that number interests me, 35 hours. I'm having same issues after 34 hours few minutes right today, and before that too days ago!!speckledjim wrote:So I have been playing fallout 3 for a while now. And suddenly it starts to crash. On my save I have played 35 hours without problems at all. And all of a sudden this happens.
This happened the first time when I traveled to Rivet city. I was doing the quest where you put explosive collars on people. And when I go out again the game crashes either on the loading screen, or it happens after 10 sec-3 min in the wasteland. If I go back to earlier saves this doesn't happen, but after some time it will either way. I'm not even sure what triggers the crashes
I've been a whole day saving new savegames each on a new slot (after restarting to play from level 6 or so) and that fixed "apparently" the crashes ... but they are back now after 34-35 hours ...I have 4 new followers mods (Kelsey, Brianna, Slave Raider and Bittercup) and 2 or 3 new cells-areas mods installed, the rest only outfits and dialog mods ... and I don't have the unofficial patch or Broken Steel, only Free Play after MQ mod.
I'm certain that new areas cause trouble for sure, specially if saving in them or near them (I disabled autosave on travel and on wait), saving far from them helped me a lot but still looks like savegames corrupt progressively the more you play ...
and yes, forcing followers wait or chill out before entering new cells or conflictive areas helps indeed. I'm not sure about Rivet city problem, I have crashes anywhere once a savegame is "corrupted" or conflictive (more in Megaton if you ask me). Sometimes I just delete the savegame and replay to resave and try ... which makes me play twice same things!!
glitchy games ... and mods ... anyway is fun
ah almost forgot? so, sure you don't have any mods? just unofficial patch?
