs.

You could overclock your RAM and CPU. That will help. CPU overclocking is especially helpful; RAM overclocking, not so much. But, the benefits are there, you just won't notice them from RAM overclocking like you would from CPU overclocking.

yes but overclocking can damage your components, so use it as a last resort.

Yes, overclocking can damage your components, if you have absolutely no idea what you are doing. Read about it if you've never overclocked before. There are a lot of good tutorials out there. As long as you are cautious about overclocking, you have nothing to worry about, and can reap the benefits of faster components without having to pay for it.

I second that. I'm tired of people afraid of overclocking, and standing in front of a microwave.