[Deon Knight]

Okay, my new Qosmio more than meets the standard for this game, no problem there. I have an NVidia GeForce 460m GPU withj 1.5 GB of VRam. The problem is that I am running WinBlows7 and apparemntly the game is not supported for my OS...fun, fun fun!

I initially had these problems when I installed and uninstalled the game several times over the last few days. But it would actually freeze in the opening cut-scene as the mother was giving birth, a little before, or a little after. When it froze, however, it would completely lock up my PC and I would have to pull a CTRL-ALT-DEL and close Fallout 3 in the task manager. I have tried running this in Vista Compatibility mode (Service Pack 2) as well as installing patch 1.7.A very odd thing happened when I installed the patch: The game would start by itself while the patch was installing. Weird, I know. I called Tech support and was told that they cannot guarantee that they can get the game working in Win7, and I told them that I would try applying thr patch and see if that helps before calling back, which I will do tomorrow if I cannot get this solved.

I also am pretty certain I upgraded upgraded to the latest version of DirectX 9 even though I already have DirectX 11 installed. If I remember correctly, I had to do this to get another older game working.

Anyway, since doing all of those things, I have been able to get past the introductory cut-scene and into the point where your character is at her/his 10 year old birthday party. Then again, I may have gotten locky, because I had to keep reloading my saves with "Continue" and praying I couldd get past the next checkpoint before another crash freezes everything up. The farthest I have beemn able to get is where her Dad gives her a BB Gun and she shoots a giant roach, but "Continue" only seems to keep brining me back to the beginning of this annoying birthday party.

Any suggestions from you Fallout Guru's?

[SEXY QUEEN]

Okay, my new Qosmio more than meets the standard for this game, no problem there. I have an NVidia GeForce 460m GPU withj 1.5 GB of VRam. The problem is that I am running WinBlows7 and apparemntly the game is not supported for my OS...fun, fun fun!

I initially had these problems when I installed and uninstalled the game several times over the last few days. But it would actually freeze in the opening cut-scene as the mother was giving birth, a little before, or a little after. When it froze, however, it would completely lock up my PC and I would have to pull a CTRL-ALT-DEL and close Fallout 3 in the task manager. I have tried running this in Vista Compatibility mode (Service Pack 2) as well as installing patch 1.7.A very odd thing happened when I installed the patch: The game would start by itself while the patch was installing. Weird, I know. I called Tech support and was told that they cannot guarantee that they can get the game working in Win7, and I told them that I would try applying thr patch and see if that helps before calling back, which I will do tomorrow if I cannot get this solved.

I also am pretty certain I upgraded upgraded to the latest version of DirectX 9 even though I already have DirectX 11 installed. If I remember correctly, I had to do this to get another older game working.

Anyway, since doing all of those things, I have been able to get past the introductory cut-scene and into the point where your character is at her/his 10 year old birthday party. Then again, I may have gotten locky, because I had to keep reloading my saves with "Continue" and praying I couldd get past the next checkpoint before another crash freezes everything up. The farthest I have beemn able to get is where her Dad gives her a BB Gun and she shoots a giant roach, but "Continue" only seems to keep brining me back to the beginning of this annoying birthday party.

Any suggestions from you Fallout Guru's?

Look like I have too the same problem than you do. I'm still waiting an answers.

Why would they release a game not compatibly on windows 7 ?

That's a shame,

it's the only game that I have that is not windows 7 compatible. I've been going throught the game thought, as I'm still able to play. I just need to save often cause the game randomy crash from time to time, usually crash after 1 hours or so of gaming. Sometimes takes longer, and in some occasion it took only 30 minutes, but only couple time.

Freeze/Crash/Lockup ''Fallout 3 has stopped working'' Event log quote it as application failure.

[Sian Ennis]

This is exactly the same problem as me. I came here because I'm having this problem, only to realize that it was in the top 3 posts on this forum.

I 3rd this post. While my computer is not as good as the OP, I have nvidia 9600 GT, 4 gigs of ram and a quadcore 2.4ghz - definitely a good enough computer to run this game at nice settings. The performance is NOT the problem - it's the freezing and having to ctrl-alt-delete my way out of it. It's exactly the same.

I can play for maybe 5... perhaps 15 minutes tops, and then it freezes. It's impossible to enjoy this game under such conditions.

I'm using windows 7 64-bit. Maybe 64-bit OS has something to do with it? I have no idea.

I hope there's a solution because I beat the game, but I never got a chance to do the dlc I downloaded. I upgraded from XP to 7 in the interim so I got the pitt, point lookout and mothership zeta still to complete.

[BlackaneseB]

Guys, I found a solution at another forum. I am guessing that your PC's all have foud (quad) cores, right? The problems is that Fallout is getting confused buy four cores in WinBlows 7, for reasons bassing understanding. All you have to do is to tell the game only to look at two of your CPU's cores.


The way you do that is as follows:

Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3
Find the line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add another line after it and insert:

iNumHWThreads=2

This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze.


After I did this, my game ran for hours no problem. OHh, and a "Duh!" moment coming up: Make certain that you save the edited file when you are done.

[Miss Hayley]

I already did that core limiting trick. It does not work.

[Charlie Sarson]

I already did that core limiting trick. It does not work.

I did this multi-core fix. It did help stabilize the game. However this has not completely eliminated the random freeze/lock up/crash. In my case they tend to come from 30 minutes to 2 hours in game. It is boring as hell. I have to save the game alot.

I'm still having fun playing the game, but it svck that Bethesda didnt tried to fix anything.



Someone please, I've also pother another post explaining my problem, we need a solution. The third party tweaking guide online isnt helping at all on this matter, nor are any post on this forum since most of the fix I have tried gave no result.

[Hannah Whitlock]

I have just bought this game from Steam, GOTY Edition for ￡29.99. I am running:

Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Intel i5 M520 2.40GHz
4GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 1GHz

I am getting this same crash, error code 1002 in Event Manager.

Getting really pissed off with this now! Crashed once before birth, at naming, in the pen, at the Birthday party......................etc etc..............

I would really like a solution from gamesas or my money back to be honest!