Gary
Author Comments aka Comic News
Fallout no longer crashes!
Finally it works! It works! I played it 1.5 hours straight without any crashes! Oh what a momentous day, I will always remember this day! Oh yeah, and there was an election.
How I got fallout 3 to stop crashing.
As I posted in the following two forums:
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=902496
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=893458&st=160&start=160
I tried all of below, before turning on anti-aliasing, I originally had it off for performance reasons, thinking I had to, but I turned it on to test, and I just ran 1.5 hours straight, no crash.
these are the other things I tried:
killed avg software processes and all messaging clients
-no luck
avg running from this point on
changed to low res
-no luck
tried changing the controls to default (I've only changed invert mouse to on)
-no luck
uninstalled my codec packs (K-Lite, XP complete) to remove ffdshow
-looked like it worked for a while, but in the end, no luck
uninstaled acholhol 44%
-no luck
tried connecting to the internet directly through the dsl modem instead of through the server
-no luck
direct internet connection from this point on
tried running fallout3.exe
-no luck, a little more stable though, 3 minutes instead of 30 seconds
using fallout3.exe from this point on
switched to only 1 enabled network connection
-no luck
only one network connection from this point on
tried not using usb headphones
-no luck
using built in laptop speakers from this point on
changed realtek to stereo
-no luck
tried it in compatability mode (win2000)
-no luck, changed it back
changed the ini file for the shadow mem
-no luck
-added in the compatability mode fix
-no luck, no locked in stead of crashed
-tried each compatability mode
-no luck
rolled back the ini
-tried each compatability mode
-no luck
rolled back compatability mode
installed K-Lite
-no luck
-added in the compatability mode fix
-no luck, no locked in stead of crashed
-tried each compatability mode
-no luck
updated directx
-no luck
rebooted after directx update
-no luck
applying XP service pack 3
-no luck
turned on antialiasing 2
-Seems to be working.
Changed back to multiple network connections, usb headphones, running from the short cut.
-still seems to be working.
Good old days
My words of wisdom for the day, "The good olds days really weren't that good. That's why we try to evolve."
Also, I found out today that there is an hour in the morning that I really don't want to hear massive negativity. I found this out as a bus driver and bus patrons started complaining about the world, at 7am. As far as I'm concerned, the world isn't completely there yet that early, so stop picking on it.
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