Does FO:NV share the same freeze bugs as FO3?Follow

Not when I played it, however you may encounter missing NPCs or environmental clipping while playing. If you are playing the PC version I suggest checking Nexusmods to see if they have the latest user created bug patch for before games.

Yeah, PC version. Be grooving along, doing my own thing and then it just freezes. Have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to task manager and kill it that way to unlock the computer.

It crashes semi-regularly for me. I'll be playing for maybe a half hour and it'll freeze. Googling about tells me that the game doesn't play well with multi-core processors and so there's tips about editing the .ini file to only use 2 cores or even one. That hasn't fixed it for me though. I'm pretty spastic on the F5 key so I haven't lost tons of progress, it's just a pain in the *** to have to close out via task manager and restart the whole thing. I figured if NV was fixed, I might just jump into that instead. I've enjoyed FO3 enough to play it, but I'm not sure enough to keep dealing with this issue.

I found New Vegas to be much more buggy than FO3, personally. I can say for sure that NV launched in a much worse state, but they had purportedly fixed most of the issues with patching. I didn't play it at launch, so I couldn't speak to that, but it wasn't running very well when I got to it around a year after release.

To be fair, though, my laptop was in a decidedly worse state when I played NV than it was when I played Fallout 3. Much of my frustration was due to overheating issues while running the game.

I had far fewer crashes and freezes with FO:NV than I did with FO3, but it still has it's own share of issues where NPCs and quests don't want to work the way they should. I don't think this was ever really game breaking, though, and I personally believe it was worth the full price. I might be biased as I always loved the fallout universe.

Try the video resolution fix: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f59/solved-fallout-3-randomly-freezing-344608.html#post1962376 if that doesn't do the trick, play, let it crash, then immidiatly after crash go to event viewer (after you reboot if necessary) and see if there is any entry in event log detailing the specific module that crashed.

also try:
1. Click Start
2. Click “All Programs”.
3. Go to the ffdshow folder.
4. Click “Audio decoder configuration.”
5. In the left hand pane, click “Info & debug.” or "DirectShow control".This is the second entry in the list.
6. In the right hand pane, near the bottom, find a check box labelled “Don’t use ffdshow in:”
7. Check that box, and in the text box underneath (it lights up when you check the check box), add “fallout3.exe” (don’t include the quotes). If there is already something in that box, put a semi-colon ( ; ) after what’s already there, and fallout3.exe after that. Do NOT use spaces, since ffdshow will think that’s part of the filename. A valid entry would be “explorer.exe;fallout3.exe” (without quotes).
8. Finally, click “Ok” and start Fallout 3.

Also do try run as administrator and run in XP service pack 3 compatability mode tricks and see if that has any effect.

I have both the 360 version and the PC version. The 360 runs terribly compared to the PC version, I've never had a freeze while playing on PC. I'm running a 6 core processor, so I have doubts about the game having issues with multicore processors. I'm not running the Steam version of the game though, so that may be a factor.

Sta y in the center of the map, and go North, you'll find the only green in the game. Point Lookout DLC takes you to a swamp, not green , but there are plants. New Vegas has a much brighter pallette.

It amuses me that Skyrim, set in the hoary north, was considerably more colorful than a game set in Virgina/Maryland.

Take a look at the region around Chernobyl. Erm, not in person mind you. Or Hiroshima. I get that the wasteland thing is part of the whole Fallout milieu just as it's silly to complain about the retro-future-50's aesthetic as unrealistic. I was just hoping for something new with the world when the show moved from the western deserts to the eastern Mid-Atlantic coast.

Edited, Jun 22nd 2012 9:43am by Jophiel

Good deal!

Well, FO3 was basically a remake of the original Fallout so it was to be expected. Make sure you play Operation Anchorage next.

One of the DLC after lets you see the effects of what you did and play more.