Hi all,
I've tried to spot other topics where people have the same problem but none I could find so here I go.
I just purchased GotY edition, installed and started it up.
Click new game, eventually baby gets borne and at the 2nd beep of the heart rate monitoring machine it all comes to a standstill.

What's up? The baby to ugly?

Jokes aside I really need some help cause I've been looking forward to this epic game in a long while now.

My pc specs are:

Intel i3 processor 330M (2,13GHZ, 3MB L3 Cache)
ATI HD 5650
4GB Memory


The game chose to set settings to High at startup so my graphics card shouldn't be the problem.

Any suggestions or good advice?

Open up the .ini file located in My Documents>My Games>Fallout 3. *Do not alter the one in the actual game directory labeled Fallout_Default_ini*
In the FALLOUT.ini find the line

bUseThreadedAI=0
change the 0 to a 1

then below it add the line

iNumHWThreads=2

awesome, that worked.

Thanks alot!

Wow, I never thought someone would have the same problem as me and using the same graphics card. What is really amazing is that someone knew how to fix this. I have been trying to fix this for the past week. Thanks for the help.