Fallout 3 crash!

[skate048]

Hello so today I thought I would play one of my favorite games of all time fallout 3. But for some strange reason as soon as I press the Play button in the launcher it crashes! And I don't know how to fix it!

[desertcomputer]

Do you have any mods installed?

[skate048]

Do you have any mods installed?

Nope not yet anyway! I just installed it.

[Xenift]

Fallout 3 has many compatibility issues with the newer CPUs.

That might be the issue.

 

Try limiting the cores used to 2.

[skate048]

Fallout 3 has many compatibility issues with the newer CPUs.

That might be the issue.

 

Try limiting the cores used to 2.

How?

[Xenift]

It is located in 

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Fallout3 for XP

or 

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Fallout3 for Vista/Win 7

Open the fallout.ini and scroll down a little, look for the following line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

It is in the [General] section of the file, if you pass [Display] you've gone slightly too far down. Change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1 

Hit enter (so it adds a new line) and add the following line:

iNumHWThreads=2

So the two lines should look like this:

bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHWThreads=2

Save the file and close and you're done.

 

 

Not written by me-

[skate048]

It is located in 

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Fallout3 for XP

or 

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Fallout3 for Vista/Win 7

Open the fallout.ini and scroll down a little, look for the following line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

It is in the [General] section of the file, if you pass [Display] you've gone slightly too far down. Change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1 

Hit enter (so it adds a new line) and add the following line:

iNumHWThreads=2

So the two lines should look like this:

bUseThreadedAI=1

iNumHWThreads=2

Save the file and close and you're done.

 

 

Not written by me-

I have windows 8 so will it still work?

[Xenift]

I have windows 8 so will it still work?

Yeah windows 10 has downward compatibility modes even till xp.

[skate048]

Yeah windows 10 has downward compatibility modes even till xp.

Ok wait and i will try your method!

[Gi Di]

Fallout 3 is the worst when it comes to compatibility issues, here's a guide someone made on steam. Hope this helps. https://steamcommunity.com/app/22370/discussions/0/828937546147175081/

[skate048]

Yeah windows 10 has downward compatibility modes even till xp.

After 3 hours I have finally fixed it!

[Xenift]

After 3 hours I have finally fixed it!

What did ya do?

[skate048]

What did ya do?

I fucked up the ini code the first time so I had to uninstall the whole game to reset everything. Then I got it working but when i started installing all of my must have mods and graphical mods and such it wouldn't start so then I spent around 2 hours fixing the incommpatibilities. Btw after 30 minutes i had installed 136 mods! I'm a bit of an addict aren't I?

[Xenift]

I fucked up the ini code the first time so I had to uninstall the whole game to reset everything. Then I got it working but when i started installing all of my must have mods and graphical mods and such it wouldn't start so then I spent around 2 hours fixing the incommpatibilities. Btw after 30 minutes i had installed 136 mods! I'm a bit of an addict aren't I?

Well everyone does that

Btw if you delete the ini and start the game they will generate a new ini