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burst6   03-24-2009 at 01:26:15 AM

i ran fallout 3 on my computer before, it worked fine, and nothing bad happened (except for a occasional freeze which was fixed by playing it in windowed mode). That was not my copy, my friend took it back and i liked it so much i decided to buy a copy off of steam. now when i try to run it and start a new game it gets stuck before i choose my gender. i can hear all the machines and i can still press e to cry but nothing happens. also when i load a old saved game most of the characters are stuck in a single pose when moving, stuck in animation. if i talk to them they go back to normal but i cant exactly speak to super mutants running towards me with giant planks
windows vista x64
AMD phenom tri-core processor 2.1 GHz
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT
4 gb ram

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pr2thej   03-24-2009 at 11:20:51 AM
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could be a bad steam install, delete local content and reinstall it.
Btw im assuming your friend lent you a retail version. You should also know that your specs are really on the low end and i would expect problems anyway, but if you have run it before then i guess its Steam, or perhaps the 2 games had different versions and a recent patch is screwing you over.

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mi1ez   03-24-2009 at 02:35:08 PM
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Did you completely uninstall the old version before installing the steam version? (I may be clutching at straws!)

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burst6   03-24-2009 at 10:20:07 PM
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well not exactly... i dont remember exactly but i think i just deleted everything inside the place i downloaded...

damn.. i cant believe i did that. this is a registry problem isnt it.


Message edited by burst6 on 03-24-2009 at 11:51:16 PM
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pr2thej   03-25-2009 at 12:11:31 AM
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Oh dont go messing around in there manually matey.
Have a look on your add/remove progs list or have a look through installed progs on something like (wait for it...!) Auslogics Boostspeed and see if you can clear up the remnants. Boostspeed also has a registry cleaner / defrag option that will remove all the unwanted / unused parts.

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burst6   03-26-2009 at 03:18:50 AM
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well i did that.. but now when i try to run the game it pulls out the launcher and tells me i need to install the game.

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pr2thej   03-26-2009 at 10:18:02 AM
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Hmmm your Steam version pulls out the launcher? Cant be right....

You still got the retail disk in the drive or something?

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burst6   03-26-2009 at 05:39:01 PM
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nope.. all my drives are empty. also going directly into fallout3.exe still gives me the launcher


Message edited by burst6 on 03-26-2009 at 05:55:17 PM
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DiViD   06-23-2009 at 03:28:42 AM
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I've got the exact same problem where the game gets "stuck" running the retail non steam version running in Windows 7 RC x64. It appears to be a scripting issue as there is a delay in the conversations.

My specs are - i7-920, GTS 250 1GB with 6GB of DDR3 RAM

However it works on my other computer which is about 5 years old running Windows XP 32 bit for a while and then it crashes later on. :fou: :fou:

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