So I'm a PS3 kid but not because of any brand loyalty per se. Just seemed like the best deal at the time.

QUESTION

Is there any substance to these claims that FO3 ran better on XBOX than PS3? Stability-wise, frame-rate, etc

Who's logged serious hours on both and can make an honest comparison?

Thank you for your time :rock:

honestly in my unbiased opinion it runs better on the 360.

at first there is no diffrence, but if you download any of the dlc then the game will run suprisingly slow at some times.

i have it on the ps3 and i must say fallout 360>fallout ps3.

but its not to bad

i used to play on the 360 untill it got red ringed.

so i have experience with both.

hopefully new vegas will run better on the ps3, and the dlc will be released at the same time

My personal opinion 360 & PS3 run Fallout 3 & Oblivion like a pile of dog sh!t.

Both those games just run 5x better on a decent PC and 10x better on a nice PC. There is only graphic differences with comparing PS3 & 360 most the time, the performance difference in games with both console's is so small it's not worth the comparison.

Thanks boss! That makes sense.

Hopefully (and likely) New Vegas will be better-optimized for the different platforms.

Not that it matters, I'd probably play this game with constant freezing and crashing :fallout:

I haven't experienced F3 on 360.... but I can confirm what SpEcTrE said about the PS3 and framerates during the DLC. It was painfully slow at certain times.

Is that what I asked? No.

Not all of us can afford to drop several grand on a gaming rig.
I already know I'd be gaming on PC if I won the lottery, but thanks anyway!

Several grand you could have more then one PC that run's games a lot better then 360 & PS3 . . . And some.

Dude, there's another thread for PC versus console, or maybe you'd like to discuss personal finance?

You need to drop several grand for a proper gaming rig including monitor and sound system and software, etc.

Consoles are more accessible money-wise, which is why I'm a console gamer these days.

From my -short- personal experience, 360 version is smoother and more stable than the PS3 version. But Obsidian said they're working to equalize them.

edit to above: Sorry for off-topic but learn to combodeal.

Thats highly untrue, my original PC build cost $800 that ran the game fine and other games too. I only dropped more money in here because it needs to do a lot more then just games.

On topic: Those who visit the hardware threads see a lot less issues with the 360 version then the PS3 version of FO3.

Edit-Grammatical error.

Well, maybe it's american recession prices or something.

Where I come from, a knowledgeable friend put together his set-up for $1500, and he trawls online for the best deals on different pieces of hardware and assembles them himself.

Just what is a Fallout 3 related topic like this doing on the New Vegas forum?

I'm assuming that since it's the same engine for NV, if there's a noticeable performance gap between platforms ...

I have both consoles I rinsed FO3 on the xbox and recently got a PS3 thinking it would do a better job than the 360, it didn't! The PS3 loaded things a bit quicker but it flopped badly while trying to play FO3, I expected better from the PS3, I actually stopped playing it and I would never waste my time playing FO3 on a PS3, the xbox had its problems but I found the PS3 slightly worse for FO3, and I so wanted it to handle better than the xbox. Given the choice I vote 360 for FO3

Something like that...
Uhh anyways, the post doesn't even once mention New Vegas, I'd think the Fallout 3 forums would be where it's at for this one, no?

Now I'm going to try and post something on-topic

I play on the 360, and whenever I play without DLC, it runs very smooth, I gotta say. However, when I enable my DLC it just becomes really laggy and decides to randomly freeze, which is extremely annoying. This might be because of my disc though, not the actual Xbox. Then again, when it plays fine without DLC, why does it do this?
Is there some sort of bug in some of the DLC that creates lag or something? Hope it's not like that in NV...

Looking at it now though, this is sounding like it could be a topic of its own, in the Fo3 forums that is. Urgh, I svck at making posts :banghead:

I played it on my xbox 360
and the entire time I played it I only had 2 glitches ruin my gameplay
but they weren't that bad
just a simple reload

Yes well hes asking about xbox compared to ps3 not hey wacko with to much money how much money does it take to get to the radiation filled center of a fallout game? $100 $200 $1500.

My opinion is that the Xbox runs it better and there are several things which add benefits to the xbox Fallout players.

Here's the list of good things Xbox Players had during their time playing Fallout 3

1. The Game runs smoother.
2. Not as much screen lag.
3. First to have DLC.
4. If we have an incident like we did when Point lookout came out you might get the DLC a day early if you buy a DLC token. However you will get a strike on ur record if you advertise it, like me. . .
5. If you have any idea of what ur doing or you buy an Xbox Dev kit or mod ur xbox, which is technically not against the rules unless you sell the xbox or you sell anything you were able to modify by using it. Free doesn't count as selling FYI. Getting to the point you can play Moded stuff on ur xbox with the right tools and know-how.
6. Sometimes Xbox players get updates first, if not PC users will get the Patch and then Xbox and then PS3 several weeks to a month later.
7. Xbox live party chat is an excellent way to talk to friends while playing Fallout, especially if you're all playing Fallout together.
8. Usually when DLC is released people who play on the pc have a lot of trouble downloading it. This is also true for Xbox players but signing out of your main account and back in with a different account you will be able to download it on the other account, I still have no idea why this happens.

Ok im done thx for readin come again plox.

Consider this me, officially mentioning NEW VEGAS *taps the mic* repeat FALLOUT NEW VEGAS everyone!

I'm asking this because I'm excited about playing new vegas, which isn't released yet, as you all know, so I'm reduced to asking bout the old game.

I sincerely apologize for any further breaches of protocol, feel free to shoot and/or sue me. :rolleyes:

and thanks to the folks who answered!

It seems like the PS3 port of Fallout 3 wasn't optimized for the PS3's architecture very well. In my experience it runs better on the 360. I've only played it on a friend's PS3 (and my 360), but it "felt" a bit less smooth and the textures looked chunkier than the 360 version.


Nah, I've been building PCs for going on 18 years. $1500 self-built, even with a monitor, is going to get you a near top-of-the-line PC, which is way, WAY more than you need to run Fallout 3 really well. $600 + $200 for a decent monitor will get you a PC that will run circles around current-gen consoles. No, those aren't recession prices. That said, you could exclude the price of the monitor and hook it up to your digital TV if you have one. I mean, we don't include the price of the TV or extra console accessories when we talk about the price of our consoles, do we?

Outside of the OS (~$100 unless you already have one that you can transfer or are willing to run Linux) just about any other software you'd need can be had in some legally-free flavor. Thousands of dollars being a requirement for a gaming PC, especially a self-built one, is a pretty large exaggeration.

I have about 1000+ hours on the 360 FO3 GOTY
About 500+ hours on the PS3 FO3.

Graphics: Both versions look and play virtually identical. On HDTV, both look great, even though both have jagged edges/aliased, both have low res textures/muddiness up close. Both have some pop in in the distance.

Glitches/Bugs: Both versions have their share of bugs. 360's biggest bug seems to be the massive pillars of stuff sticking out of the ground, the PS3 doesn't seem to have these, but has some issues in the file sizes of each save get gigantic, at level 20, I have it at 9190 MB or so. The 360, I think only gets to 5500 MB or so. Bugs on both are about 1 every 5 hours of gameplay, 1 crash every 10 hours constant play.

Gameplay: Both play identical.

Sound: 360 wins here. PS3 seems to not make SFX at certain times for the grocery carriages, when you hit them, but only once in awhile. This is true for some other sounds too, like explosions.

Quests: Both function as expected
DLC: It's said that DLC in FO3 for the PS3 works fine early on, but at level 20 and up, starts to crash if you try to complete all five DLCs. Said to be functional with 3 DLCs, the other 2 for another character or save file.

Saving: 360 rules in this. PS3 saves are way too big at level 20. The game functions fine even so.

Hardware: My 360 burned 3 Red Rings for the final time before I gave up on the system entirely. Fallout 3 was great on it, till the hardware failed. PS3, flawless so far. The new 360 "Slim" just released is said to be much better.

Fallout New Vegas should be much better on both systems hopefully with their experience.

It's not just a question of optimization; the PS3 only has half the GPU memory that the 360 has, and 256MB is really not enough for modern games.

Therefore, it's a limitation that Obsidian will most likely not be able to get around.

It's hard to say without a peek into the game code. :shrug: Some games do a better job dealing with textures with sparse texture memory than other games. There are a lot of variables involved. Sure, if you're using the same methodologies for creating, caching, and loading textures the hardware with more texture memory is (probably) going to do a better job. That doesn't mean that there aren't possible workarounds to make things look nicer on the hardware with less texture memory. In the case of Fallout 3 it seemed like they dealt with it by using lower-res textures (of course, I'm just guessing), but that isn't always the only recourse. Certainly the game engine plays a role here as well...who knows how much flexibility they had in that area?