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As much as you are right, I don't want bethesda to close this thread. Thank you

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Thanks!

PS3 40GB
Purchased FO3 27/12/08
Installed and played with patch first instance.
This is my first time playing
Now around 30hrs gameplay


Hi guys.

Been playing Fallout with no problems what so ever then bamo, my game starts freezing all the time. I'd just got to the part were I meet Joseph MacCready and he stops me from entering. He wants me to go do a side mission called, 'Rescue from Paradise'

So as I was running low on supplies I decided to fast track to Rivet City and do some shopping. I arrived at Rivet City no probs, stocked up and tried to leave. Every time I click on the door to leave it freezes.

I have tried various work arounds posted on this site and others, nothing fixes the issue.

Shame really, was a good laugh up until now.

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately it didn't work

I ran into a weird glitch near the Farragut West Metro Station. There were a group of Outcasts surrounding and attacking a stationary group of Raiders. The Raiders were semi-frozen and were apparently immune to the attacks (two with Automatic Rifles and one with a Flame Thrower). I emptied several clips of ammo, both VATS and regular FPS targeting from my Chinese AR, to no avail. I then went into unarmed mode and started punching them. One or more of the raiders switched to fighting stance but remained stationary. They weren't taking any damage from the normal punches. The critical hits however did seem to bring down their health. I was in the line of crossfire from the outcasts that continued to attack, but for some reason I wasn't taking any damage either.

Eventually each of the raiders fell to the critical hits from the unarmed attacks, but their bodies disappeared ans their weapons were hovering in the air from their previously holstered positions and could not be picked up. Their bodies, weirdly enough were several paces away in this weird, upright crucifixion position. I could not loot or move those bodies however. But yeah, that's one of the weirdest glitches I ran into.

I've encountered several problems. I'll list them all in hopes that it sheds some light on the bigger problem. I will put them in order as I encountered them during play sessions. Some are not always present.

Fallen enemies will disappear. When they fall dead, their bodies will just disappear. I have no idea where they go.

While sneaking through the wasteland, I will get a detected or caution sign. That's when I'll stop and look for what is around. Sometimes I will never find anything and just assume they are just spotting me from an elevated position. Once I actually found a radscorpion trapped halfway into the landscape of the waste. Only his stinger and an occasional glimpse of his body as he moved back and forth trapped in the ground.

Stuff off the floor, random debris, will be floating off the ground at about head level.

Enemies will get stuck in strange animation loops. A Murluk looked like it got struck with a beam of light from the sky and started going through every animation frame available to him at a very high rate. I just played that one off as being smited by a diety.

A raider that I hit with a Fat Man flew around in the air until I left the area. He could have stayed there forever, but the game froze on me afterwards.

Stuttering frames and pauses as the game becomes non responsive.

Eventually these things will lead to a complete freeze of the game. I will have to reboot the PS3 to recover.

Once I reload the game once, I returned to complete part of the wasteland survival guide quest. It was the history quest. I completed it fine and got the reward. I then picked up the library quest. When I returned with the library quest complete, the dialog was stuck on the history quest. I said every option but was unable to ever advance the dialog again.

I've created and deleted 6 characters so far. It's the only way I've found to continue playing the game. I'll play one character till it's no longer able to advance in the story then delete it and try to rush to that spot in the story with a new character. I've turned off event notification during play and still encounter these bugs. When I go outside to smoke, I pause the game with the start button and don't spend a lot of time in the pipboy and I try to avoid using the VAT as much as possible. The only time I use the VAT is when being rushed with a melee fighter and then I will do the shotgun blast to the head. It's one of the things in the game that I find extremely enjoyable and will not cut back on.

You've made an enjoyable game. There is so much of the game that I really get into. I played Oblivion on the computer for months. I expected to do the same with Fallout 3. I just can't bring myself to go through Vault 101 one more time. I have not gotten a character to level 20 yet. Normally it will become unplayable before I reach that mark. I suspect that all these little glitches are combining to eat up the cycles of the processor.

I currently have no save files to offer. They have all been deleted out of disgust. I can play through the game one more time and try to get you a really good one if you would like.

Keerius

Weird. I'd love to have seen that just for comedy purposes. Shame Bethesda didn't use any of the PS3's additional features, can you imagine how useful screenshots would be for troubleshooting? It's possible on the PS3 and has been since SDK update 1.8 last summer, the feature was then activated for consumers with firmware update 2.50 but to date only a handful games like Battlefield: Bad Company and Little Big Planet are even using it.

Perhaps this something Bethesda could patch it into Fallout 3, it was patched into BF:BC along with some balance tweaks and extra maps. Despite how good it would be for us and how useful it would be for them though, I very much doubt any such effort will be put into expanding or improving Fallout 3 on the PS3 in any way shape or form.

On that note, if anybody wants a solid test run, go ahead and just for kicks do it without overwriting anything or using autosave. Turn off all auto save options and create a new save EVERY SINGLE time, do not and I repeat DO not overwrite. I'd like to see if anyone else has my good fortune and have the game work for them this way, my character is at level 20, and I'm halfway through the main quest and completed many side quests dozens of times.

I have to admit that's a great idea, now I wished I thought of it first, lol but yeah Bethesda should so patch that in and AA as well(come on It shouldn't be that hard to put AA in by now). So long as it won't cause more bugs anyway.

I tried this with my first play through after the patch when going for my trophies, it didn't make any difference whatsoever. For the most part the game doesn't start to fall apart until after 20 hours or so on average, with that in mind I believe the majority of reports that not overwriting/autosaving prevents freezing/frame rate issues to be mistaken.



I've been thinking about this and unfortunately patching in AA isn't an option, sure it could be done but if you think the frame rate drops low now you don't want to see how bad it will get with AA. Top priority should be to fix the memory leak so that whatever effect that is having on frame rate and overall performance can be corrected. If AA support was bolted onto the game as it stands right now the disc would serve much more use on your table as a beermat as it ever would in your PS3.


I would however like to suggest for a 1.20 patch, if such as thing exists for us, that VSync be either unlocked/optional or disabled altogether. Truth be told there are only a couple of scenes in the whole game where it is needed and all it is doing for the PS3 is keeping the frame rate down, it's a relatively simple fix that will work wonders in the short term, do this and eliminate the memory leak and we'll see frame rates comparable to those other PS3 titles, as Fallout 3 should have had from the beginning.

*shrug* Well if thats true for some or most I'm not sure what to say as I've been playing for 50+ hours this play through. I guess I should have elaborated on one thing, my solution does not completely prevent random freezing and lockups, but it has prevented game ending ones, as well as NPC glitches. In other words, my strategy has allowed me to play the game with only a FEW *random* I emphasize *random* crashes, which is much better than getting the awful game ending lockups like so many have suffered in Jefferson Memorial

Since my last post of starting a fresh new game, I had decided to give my old one another try. Oddly, I haven't had much trouble, actually made it to about 216 hours of play time in the game, up from about 190 when I gave up on it, without a single un-recoverable freeze. (some of these hours are from me not pausing the game when I quit playing for a while or left the room).
However, tonight while playing my original game, the PS3 restarted itself out of the blue. One second I was walking away from a dead Enclave soldier, the next second the screen goes black, the PS3 beeps and it restarts.
So, my question is, is this the game or the PS3? The PS3 is the 160gb bought in November, so it's not old. I also had only been playing about 1/2 hour when this happened, so I know it wasn't overheated. The game restarted fine, but I didn't play anymore, didn't want the PS3 to blow up next.

While trying to complete the "Rielly's Rangers" mission i found the protectron before the group. I took the Fission Battery then dropped it. Then they told me to go get it i went back and now its gone. And now im stuck in the Statesman hotel Can any one help me?