Fallout 3 Has Stopped working?

[bob7up]

Originally Posted by Noob_

It was meant for NicholasDM.

Oh, sorry.

[Noob_]

"Souzouteki: Thanks mate, Fallout was crashing as soon as I clicked "Play" in the launcher, giving me the message "Fallout 3 has stopped working."

I deleted the files in the \My Games\Fallout 3 folder (but kept the Saves folder) and went ahead to launch the game - it worked.

So I'm bumping this post for others having this problem."




I tried this it worked for me as well. Try it.

[NicholasDM]

Originally Posted by GRS9

NicholasDM in a nutshell:

"I'm going to act really technical, but not actually post any information, so I'll look smart..."

"And I'll probably reply to any reaction posts by using all kinds of terms to make me look smart!"

Whatever makes you feel important about yourself.

[bob7up]

Originally Posted by NicholasDM

Unfortunately I can't help. I'd say that when you overclock a computer so much and put excessive amounts of memory in it beyond 4Gig (especially a largely wasted 16Gig), and then on top of all that decide to go to Windows 64bit, all bets are off and you accept the risk that stuff may not work. It is also entirely possible that you've damaged your hardware with any tweaking you've done.

Run your CPU and/or video card back down to stock speeds, ditch the extra unused 12Gig of ram (even in A/V editing 1080P content I never reach 4Gig of used memory. Nor when compiling C++ code, Gaming, or surfing porn), and install 7 Professional 32bit (unless you really need those 2 extra features that "Ultimate" gives you... yeah, you pay all that money for 2 features; bitlocker (useless) and additional languages).

Good luck.

16GB is fine, why would I get rid of the extra 12GB of RAM and run my 4GB in single channel for less performance?

[coldroll]

Because this guy is computer illiterate and is obviously a troll that thinks he's in 2006.

[Kravlin]

Fallout 3 doesn't like multiple monitors. If you have this issue with several monitors, yanking one out might fix it (it did for me). This tends to happen with a lot of games. Especially older ones before dual screens became popular. It works fine with 16 gb of ram. Not to mention that gamebrio is locked into 2 gigs of ram by default even in skyrim, so whether you have 3 or 7 or even 16 gigs of ram (yes, some of those amounts would take some serious work to achieve) that's not going to affect it. And windows 7 64-bit has a 32-bit compatability layer that runs 32 bit programs in a 32 bit environment. It's been around since Vista. It's pretty much exactly like running the program in a 32-bit version of 7.

EDIT: Using windowed mode seems to work too. And that works with multiple monitors. You can change this outside the game in the splash screen.

NicolasDM is full of ♥♥♥♥. He's a Luddite who thinks he understands computers. Bitlocker isn't really useful for the average consumer because it's meant for encrypting business level laptops.