This may be because i have windows 7, but when i install fallout 3 and then run it. It works. BUT!
Then when it says there is a an update for Live and I install it, the game crashes on restart. After that I will click run and it will black out the screen. Then the windows little circle shaped mouse loading icon thingy appears and the game crashes. It says that the game has stopped working. I can't figure out what is doing this.
Anyone that can give me assitance would be awesome
Patch it manually.
Live update: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128962
Game update: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/updates.html
Thank you for the help, however the same error occurs. Any other advice?
Could you provide the error it is giving? Or if it is not displaying an error could you provide the event log info?
for me I started getting crashes just a couple of weeks ago, I had to edit the fallout.ini file to set the game to run off of only to cores of my quad core CPU.
I have no idea why this would be an issue, but it worked.
Here's what I did:
The game engine has some issues with processors that have more than 2 cores. You can force the game to only use two of them and it will stop the freezing. I haven't had it freeze once since I did this several days ago.
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.
Obviously if you have a single core or dual core this will not help.
Other than that the logs GFWLMod asked for would be helpful, or any error messages you get upon crashing.
OK first of all Fallout 3 is buggy and crashes a lot here are some things that have helped others
Game Crashes upon Exit
Sometimes users will state that Fallout 3 will Crash/Stop Responding upon exit. A possible solution is to go in to the Options of the Fallout 3 Launcher.
the error it specifically gives me says:
Fallout 3 has experienced a problem and needs to cloase. Windows is searching for solutions, check back later for solutions
GFWLMod: Could you provide the error it is giving? Or if it is not displaying an error could you provide the event log info?
This
How to view and manage event logs in event viewer.
@MASTER99X
Have you tried running the game in windowed mode as I have suggested?
hey I just tried running in it in a windowed mode and it worked! Thanks for the help
