Fallout 3 Crashes\Freezes upon opening (on first black screen)

This, is really starting to piss me off, I jsut got the game, got the Games for windows live update thing to fix the ordinal crap and the xlive.dll error, patched it, then tried playing the game, it crashed\froze the very second it open up and showed the black screen (nothing else appers, nor any sound is made), so I have to ALT CTRL DEL out

I then tried the Codec Fix thing and made sure it was in the list of exceptions, nothing changed, I also tried running it in windowed mode, still nothing!!

What the hell is going on! How could a game that pretty popular and made by the same comapny that made Morrowind and oblivion (which both dont crash much or at all for me) make a game that doesnt even work!

My Specs should be fine as pretty much everything else Ive played works

Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) 32bit
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ (Stock : 2.7GHz // OC'ed to : 2.8GHz)
4 GB DDR2 800 MHz Ram
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Onboard Video (1.6 GB VRAM // GPU Stock : 400 MHz // GPU OC'ed to : 600 MHz)
Realtek HD Audio
500 GB SATA II Hard Disk

I dont think its because Im using win 7 since all the other games I have (Oblivion, Morrowind, Sim City 4) work and run smooth (even better then XP)
I also have the latest Drivers as i just updated them last week (with the most recent drivers for my video card) and I dont use AVG (some people where having problems with AVG and Fallout 3)

Is there anyway to fix this? Please tell me there is, I paid a good price for this game and I dont want it to goto waste, and I dont want to rip my hair out either!

Well, its nice to see that Im not the only one

I just hope somebody will help us!

All I see for video is on baord. What card are you using ?

I find it hard to believe you can play Oblivion on that thing at any respectable settings but on board graphics get better as time goes by ...... BUT....................... time to invest in a decent video card don't you think ???? That way you won't be posting questions like this.

I sort of have the same problem. FOr me the problems started while installing it. When it was installing the first part of the game(the windows live or whatever its called part) it popped up and said the the softare does not pass the windows certification test. It installs everything else fine. WHen i sart the game it gets to the loading screen then quits back to the desk top. ITs worked on my computer before so maybe its a virus or something. someone plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my system
windows xp
AMD x2 5000+
9800gtx+
2gb DDR2
80gb internal
500gb external

Um I had the same problem and I have a solution. The game crashes whenever you save, so just disable the autosave. Like I said, its temporary.



OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+
CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad CPU @2.66GHz
RAM: 4 GB, 3.25 Usable
Main HDD: 750GB
Secondary HDD: 750GB

when fallout 3 crashed on me, i had to underclock my video card and it was fine.

I take it you've installed the G4WL Win7 update? - Win7 Downloads, I think G4WL V3.??
In stall FO3 including G4WL - then up date G4WL win7 - update FO3
FO3 shortcut 'Compatibility tag 'WinXP serv pl3' - depending on your user settings you may have Rmouse FO3 Shortcut and select 'Run as admin'
If pre-FO3 game setup box appears select lowest graphics, and screen settings - start the game.
You upgrade FO3 settings a little at a time.
As for been able to run other games like Oblivion, so what! just because they're both games doesn't mean they all work in same way.
Any way good luck -

PS I take it you've updated all system/graphic/sound drivers to Win7 - including those extra bits within windows update?