This is supposed to be a troubleshooting thread but I'm posting another fix. Been playing FO3 for a couple weeks now, three different games/characters. Other day, I realized it's been a while since the game CTD'd, and this includes over an hour of play in some cases.
It's because (and I know this sounds really obvious) I took the time to clean the DLC: Broken Steel, The Pitt.esm, and so on. All these years, all five of Fallout 3's DLC had undeleted references and identical to masters, whatever they're called. When rebuilding FO3 a few weeks back, I made sure to get all of these .esms clean.
I've tried getting this done in the past, unsuccessfully.
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I think the difference this time is I used an
older version of FO3Edit to clean: Version 3.1.2 this time. I'd been using 4_0 in the past, which for whatever reason wasn't getting the job done, so I've been playing dirty all these years. Anyway, in the past my habit while gaming has been to save/exit/reload the game every 20 minutes or so, which was my way of avoiding the sure-to-come CTD. Now my habit's going to change to gaming as long as I can, just to see if a CTD
occurs.
Hope this helps.
This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 23 2024, 12:13 PM