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I know I am probably really late to the part, but fallout 3 on windows 7...my word is it awfully buggy.

I've been getting one room at a time through the Reilly's Rangers quest before c-c-c-c-crash. Anyone got any hints for how to fix this? So far I've already tried (and they haven't worked, I just copy pasted the text from the site)

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I'm trying this at the moment, I'll update if it works



So yeah, any help?

Have you tried booting?

I know that atleast new vegas has this memory leak problem that if you play too long the game will crash and if you don't shut down (no sleep mode) and restart it will just get worse.

Not really a fix but restarting isn't that bad.

The steam forums will probably answer your question. I would note however that there is a banner on the game's steam page saying that it doesn't work well with Windows 7. However I just reinstalled the game on my Windows 7 laptop and besides a few crashes (which I've tracked down to weather/item mods) its been running fine. However Bethesda games are well known for being temperamental/ buggy as hell unless you play them with very particular setups.

If you have mods, then remove them all. If you don't install the unofficial patch and the error corrections mod. Failing that backup your saves, start a new character, then jump to the place that you were receiving the crashes. Its been years since I played the series properly, so those are just non specific crash fixes.

What do you mean by one room at a time? Isn't the Statesmen Hotel just three big cells? Do you mean you're crashing repeatedly within the same cell, or even in the same location, or that it happens when you enter a new cell? I don't recall the super mutants in that location having unique IDs, so unless you've got a mod that alters them (ie Marts Mutant Mod, FEV, or a weapon mod) I doubt they're the issue. However if you do have mods installed it could be any one of a ton of issues. If you don't have any mods installed and its happening in a number of locations, both within a single cell and multiple ones, then I expect its either a corrupted save (thus the backup your saves and start a new one suggestion) or a software issue I don't know of.

I literally mean i'll kill the supermutants in one hotel room, try and leave, crash. Reload, kill them again, save, get another room, kill them, crash. It was the worst slugfest ever.

However I haven't had a chance to try my third idea, since, as is always the way, since I posted this it hasn't crashed. Damn game making a fool of me. Crash for 2 days repeatedly then mock me cruelly...