Has anyone else noticed that if you play fallout for longer periods of time the loading screens start to become longer then they usually were. Is there a way to stop this from happening? I am on 360.

Not really no, I had this as well so I installed the game onto the hard drive(as suggested by one of the devs)and it seemed to work at first but if I was playing for more then 2 hours at a time the loading screens started taking ages again, eventually just totally locking up which resulted in me having to switch off my console, I'm on Xbox BTW. Hopefully these issues will be addressed in the upcoming patch although I doubt it.

Yes, installing to the Hard Drive works at first, but after a while, I wait long times to load. (I am on 360 by the way) :spotted owl:

Yep, longer play time = longer loads on 360. Exiting to the dashboard then re-entering the game fixes it, though not as well if the console has been on for a long time. Annoying, but worth it compared to 2mins of waiting every time you open a door.

The save games get bigger the longer you play; and areas that you have visited previously, must load the differences when you return.
(though some things fade, and it all resets after 3 days I think).

Has anyone tried dropping inventory items all around, leaving and returning, to see if the load times are affected?

Load times take longer the more you effect the game world. It has to load all of the physics controlled objects you have influenced (ragdolls, debris, items). So theres really no way to stop it (i don't think).

This appears to be a console thing. i have never waited longer than about 10 seconds. It is very unusual for the load screen slide to even change.

Hopefully they get this fixed by the time Fallout: Hollywood gets released.

that is all.

It's the same for the PC version. Saves are directly proportional with loading time. My longest loading period on PC in 200 hours of gameplay was about 30 or 45 seconds in comparison to one or two seconds in the beginning of the game.

Yes. I have this happen to me nearly every time I play it for a long period of time. I've found that either simply booting to the dashboard or just restarting the 360 helps. I've noticed that if I don't do either of those little fixes and just ignore and keep playing, it'll end up freezing.

Same thing on the PC, its due to some kind of memory leak and the only answer is to close the program out and restart it.... then it loads up as fast as ever. Not sure if the latest patch fixed it, because I have not played it much.

You mean the stammering/lockingup while loading? Well I concur. Also happens to PC version once in a while. When it does I Ctrl alt delete my way out of it and restart like you said.

All i can say is your 360 needs a break. Needs sleep.

I made it a habit while playing this game to take breaks every hour or two (or when i got tired of it taking 15 minutes just to go from the surface to the bottom of the BoS bunker)...my bloody xbox kept getting hot enough to cook an egg. Finally cranked the air conditioner down to 55, threw on a coat and I swear the levels were loading faster...or maybe it was just a delusion brought on by a mild case of hypothermia :laugh: