Why fallout 3 so buggy?

[RPD]

I must have been lucky, FO3 never crashed on my Win7 machine, but a friend could never get past like 2 minutes on a Vista one. This was a few years ago.

 

[Rifter]

always ran fine for me. I mean it had a few crashes like maybe 2 or 3 but i have over 100 hours into it so thats pretty normal. Never understood why so many people had issues with it.

 

[wuliheron]

always ran fine for me. I mean it had a few crashes like maybe 2 or 3 but i have over 100 hours into it so thats pretty normal. Never understood why so many people had issues with it.

Duh, maybe because all computers are different?

 

[Rifter]

Duh, maybe because all computers are different?

yeah but ive ran it over 3 completly differnt desktop builds and my laptop and none were unstable. some vista some win 7.

 

[wuliheron]

yeah but ive ran it over 3 completly differnt desktop builds and my laptop and none were unstable. some vista some win 7.

Somebody has win the lottery, but clearly your experience is not terribly common.

 

[Mem]

I must have been lucky, FO3 never crashed on my Win7 machine, but a friend could never get past like 2 minutes on a Vista one. This was a few years ago.

So far Fallout 3 has crashed 4 or 5 times now on my Win7 x64 and I'm not even halfway through the game ,its random and I'll have to say no where near as stable as New Vegas IMHO,this is on the same PC with latest drivers etc and nothing overclocked(game is fully patched)...I don't know if its a memory link or something else,however the crashes seem to be quite far apart so I don't know what to make of it,for the record Witcher 2 only crashed once before any patches throughout the entire game,same with Dragon Age 2.

End of the day we all have games that are not as stable as other games we own.

I guess I should be lucky its playable when others can't even play the game :hmm:

 

[riteshshergill]

Fallout is bad.. really really bad.. gameplay suxxx, grafix are dated.. dunno y people are liking it..

 

[Sulaco]

Fallout is bad.. really really bad.. gameplay suxxx, grafix are dated.. dunno y people are liking it..

...strange people, adults.

 

[sandorski]

FO3 and NV are probably the most buggy Games I have, but that said I really haven't had the horrible experience as others have. Either will crash occasionally, but it's rare. I haven't done anything to limit Cores and have been using Win7 x64.

Make sure you have GFWL Updated as it can cause problems for numerous games. I had to go to MS website and Download/Manual Install it.

 

[pathos]

Pretty much all of Bethesda's games/dlc are buggy.

pretty much this. Bethesda has been making buggy games since the dawn of time.

Anyone who played Daggerfall, Morrowind, Or Oblivion would tell you that.

Come to think of that, I don't remember Arena being buggy. But, that was a long time ago.

 

[Dankk]

Elder Scrolls V is dumping it for the Creation Engine, which Bethesda developed internally. Hopefully it's better.

True, they are finally making a new engine for Skyrim. But will it be any better than Gamebryo? Let's not cross our fingers. Remember: It's still a Bethesda game. Come hell or high water, they are determined to release the game on time, no matter how many bugs there are, no matter how unstable or how unoptimized the engine is. That's just what they do. They're gonna work as hard as they can up until release day, do a sloppy job, and release an unfinished product. Yeah, it's a NEW engine, but unfortunately we can't say if it won't be just as bad as the old one. /2cents

As for Fallout 3... it runs ok on my machine for the most part, but there are still those "Fallout 3 has stopped working" type crashes. Also, I'm one of those OCD people who is obsessed about keeping their PC optomized, not having unecessary programs installed, always keeping up-to-date, among other things. So yeah. Even those with "perfect computers" still experience crashes with Fallout 3 I think.

 

[ParadoxDenmark]

pretty much this. Bethesda has been making buggy games since the dawn of time.

Anyone who played Daggerfall, Morrowind, Or Oblivion would tell you that.

Come to think of that, I don't remember Arena being buggy. But, that was a long time ago.

I remember Daggerfall. If I got lost in a dungeon, I'd intentionally fall through the floor (door frames were perfect for this) and then cast Levitate to fly around outside, until I figured out where the objective was located

Still spent hundreds of hours with Daggerfall.

 

[lord_emperor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ

Really, no words can describe.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Do not, I repeat, do not slander retarded monkey's like that again.

lulz.

@ibex333: I have only played FO:NV on the PS3, but it's buggy on that... and that's a closed system with regard to drivers...

 

[gothamhunter]

I've played FO, FO:NV, and Oblivion and have not had 1 glitch/bug unless it was

A: Intentionally done
B: Due to added mods

 

[pathos]

I remember Daggerfall. If I got lost in a dungeon, I'd intentionally fall through the floor (door frames were perfect for this) and then cast Levitate to fly around outside, until I figured out where the objective was located

Still spent hundreds of hours with Daggerfall.

Can't say I wasn't guilty of that.

My favorite was exploiting the fact the shelves holding gear in shops had double the inventory, if you clicked on a certain place on the shelf.

1 night of spending the night robbing every equiptment store blind (at double the loot for each shop) and I'd have more money then I could spend the entire game

Well, it would actually take 2 nights. First night I'd be walking with only my own inventory, so I couldn't hold to much. Second night i'd have bought a horse and cart with the first nights proceeds, just to make sure I could hold it all

 

[zinfamous]

Not true.

Fallout 3 is not buggy at all. It's just you and a few others like you. I played Fallout 3 a week after release date and it maybe crashed only a few times in several months.

it's like when my brother took his iPhone into AT&T and after looking at the firmware, they claimed, "Wow! You've only dropped 27% of your calls. That's fantastic!"



seriously, true story.