Hi,

Trying to play fallout 3 GOTY and I have a weird issue. Everytime I go into a room, within seconds it will freeze with the 'program has stopped responding' message. If i stay in the wastelands or any of the open plan areas of a DLC, or if its part of a main mission then i can play for hours without issue. Then as soon as I go into rooms, houses, motels any interior / internal location, seconds later it freezes (it changes, it can be 2 seconds, could be 60 seconds but it will freeze)?

I have tired the multi core fix but makes no difference what so ever.

Im using windows 7 64-bit
intel i7 2700K
8gb RAM
Geforce GTX580 in SLI

Any ideas on this?

no biggie tbh, I've ordered and waiting for New Vegas Ultimate edition so would of been nice to just try and get through this before i start that

I ... was .... having the same issue. My problem seemed to be whenever I went in or out (usually in) a cell or sometimes when the day changed from night to dawn, it would suddenly crash.

Just for testing - disable your shadows totally - see if you don't quit crashing when moving in and out of cells.
I still crash - but not nearly as much.

Thing was I *just* upgraded to an nVidiva GTX 550TI card- and had just cranked my options all to max, I wasn't crashing much at all before that. I didn't want to totally disable Shadows though, so I went with medium shadows and limited the number to two of them. Seems to help still.

Do you have any mods? Also, try cranking the graphics down to Ultra Low and see what happens. Then add back the eye candy until stability is not there any more.

Crank your settings back, I bet it gets more stable. The 550 can't run this game cranked all the way up.

Indeed, not stably at least

It seems to handle the processing ok, but ... hey it was a 'deal' for a newer card

But yes, it's more stable now that I backed some of the options down.