Hi, so I have just purchsed Fallout 3 GOTY and installed it today. I noticed immediately that something wasn't right when it auto-detected my settings and recommended I play on low quality.

I have only just started PC gaming so I'm still very new to a lot of things, but I know I can handle games like Battlefield and Metro 2033 on high (And Oblivion with an ultra-realism texture pack) and have no problems running them at all, so I don't see why I couldn't handle Fallout 3 on at least medium.

Then, once I hit 'New' on the menu, I start the intro cut scene, which runs fine, then the Birthing scene starts. At some point during that (seems random) the beeping continues, but no one talks, and nothing seems to happen (Have waited up to 5 minutes before closing and retrying).


I bought the game on disc, which was brand new, so it's not a digital download.

I have Radeon HD 6870 GPU and intel i3 2100 @ 3.1Mhz CPU.
I am also running Windows 7 premium x64 and have 8gb of RAM.


-Karu

The game is older than the video card is, and the only "6800" in its database is a Geforce from seven years ago, that amounts to a bare minimum by today. It will run with any quality setting you choose, once you eliminate whatever conflict is causing the game to terminate improperly. You'll need to provide far more information before any answers in that regard are possible, however.

The most common being to edit the ini so the game runs on 2 cores.
Check the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1348070-windows7-quad-core-fixes/ if you have more than 2 cores

I recomend methodically applying fixes rather that willy nilly slapping them on.

And also a disk clean/defrag with this game before anything.

So recomending complete uninstall , diskclean/defrag ... and possibly install outside the x86 programfiles. Then reaproach applyng fixes ... with the limiting cores as the first.

PS: If you dont use "Microsoft Games for Windows Live" on anything else. Delete that folder after your uninstall.
Should be right off of C:\