I play fallout 3 on windows 7 32 bit and and lately I can not play fallout 3 anymore because game freeze not long after I start new game or load save. Just Freeze not crash to desktop. I have search this board for my case and I have try some fix that already have in this board but not solve my problems. And I already re-install the game and run the game without any mod but game still hang.
Last thing I haven't tried is re-install OS.

I don't have this problem on my new vegas.

If anyone can help me solve this problem please help.

Thinks.

hmm if you don't have any mods and it still freezes ? that is odd did you just turn the mods off ? or did you uninstall them ? some mods even when not Active can still mess with your game

midnight1996 wrote:

hmm if you don't have any mods and it still freezes ? that is odd did you just turn the mods off ? or did you uninstall them ? some mods even when not Active can still mess with your game

Uninstall old game, delete all remain, install new one and find game still freeze.

Have you been able to play it before without freezing? There's an issue with Fallout 3 and windows 7, its simply not optimized to play on windows 7, however there is a way around this. This video should teach you how to fix the freezing problem. Lemme know how it works (i had the same problem).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuTE8-4lNU

ThreeDog wrote:

Have you been able to play it before without freezing? There's an issue with Fallout 3 and windows 7, its simply not optimized to play on windows 7, however there is a way around this. This video should teach you how to fix the freezing problem. Lemme know how it works (i had the same problem).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuTE8-4lNU

i play fo3 on 7 and it don't freeze

any way i have no idea on whats wrong i am sorry i wish i could help

If for some reason it is because of your OS try running it on compatibility mode for an older OS perhaps I dont know if that will help but it's just something you could try. I remember my fallout 3 disc would not even run installer on anything Windows 7 and above so I ended up buying on steam and that works fine.

Now I can play the game little longer with not freeze but I have some crash problem and when I put the d3d9.dll in game folder when I launch the game they give me error massage for 4-5 times before game launch.

rcaohm wrote:

Now I can play the game little longer with not freeze but I have some crash problem and when I put the d3d9.dll in game folder when I launch the game they give me error massage for 4-5 times before game launch.

try this method yet?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2825612

tigerx87 wrote:

rcaohm wrote:

Now I can play the game little longer with not freeze but I have some crash problem and when I put the d3d9.dll in game folder when I launch the game they give me error massage for 4-5 times before game launch.

try this method yet?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2825612

Still crash.

midnight1996 wrote:

ThreeDog wrote:

Have you been able to play it before without freezing? There's an issue with Fallout 3 and windows 7, its simply not optimized to play on windows 7, however there is a way around this. This video should teach you how to fix the freezing problem. Lemme know how it works (i had the same problem).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuTE8-4lNU

i play fo3 on 7 and it don't freeze

any way i have no idea on whats wrong  i am sorry i wish i could help

Lucky you, it does freeze for most people and even the Steam store page says its not optimized for Windows 7. I had to follow this video to be able to play Fallout 3.

I never had any issues running Fallout 3 on Windows 7 or 8.

As soon as I install it I use the program that removes its dependency on Games For Windows Live. That can be found here: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/1086/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Ffallout3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D1086&pUp=1

G4WL is the most half-assed nonsense Microsoft has ever come up with. I hope whoever created it was fired, or eaten by bees.

Tesvixen wrote:

I never had any issues running Fallout 3 on Windows 7 or 8.  

As soon as I install it I use the program that removes its dependency on Games For Windows Live.  That can be found here: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/1086/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Ffallout3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D1086&pUp=1

G4WL is the most half-assed nonsense Microsoft has ever come up with.  I hope whoever created it was fired, or eaten by bees.

Thanks for sharing the link, I hate Games For Windows Live. It makes you wonder why Bethesda even included that annoying PoS. I guess they had their reasons....

Now I can play Fallout 3 little longer with no freeze but I got some strange crash problem. I think ALL d3d9.dll not work for my computer. When I play I disabled all auto-save option and make some manual save that give longer time before the crash and when crash I start game again and some time I get a crash immediately I just start over again and I can play continue.

Thank for every one help.

rcaohm wrote:

Now I can play the game little longer with not freeze but I have some crash problem and when I put the d3d9.dll in game folder when I launch the game they give me error massage for 4-5 times before game launch.

I've had that error message before. Just delete the.dll file and you should be able to play saved games, not so sure about starting a new one though. if that doesnt work you could try updating/downloding DirectX. When I had this problem thats what someone else recommended to me.