Fallout Trouble.

[HeyItsKorey]

Hello everyone,

 

So, I'm sure plenty people have heard of the fallout series games crashing. I have personal experience with this. I played Fallout NV for a while non-modded and modded. But a little while back I ran into a problem where I would try to start a new game or load a previous save, and the game just wasn't having it. I searched the web and ending up doing a fresh install and started from scratch. This did work the first time around. Months went on and I realized "Oh wow, I miss playing Fallout 3, I should probably pick that up on Steam. So I did. I was so excited to hit New Game and let the journey begin. Crash. "Hmmm... that's odd, lets try again maybe settings too high"? Crash. So I did my research and it turns out Fallout 3 and Windows 7 don't get along very well. Now I ventured all over the web to find out solutions to the problem, and there are so many to choose from and try, but for some odd reason none seemed to work for me. Go frustrated and a few months went by. Oh lets try playing Fallout NV. Crash on loading saved game. "Maybe the mods"? Checked load order everything seems fine. Try again. Crash. "Okay, lets start from scratch, lets remove the mods and try vanilla". Crash. Try a New Game. Crash "Uh- oh." I'm getting the same results as Fallout 3 now for NV as well. Now I'm researching again to see if I can find a solution. The solutions I've tried that I can remember are:

- 1.7 Patch (FO3)

- Removing mods and starting fresh

- Unofficial Fallout Patch

- The whole play without Windows Live (even though I don't think the Steam version uses it)

- Windowed mode

- Disabling AA and AF (there was even something with Nvidia settings)

- The multi-core CPU fix (something to do with a .dll file)

- Disabling .Net

- Renaming "Music" File

- Run as Admin

- Run in compatibility mode

- Disabling other monitor

- Editing .ini file

- Turn off all auto saves

- Turning of HDR

- Fresh install

This is all on the vanilla game, no mods installed. This was also all done over the course of a few months where I would try new things here and there. Now with the announcement of Fallout 4 I have been sucked again into trying to get these games to work.

There are a few changes from the previous months. I have...

- Switched to a new case

- New Motherboard

- New SSD for games

- New CPU

- I uninstalled steam and moved it to the new SSD as well as my Steam library, and Nexus Mod Manager. Now the drivers for everything are up to date, I'm running no mods at all, haven't even downloaded any yet. Still getting same issue. Fallout 3 crashes when clicking New Game and Fallout NV crashes instantly after beginning cut seen after getting shot. I'm not sure where to go from here, I though maybe some out there may have solution or an idea. 

PC Specs:

CPU: i7-4790K

Motherboard: Asus Z97 Pro

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz

GPU: Reference GTX 680

SSD for games: Samsung 840 Pro

Also I use a software called Display Fusion which lets you customize your desktop, as well as a software called f.lux which helps dim the screams during certain times to reduce eye strain. I have one monitor vertical and one horizontal, the horizontal being the one I use for gaming. I just don't see these causing a problem, but you never know.

 

Thank you for taking the time to read this, sorry for the short story of a post.

If you have any questions, I will be happy to try and answer them to the best of my ability.

 

[Munalos]

- 1.7 Patch (FO3)

- Removing mods and starting fresh

- Unofficial Fallout Patch

- The whole play without Windows Live (even though I don't think the Steam version uses it)

- Windowed mode

- Disabling AA and AF (there was even something with Nvidia settings)

- The multi-core CPU fix (something to do with a .dll file)

- Disabling .Net

- Renaming "Music" File

- Run as Admin

- Run in compatibility mode

- Disabling other monitor

- Editing .ini file

- Turn off all auto saves

- Turning of HDR

- Fresh install

 

Everything I was going to recommend you've already tried. I have windows 7 64 bit aswell, and it crashed on me quite a bit until I installed the 4gb patch, studder remover, and the unofficial fallout patch. Keep in mind this was ONLY for fallout 3, New vegas I never had problems with, maybe it's a driver issue with that card?

[HeyItsKorey]

I update my GPU drivers through GeForce Experience and it says everything is up to date, I also show nothing wrong with drivers in Driver Management. Fallout NV did work great besides that little hiccup, but that was fixed with fresh install at the time.

[BroProStudios]

Hi there, I had the same program with  my fallout what i recommend doing is using iobit Powerful uninstaller and reinstalling it. This worked for me

[squirrl]

There are a couple of things you could try. Other than editing the ini file, deleting it outright is a step forward.

One thing that i have noticed with the oblivion/fallout 3 engine is that on windows 7 if you disable aero (desktop composition) while the game is running then it will start the game, although this was to do with the software itself and not the gameplay.

NV and Fallout 3 use pretty much the same engine so the issue likely lies in your system environment rather than the game in general given that you have the same issue on both games.

Try closing all your open programs (including displayfusion) and launch it again to see if there is any improvement.

[LordChristof]

Also I use a software called Display Fusion which lets you customize your desktop, as well as a software called f.lux which helps dim the screams during certain times to reduce eye strain. I have one monitor vertical and one horizontal, the horizontal being the one I use for gaming. I just don't see these causing a problem, but you never know.

 

Thank you for taking the time to read this, sorry for the short story of a post.

If you have any questions, I will be happy to try and answer them to the best of my ability.

I read somewhere that Multi displaying will crash fallout. Especially tabbing out. I suggest disabling the other monitor while playing. I've been trying to go back and play fallout 3. The same it crashes too often with mods. 

[HeyItsKorey]

Wow thanks for all the replies everyone!

 

@BroProStudios I've never heard of IOBit Powerful Uninstaller, will look into and give it a shot. Thank you for the idea.

@squirrl Ive tried deleting the .ini file and replaying the game to create a new one, but no improvement. Will try disabling Display Fusion and see what happens.

@LordChristof I have tried disabling the monitor, but that was a bust.

 

Thanks again, I will provide an update after trying these options.

[HeyItsKorey]

I got around to trying IOBit, with no success unfortunately. I checked quickly and couldn't find a way to disable Display Fusion. I think the only real option would be uninstalling it and trying that. I think I might try editing the .ini again and maybe some patches. Not really sure where to go. Thanks for the ideas guys!

[MarvinKMooney]

I had the same issue a while back, this helped me

 

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2825612