Editing .INI file?

[hagathina]

First of all, when I do a search for the FALLOUT.INI file, I actually get something called FalloutPrefs. I DO NOT SEE a Fallout.ini file anywhere in the folder.

And in that file(the FalloutPrefs file), if I search for the bUIseThreadAI=O line, it does not exist.

This is the contents of that file:

[Display]
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=10
iTexMipMapSkip=0
iWaterMultisamples=4
bTransparencyMultisampling=1
fSpecularLODStartFade=2000
fShadowLODStartFade=1000
fLightLODStartFade=3500
bDrawShadows=1
iActorShadowCountInt=6
iActorShadowCountExt=6
iShadowFilter=2
iShadowMapResolution=1024
iAdapter=0
iSize W=1280
iSize H=720
iMultiSample=4
iMaxAnisotropy=15
iPresentInterval=1
bFull Screen=1
sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M "
[Grass]
b30GrassVS=0
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000
[Imagespace]
iRadialBlurLevel=2
bDoDepthOfField=1
[Water]
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bForceHighDetailReflections=1
bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=0
bUseWaterDepth=1
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
iWaterReflectWidth=1024
iWaterReflectHeight=1024
bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1
iWaterBlurAmount=4
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=40000
fBlockLoadDistanceLow=50000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.5
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultActors=15
fLODFadeOutMultItems=15
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=15
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=1
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0
[Launcher]
bShowAllResolutions=1
uLastAspectRatio=3

Again, I can not find a Fallout.ini file in the fallout3 folder in Documents.

Not sure what to do now.....

[hagathina]

Okay, so I searched in every file in Fallout 3 and found the line in a file called Fallout_default.

There definitely is NO fallout.ini file.

I altered the one line and added the second in the fallout_default file, but it had no effect on my game. I still freeze up as soon as I enter the Listening Tower in the Anchorage area.

[BenWah]

The instructions are pinned at the top of this forum.
You edited the wrong file, changes there won't do anything to help you.
The correct one is in C:|users\Documents\my games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.ini

Right click this file and open notepad:
My Documents\my games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.INI
WARNING: DO NOT EDIT THE INI FILE IN YOUR FALLOUT PROGRAM FOLDER!!! THE CORRECT ONE IS IN DOCUMENTS!!!
find (control F) bUseThreadedAI=0
CHANGE to bUseThreadedAI=1
Immediately after this line, ADD this new line:
iNumHWThreads=2

[hagathina]

I looked in there, too, and there is no .ini file. Really. Honestly. THERE IS NO .INI file.

The files in that folder are:

Saves (folder)
Fallout
FalloutPrefs
Renderer Infor.

That all, folks.

[BenWah]

haha. It's right there!

The correct file is FALLOUT.
By default, windows 8 doesn't display extensions.
You can fix this by going to windows explorer options.

Anyway the go ahead and edit FALLOUT, which is really FALLOUT.ini

[R5CYA]

my win 7 64 is the same way. it's confusing looking for files. gonna try the explorer options. thanks for the tip, BenWah.

[BenWah]

i really should edit step 4 to make it less prone to confusion

[hagathina]

Thank you for all of this. I did indeed edit the file, and only had one crash after that. Merci, Merci, merci.