Does anyone have any ideas to stop Fallout 3 crashes on Windows 10? Or is it a lost cause?

[Tony72495]

I originally had it set up with the unofficial patch, the multi-core ini tweaks, CASM save manager, the stutter remover mod, and running it in borderless windowed mode.

However, I had some random crashes, maybe in 20-25 minutes, maybe in 3-4 hours, it seemed kind of random.

So I looked online and people had problems with the stutter remover mod, so I tweaked the settings, but still had crashes. So then I uninstalled the stutter remover entirely, and just used the "iFPSClamp=59" Fallout.ini tweak.

It seemed like that fixed the problem...until I crashed recently during my most recent session.

Sure, CASM saves every 5 minutes, but it's still annoying and alarming to potentially lose up to 5 minutes of progress at any given time, I can never predict when the crash comes.

Has anyone found a surefire way to play for hours with no crashes?

[Dutchcrazygamer]

Originally posted by Tony72495:

I originally had it set up with the unofficial patch, the multi-core ini tweaks, CASM save manager, the stutter remover mod, and running it in borderless windowed mode.

However, I had some random crashes, maybe in 20-25 minutes, maybe in 3-4 hours, it seemed kind of random.

So I looked online and people had problems with the stutter remover mod, so I tweaked the settings, but still had crashes. So then I uninstalled the stutter remover entirely, and just used the "iFPSClamp=59" Fallout.ini tweak.

It seemed like that fixed the problem...until I crashed recently during my most recent session.

Sure, CASM saves every 5 minutes, but it's still annoying and alarming to potentially lose up to 5 minutes of progress at any given time, I can never predict when the crash comes.

Has anyone found a surefire way to play for hours with no crashes?

Did you change BuseThreadAI = 0 to bUseThreadAI = 1 and added "iNumHWthreads = 2" in the fallout ini file? You can find this in your documents folder.

[Baby_Cookie[WOLF]]

Large Adress Aware
aka
4gb patch

if it's random over time and not direclty recreatable
chances are you are running out of memory.... due to a build in memory leak -.-

fo3 only uses 2 gb of ram while it can use 4 ( 200% increase is 200% )

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also type "pcb" ( no quotations ) in console every once in a while to force the game to unload interior and exterior cells you curently aren't in form it's memory
( they only add onto the memory leak )
( somehow fo3 doesn't clear it's own memory vey well and will have an interior in megaton in memory while you are somewhere in a metro in dc.... as you can understand that is useless :p )

the best way to tell if it's going to go bottoms up is by opening containers of any sort ( or inventories on npc's )
this should be instant !!!!

if there is a second of delay there, then the memory leak has reached critical proportions and is destined to crash you
( pcb at this point will extend it a bit, but not fix ti )

make save
quit
restart with a cleared memory

is your only option at that point :)


this is random
it can happen after 30 minutes or after 3 hours

4gb and pcb will push the limit as far as they can :)