After surfing some forums however, I found that this resolved the issue for a few people.ģ) From my understanding there are some sound cards that aren't fully compatible with Fallout 3. I don't have FFDShow installed so I cannot verify this. From there, click on 'Edit' and select your Fallout 3 executable.

Needless to say, try it without AA first and if it works, feel free to fidget with your AA levelsĢ) If you have FFDShow, open the codec manager and tick 'Do not use FFDShow in.'.

I found that I could have AA enabled and this method would still work. Again, this is the fix that worked for me. Only one of the possible solutions I found actually worked for me, but I'll go ahead and list the rest just in case.įirst and foremost, the fix that worked for me.ġ) Reduce your monitor's refresh from whatever down to 60, run the game in windowed mode, and turn off AA. I found a wide myriad of 'solutions' to the crashing issues that Fallout 3 brings to the table. Fallout 3, for me, kept crashing about once every 5-10 minutes, or 15 minutes if I was lucky.

Fallout 3 crash on start