Maddie_Larkin

Thanks for the info

Our situations are quite similar, but I found that Windows does not bug up on restart. When I restart, it is as if nothing happened.

And forgot to mention in original post, i have Windows XP Professional.

Lets just hope that patch seals the deal

best of luck fixing your comp

zaku,

I understand that they are going to patch it, but how long will that take? IMO they should have thought about tis before they released the game.

Treflis

That comment did not contribute at all. Thanks for trying.

aschuhart

thanks for the info. Didn't know that this was so widespread.

I'll prolly check the official forums for something similar to my problems.

GPaddict

I just installed on my drivers like a week ago, HIGHLY doubt thats the problem

Qixote

I dont know what ASUS utility youa re speaking of, but it is one of the optional things like AI doctor or what not, I did not install any of the optional tools.

thanks for the insight though

I have been trying to find someone out there with the same problems as me in Fallout 3, but have not found anyone.

A lot of people say that they find checkered squares, but I haven't encountered that. When I open pip-boy, or VATS it has a chance of completely freezing, no squares, just a frozen screen. The background music continues to play, and there is no sound loop if I just shot or what not. I cannot ALT + TAB out, ALT F4, WINDOWS + D, WINDOWS + M, CTRL + ALT + DEL, anything. Basically, I have to restart.

And that is only sometimes.

Other times, it will just crash. The Fallout window will just close immediately, going to desktop, as if nothing had happened. Everything runs fine.

And then sometimes it crashes and messes up the desktop. It will crash, and the resolution will be like 640x480, and color all messed up, similar to when you first install windows without any drivers. There will also be a Microsoft Error report saying Fallout 3 has encountered a problem and closed. After pressing Don't Send, I just restart the comp and the res and color is back to normal.

I have never encountered a time where it has crashed with squares everywhere.

It appears to be random, but NORMALLY happens when I do something In-Game, like open pip-boy 3000, or go into VATS, similar to what others have said.

I have EAH4870 ASUS (which I am now regretting after all these FC2, and fallout crashes), 6600 intel quad, mobo is p5ql-e, 2 gigs RAM.

I doubt it is my card overheating. The fan on it is working fine, and my case has two fans, both pretty close to the card. There is no lag as well. Havent checked fps in fallout, but my fps in fc2 is above 40's and in crysis its low 40's.

My drivers are all up to date, I updated them maybe 2 days ago.

I would not be surprised to hear if this is because of the video card, because I had the same problem in FarCry 2, which I fixed by installing the VGA hotfix 8.1.

Anybody know what to do?

Specs again: ASUS EAH4870 1G DDR5, 2GB RAM, Q6600 INTEL QUAD, P5QL-E Motherboard.

tl;dr = fallout is crashing, i have a 4870, no squares