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    m11x r2 Fallout3 hangup

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by squeak83uk2, Dec 1, 2010.

  1. squeak83uk2

    squeak83uk2 Notebook Consultant

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    hey guys i have searched the forum and the interweb for this issue and kinda drew a blank,

    i am a new owner of a i5 4gb ram r2 oc cpu to 156 atm , however when i tried to play fallout 3 , i get to the goat test, and it just says the program is not responding,

    plays all other games fine like deadrising 2, just cause, bfbc2 , mw2 all fine..

    anyone experienced this issue?
     
    squeak83uk2, Dec 1, 2010
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  2. AboutThreeFitty

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    Try this:

    Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3

    Find the line:

    bUseThreadedAI=0

    change it to:

    bUseThreadedAI=1

    Add another line after it and insert:

    iNumHWThreads=2


    This will limit the game to 2 cores and prevent the engine bug from causing the game to freeze.
     
    AboutThreeFitty, Dec 1, 2010
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  3. TheGodlyAsian

    TheGodlyAsian Notebook Guru

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    TheGodlyAsian, Dec 1, 2010
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  4. squeak83uk2

    squeak83uk2 Notebook Consultant

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    thanks, the above INI fix worked, anyone know if new vegas has the smae engine issue as i will be getting it for christmas...
     
    squeak83uk2, Dec 2, 2010
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    How can you possibly know what Santa is going to bring you for Christmas. It all depends on so many factors, most specifically the definition of Good and whether or not you have been it.
     
    froogle, Dec 2, 2010
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    I don't know if it is 100% the same, but it is very similar. Fallout New Vegas doesn't seem to have that exact problem with the INI. With the latest patch I believe that it should run fine without any tweaking.
     
    AboutThreeFitty, Dec 2, 2010
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  7. GallardosEggrollshop

    GallardosEggrollshop Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah runs fine on my R1 so you should be good to play.
     
    GallardosEggrollshop, Dec 2, 2010
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