FALLOUT 3 Bugs

[AzN]

The game runs slow motion at times. 1 second I'm doing 60fps and walking full game speed. next minute I feel like I've entered the matrix bullet time mode. I've turned down ultra settings to high settings and it seemed to help.

I'm in friendship heights metro station and the game does this. Gun keeps rising until it's off the screen. This affects my pip boy menu with it so I can't look at a map or use items.

My Guns raised up higher than it's supposed to and my tab menu has been raised as well so I can't access the menu

Another shot of pip boys menu

Exiting the game and restarting seems to make the problem go away only for a few minutes.

Sometimes crash when you quit the game. This doesn't bother me.

One ah heck of a game.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Yep, I've encountered some problems too. I've gotten stuck on objects quite a few times and had to reload, 1 time I wasn't getting any money for the stuff I was selling, there was some weird artifact when I first entered the big room at the Capitol, and there's some other stuff that I can't recall exactly right now.

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
1 time I wasn't getting any money for the stuff I was selling

merchants have limited cap supply, if you didn't know

if you did, sorry

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: novasatori

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
1 time I wasn't getting any money for the stuff I was selling

merchants have limited cap supply, if you didn't know

if you did, sorry

Oh, I didn't know that. I was using the same merchant for the first few hours of the game, so I guess that would do it. But no matter, I blew her head off anyway.

 

[Cabages]

Hey, good thing we have that Official Fallout 3 Thread!

Or else we all would be lost...

 

[AzN]

This is just 2 hours into the game play and wondering how much worse the game is going to get. I don't see how I'm going to enjoy a game with these major issues. I play 10 minutes after couple of battles my gun gets raised and I can't access pip boy menu.

Worse launch ever other wise seems to be a decent game. I love the story so far.

 

[DefDC]

My game more or less freezes up when I try to go back to Grayditch... Annoying. I didn't have any problems when I was out there questing and getting my nuts toasted by ants.

Annoying.

Just getting ready to try to jump back in!

 

[imported_Imp]

My main problem now has to do with HDR or textures not showing up properly. Once in a while, I will get some 'bland' opaque wall infront of a real wall that appears to be an improperly loaded texture/shroud/effect. Seems to get worse the longer I play. I might try getting new video card drivers, but mines aren't that old to begin with.

 

[JF060392]

no voices, and no quests

 

[TheUnk]

Can't disable VSync, not even through CCC. 4870X2 - Vista64bit.

FPS out of nowhere will drop to 30 and stays that way. Restarting it sets it back to 60 in the exact same location.

PIPboy right side randomly appears and takes over 1/8 of the right side of my screen.

Crashes on exit - annoying.

Not a bug but - Is there no easy way to toss a grenade or switch weapons?

 

[ibex333]

SPOILER ALERT!!!


Don't know if this belongs here, but I have a rather funky bug here... Basically, there was a quest where I have to rescue a Brotherhood of Steel initiate from a building filled with supermutants. After I rescue him, his buddies in power armor offer their protection for when I need to get through the church area. I didnt need to get through that area at the time, so I left the BOS guys where they were and went on my way. Little did I know, that one of them, named Paladin Hoss decided that it would be fun to haunt me everywhere I go.
The 1st time he popped out as I was exiting a maintenance closet deep in the subway tunnels. It was so sudden that I jumped and felt the blood rush to my head. I swear, for a second, I thought it was a monster or something... Then another time, in Megaton, I went to sleep in my bed, in my house to heal the wounds from last battle. I woke up, and just went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee, when... BOOM! Out of nowhere jumps out... You guessed it! Paladin Hoss! Again, it was so sudden that a few bad words came out of my mouth... And so, now I have to play Fallout 3, paranoid, not knowing when Hoss will pop out of nowhere to give me a heart attack.

The worst part about all this, is that every time he jumps out on me, he starts running away(and unless I follow him, dissapears out of sight). I'm assuming the AI is trying to return to the place where he belongs. He's got a very long way to go, and he can get killed on the way there! In case he will be a part of a quest later in the game or I need his protection services I might be out of luck if he gets killed.

I also had a bug where a mutated rat was suck in the ground and only the top of it's back and head was sticking out. I see this kind of stuff in many games... I think it's called "clippping", no? Other than that and several crashes(mostly on launch and exit), I didn't see any other bugs yet.

 

[Jschmuck2]

I don't have a single issue. At all.

Yay!

 

[Zenoth]

I'd be very curious to know if anyone else is having the same problem. Each and every single time I Fast Travel to Megaton then it does bring me there, but then after five to ten seconds or so it CTD's. It's inevitable, it's always occurring, it's reproducible, each time I try it, it works. And it's the only way I can get a crash in Fallout 3 so far (I've been playing for a good 12 hours total so far).

It has never crashed elsewhere. So is anyone else getting that problem as well?

 

[zerogear]

A few here and there, nothing major.

 

[AzN]

I found another bug. You can't fast travel to super duper mart without crashing to desktop.

There's also a major bug. If you don't get constant 60fps your game becomes slow depending on the frame rate. So if you get 30fps outdoors you walk half the rate you would normally walk.

 

[Cutthroat]

I can't play, I can get to the main screen, but when I try to start a new game it crashes.

 

[TheUnk]

God why can't I turn off vsync!

 

[Elcs]

Does anyone get motion sickness in this game?

By the time I had reached the birthday party, I was starting to feel the effects of this.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Azn
I found another bug. You can't fast travel to super duper mart without crashing to desktop.

There's also a major bug. If you don't get constant 60fps your game becomes slow depending on the frame rate. So if you get 30fps outdoors you walk half the rate you would normally walk.

The Super Duper Mart crash sounds like something with your system - I've fast traveled there many times without a problem. I haven't noticed the 2nd problem either.

For many of these bugs, I bet they can be fixed with a reformat/reinstall of Windows. I couldn't get Mass Effect to start before I did a clean reinstall on my machine. I've since beaten it with relatively few problems.

 

[JF060392]

BETHESDA FAIL

 

[Pepsei]

i have crash to blackscreen once in awhile.... luckily autosave is there.

i have vista ultima x64, 4 gig ram, 8800gt, the game runs like butter.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Azn
I found another bug. You can't fast travel to super duper mart without crashing to desktop.

There's also a major bug. If you don't get constant 60fps your game becomes slow depending on the frame rate. So if you get 30fps outdoors you walk half the rate you would normally walk.

The Super Duper Mart crash sounds like something with your system - I've fast traveled there many times without a problem. I haven't noticed the 2nd problem either.

For many of these bugs, I bet they can be fixed with a reformat/reinstall of Windows. I couldn't get Mass Effect to start before I did a clean reinstall on my machine. I've since beaten it with relatively few problems.

This happened to me 2 times in a row from different locations.

I'm using latest official Nvidia WHQL drivers. My system is 100% stable. Perhaps it has something to do with the saved game. Never the less it's still a bug with a save state system.

Second problem has been identified with many users. What GPU are you running and what settings? IF you get constant 60 fps you don't have this problem but I bet even the best systems still dip to 30fps in occasions unless you set everything to low or medium without any AA. Perhaps it's just you who can't identify the problem.

 

[datalink7]

Running the game on max settings.

My current list of bugs:

 

[Frodolives]

A number of people have reported crashes associated with loading a new area. For some of them, turning off the option to autosave on new area has appeared to help. I will say once more that the Bethesda Forums are much richer for suggestions to search right now.

Without giving out much detail Bethesda has acknowledged that they are pinning down some issues. I know that's little consolation for people having issues, but at least there's support at work. That's more than I can say for the last Vivendi game that I wanted to love

 

[imported_Imp]

Another minor, but annoying bug is with heavy weapons. Most of the time, the weapon disappears or flies off after I kill th guy who was using it. It looks like it's way too bouncy and falls through the floor.