Can a heavily modded fallout 3 cause BSOD

[nckthebeast]

Simply wondering if a 50-60+ mods running in fallout 3 could cause a BSOD or would the game just crash?

[ologiic]

I could see both happening. If the GPU is trying to handle too much it could BSOD/crash the game.

[upliftsleet1974]

Um it could...What did the BSOD say?

Has it happened once or a few times?

[Caironc]

Anything can cause a game to BSOD. I've had Minecraft with a shaders pack BSOD my computers. Usually the game will just crash but with every mod you add you are causing a risk of instability. If you get a blue screen then just find the mod doing and take it out, it shouldnt be a problem.

[thekeemo]

literally anything can cause a BSOD

[Fulgrim]

Never had a mod cause a BSOD, just a CTD/freeze.

And i've had over 200 mods installed on Skyrim at a single given time.

 

If you do BSOD, it'll likely be a memory problem, or something else causing it.

[nckthebeast]

Its only happened once and it was while I was playing fallout 3 and watching a TV show on Netflix

[typographie]

Simply wondering if a 50-60+ mods running in fallout 3 could cause a BSOD or would the game just crash?

 

I doubt there's a "magic number" of mods that will crash the game. But if there's an error, improper installation, incompatibility, or corrupted file somewhere, absolutely. When you're using 50-60 mods, there's a lot of chances for that stuff to happen.

[Laurysss]

The mods dont bsod they crash the game. But if you run a game/benchmark with oc'ed gpu,cpu or whatever than it can. Thats how you find if your oc is stable.