The Guru3D Fallout 3 PC Thread

hi people is their a way to get the game to display the fps rate and now use fraps as im trying to banish fraps form all my games lol, also is their a way to display more info other than fps in game

 

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I just re-ran it in the same place, overclocked my card, turned off aa and it was same as before at 1920x1200, so gpu limitation should no longer apply.

I did 3 screenshots with less stuff happening to show vsync is off and ran the same bench for 60 secs.

Min and average are up but max is still the same.

2008-11-02 12:17:10 - Fallout3
Frames: 3580 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 59.667 - Min: 48 - Max: 65







I'm gonna try runnning it at 1440x900.


LOl, screens and bench at 1440x1900 ( I'm not yanking your chain :bang

All benches were run while looking straight ahead.

2008-11-02 12:32:59 - Fallout3
Frames: 3464 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 57.733 - Min: 47 - Max: 65

 

What drivers are you using ?

And how did you disabled VSYNC ? With Rivatuner ?

 

Game of the Year so far for me ,forget Dead Space ,Far Cry2 or Red Alert 3 ,if you are gonna buy a game ,buy this one !

 

lol my monitor native res is 1440x900 it's a 19" samsung widescreen lcd monitor, i really don't need more, infact if i can i'll stick to 19" monitors for life.

anyway that's very odd, i really don't know what else to say, if Fraps shows 100fps ingame but benchmark shows 65, must be Vista + FO3 + Fraps issue perhaps.

however as long as your game really feels liek 100fps as reported by Fraps during gameplay and not the benchmark, they you're fine and don't think about it, just enjoy the game and don't waste your time with this.

Catalyst 8.9

i haven't touched Rivatuner since the Geforce3 days, don't need it, my pc works perfectly without additional tweakage software, standard software + stock hardware has never given me a single problem and that's how i'll always do things. yee yee i'm a bit too old fashion but that's me, if it's not broken don't fix it.

how did i disable Vsync?

i disabled it in the ATI CP and in the game options, that's all. :nerd:

Windows XP 64bit.

 

Oops - Iv become addicted to Med-X!!

 

hi people i have just started getting a MAJOR problem i will randomly while being in the Enterprise building get the game crash i get no stutter just a crash were i can do anything except ctrl/alt/del the game


are you getting this

 

ok i TOYED with some stuff and having smoother framerate..same 60 fps but smoother.

And TOy with ur own risk boys

in FALLOUT3.INI

it was 0, i made it 60


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In RendererInfo.txt

it was

i changed to

i dont know which helped it..

iFPSClamp=60 or Transparency MS : yes

i am always using AA 2x, AF15x

Pls advice me if iam doing something wrong..thank you.

 

hi can someone please tell me where the config file is so i can change settings i bought the game via steam so the install file for fallout 3 is in the steam folder not sure if this makes a difference

 

Yeah, it's completely smooth so I'm just gonna get on with playing

Mr.Bigtime: You can also turn msaa on from the launcher menu, also that ifps at 0 should mean it's off.


Damian: Indoor crashes can be caused by the game trying to save, there's alot about that earlier in the thread in a post by Anthraxpants.

 

it is in the My Documents, My games, Fallout3 folder..but BACKUP them before toying


and UPDATE!!!:

that iFPSClamp=60 i think, slows down game TIME when it stresses..i mean..when tehre r too many stressing objects on screen, game time slows down..ahahah..so it gives u smooth game play...in my opinion it is a good trick..and not ruins a RPG..if this was Quake 3, it will indeed ruin but, this is already slow game.

But, i will make it 0 again

 

Thanks

 

Anyone been to Rivet city? Made me realize this game could use a MASSIVE texture-overhaul. They weren't very top-notch, but not too bad either. But the walls of the carrier look like 128x128 textures last seen in the 3Dfx days...........

 

so turning off auto save will solve the problem, thanks will trst tonight

 

Enyone knows the best and easy way to get Rivet Sity??

I have two companions so it is hard to keep them alive lol

 

did u figure out that some of the in game musics r CRYSIS, iam pretty sure..i am not talking about RADIO musics..normal musics..fgs, becareful and u will listen to them

 

The ambient music doesn't sound like crysis to me.

 

FIXES FOR SOME OF THE CRASHES:

reportedly some of the crashes can be fixed by adding fallout3.exe to ffdshow video and audio decoders exclusion list("don't use ffdshow in:" option in configuration).
I can confirm that. It fixed those rare crashes on starting and exiting game. Now it's very stable.

Another possible fix is to use no-dvd cracked exe from Reloaded(can be downloaded from gamecopyworld).
it's the same exe, but with removed securomn and dvd-check.
works beautifully.

 

might seem a silly question to some but how do you contract radiation posioning i have to get 200 rads not sure how to do this havent read the manual as i bought this off steam?

 

stand in the river water for example you will see a red text on the upper part of the screen saying how many rads you get per second.
or "pray" for the atomic bomb at megaton since it's probably here where you got the quest anyway.