Fallout 3 Release 28th October
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Yeh I read that. 
With the deadly comment I meant to say that in fast paced shooters like UT a steady framerate is a must have. In Fallout this is much less the case, since the whole game is on a slower pace.
And the other thing I meant to say was: Maybe FRAPS is the reason the FSP drops occur? Did you try playing without FRAPS?
With the deadly comment I meant to say that in fast paced shooters like UT a steady framerate is a must have. In Fallout this is much less the case, since the whole game is on a slower pace.And the other thing I meant to say was: Maybe FRAPS is the reason the FSP drops occur? Did you try playing without FRAPS?
Well, I have FRAPS displaying the FPS in all games since I build this PC over 1,5 years ago. Occasionally I want to know the number at the exact moment I want to know it and that's why it's always on. I highly doubt FRAPS is the reason for the crashes. I looked around a bit trying to find help and found quite a few people having similar problems. I had a similar experience with Morrowind - the older your save became, the more stuff you did and places you visited, the less stable was your game. Might be the same thing here.
My personal experience was, a few crashes when I started the game a few weeks ago, then almost nothing, then loads during exploring the wastelands, and when I gave up exploring and followed the story again it went back to almost no crashes (and I didn't have to "reset the performance" with F5/F9). I did explore the wastelands for weeks with almost no problems before the number of crashes jumped up at some point. Problem is I'm not sure what that point was.
I posted it more as a hint for others who might have the same problem. It's worth a try.
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I'll try playing without FRAPS. I'll load an old save from before I started to follow the main story and do the stuff that usually ended with a crash.
My personal experience was, a few crashes when I started the game a few weeks ago, then almost nothing, then loads during exploring the wastelands, and when I gave up exploring and followed the story again it went back to almost no crashes (and I didn't have to "reset the performance" with F5/F9). I did explore the wastelands for weeks with almost no problems before the number of crashes jumped up at some point. Problem is I'm not sure what that point was.
I posted it more as a hint for others who might have the same problem. It's worth a try.
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I'll try playing without FRAPS. I'll load an old save from before I started to follow the main story and do the stuff that usually ended with a crash.
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Crashed again after a battle with a couple of Enclave goons. This time when I clicked on the "Items" button in the PIPBoy.
So yeah.
News time children!
Never forget the importance of periodic performance fixes; looting a corpse, quick traveling, saving via the menu, clicking a button, I don't care which. If your game engine is clogged, the only wasteland arsehole it's going to crash back to the desktop is you. So be smart. Watch that FPS counter and quick save and load whenever you need.
FRAPS wasn't running this time.
So yeah.
News time children!
Never forget the importance of periodic performance fixes; looting a corpse, quick traveling, saving via the menu, clicking a button, I don't care which. If your game engine is clogged, the only wasteland arsehole it's going to crash back to the desktop is you. So be smart. Watch that FPS counter and quick save and load whenever you need.
Uh I think you can activate an ingame FPS counter on the screen via the console.
You can in Oblivion. ShowFPS, ToggleFPS, or something like that I can't remember.
You can in Oblivion. ShowFPS, ToggleFPS, or something like that I can't remember.
No doubt, and I don't say people should go download FRAPS. As I said, it's always running in the background for me and that's how I noticed the problem. By chance, really. I doubt I'd have bothered enabling the in-game FPS counter since I had no reason to do that even if FRAPS wouldn't have been running already.
Dark Pulse
Dolla, Dolla. Holla, Holla.
It'll get worse. Wait till you begin running into the Feral Ghouls.
I'm quite deep into it (about 70 hours worth) and I've loved it. My only gripe is that the Sniper Rifles absolutely suck. Unless you're close to the target - which, if you are, defeats the whole purpose of using a Sniper Rifle - you have to either aim above or below it to actually hit it. Not to mention their terrible durability, although I got the unique rifles, which helps out greatly.
Still... those things should have... you know... range? As it stands, a target seems to have to fill about 3/4 the center scope reticule just to have a shot at hitting it at all.
It'll get worse. Wait till you begin running into the Feral Ghouls.
Or have a Yao Guai flank and surprise you from behind. Or have the Feral's rushing out from the darkess in the Museum. That's particularly scary.
Man, I just realized the Operation Anchorage and The Pitt DLC is being released on Tuesday and Sunday respectively, that has totally sneaked up on me. I haven't played it in a fair while now, but now I'm probably going to get sucked into it all over again.
Interesting. So how do you feel about the game now that you've actually played it?
Interesting. So how do you feel about the game now that you've actually played it?
Or have a Yao Guai flank and surprise you from behind. Or have the Feral's rushing out from the darkess in the Museum. That's particularly scary.It'll get worse. Wait till you begin running into the Feral Ghouls.
You'll never forget your first Deathclaw either...
I think it's good, I had nice moments, even with the V.A.T.S. Especially for a last-kill-shot on a opponent. Otherwise you'll want to manually aim.
Unfortunately I get too much Bioshock in this game, searching and searching all over again for very few ammo is rather annoying. But then they got the concept right, you really got to do with what you have, and sometimes it's a pain in the ass even on normal.
Not that I'm out of caps, but the vendors empty out really quick in ammo, which makes this a pain in the ass even more, and weapon repair is really expensive.
Yesterday night I completely lost interest in a "search the family" quest. Most of the quest just ends up being chain quest and it's really annoying. I really like the dup-mart research quest for example, quest like these makes me want to keep on going, "listen-to-tape", "find-the-location-yourself" quests are sooooo old and boring.
I really try to like this game to keep on playing it regularly but it's hard for all of above.
EDIT: Also I don't understand something, my medicine is at 40 or so, I have a food purifier, and all that. But whenever I eat or consume something my health BARELY goes up a bit. That's just like Bioshock with the useless potatoes ship sacs, but then when you find Stimpacks or water drains you're in heaven. Screw the RAD+, tap water heals so fast and radiation is so easy to cure of you got rad away's. There's also a perk which reduce 50% of radiation taken from drinking tap/toilet(WTF!) water.
And the game keep on crashing randomly in many houses, I have to play this game windowed to access the task manager.
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40 medicine isn't alot, and food doesn't heal for much inherently anyway.
As for ammo, hunt around for some raider camps, snipe them out and flank them from long/medium range then run in and loot the joint. You get some good ammo that way - or head into DC.
As for ammo, hunt around for some raider camps, snipe them out and flank them from long/medium range then run in and loot the joint. You get some good ammo that way - or head into DC.
Lizard Of Oz
Demented Avenger
Hint: Find the "Alien Blaster" (Northwest-ish of Scrapyard). It's one-shot-one-kill in many cases. VERY good close range weapon.
With it you'll find plenty of ammo, but use it wisely because there is little ammo to find elsewhere.
With it you'll find plenty of ammo, but use it wisely because there is little ammo to find elsewhere.
Dark Pulse
Dolla, Dolla. Holla, Holla.
The key words there are "Buy the downloadable content." The mod content will likely be regular old .ESP plugin files... and will, of course, therefore show up on all the torrent trackers that do such things very quickly as a result.
Actually, you're a fair bit off.
The best way to find the Alien Crash Site is to head directly north of MDPL-13 Power Station, which is North-Northwest of Minefield. To get there from the Scrapyard, you'd have to walk Northeast, not Northwest, and quite a fair bit off.
You'll know you're getting close when you pick up the signal from the radio - it only extends about 200 yards out into the gameworld.
You'll know you're getting close when you pick up the signal from the radio - it only extends about 200 yards out into the gameworld.
Obviously, repairing the weapon will have to be done by NPCs, as the Alien Blaster is unique. Your best bet would be to head to Canterbury Commons and invest money in Crazy Wolfgang, which will give him the highest repair skill in the game (at about 75.) Alternatively, if you're on the PC, you can type player.srm to activate the repair screen using your own skill, and trade in caps for repairs as usual. It degrades fast, so watch its condition and your ammo, as well.
Note that a stop to the Scrapyard isn't a bad idea, however...
...as you can recruit Dogmeat there, and he's easily one of the best followers in the game.
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Lizard Of Oz
Demented Avenger
You're right. Sorry I was going by hazy memory. At the time I found the Alien ship, I was exploring that whole area (Scrap Yard, Power Station, Greener Pastures, etc..).