I quit playing Fallout 3 in anger after the 1.1 patch broke vats percentages and made vats lag like a mofo.

Customer complaints were ignored and hissed at for quite some time, so I boycotted gamesas.

A friend gifted me F3 GOTY on steam, so I figured i'd load up the patches, including the Unofficial F3 patch, and give it a try.

Somebody fixed vats. The percentages are no longer stupid and insane.

Was this a gamesas fix or is it in the unofficial patch? I want to know who gets the credit. If gamesas did it, I'll unboycott em.

The VATS percentages were hardcoded, and that was something the UOP couldn't touch since the GECK cannot access the harcoded stuff.

The VATS percentages were fixed for some as of the 1.5 patch with noticeable improvements for others with each successive patch.

edit: As for lag, the patches fixed some of that for some. Others found significant improvements after a fresh install, driver updates or even a good clean of their system.


I myself actually had worse VATS lag BEFORE the 1.1 patch. Go figure. :shrug:

Awesome, thank you. Yeah, the lag is cured if I turn of antialiasing, but it used to be fine with it on. No problem now though, I turned up the resolution instead.

But I am so glad that gamesas is the one responsible for the vats percentage fix, now I can allow myself to buy New Vegas this fall...