Posted May 13, 2020
Hi.
Both fallout 1 and 2 hardcrash my pc, usually when im trading with somebody.
I tried a lot of things: reinstalling game, running in various hi-res states (bits, resolution, scaling, windowed or not).
Windows event log shows kernel-power error and nothing else except for following 'system was shutdown unexpectedly' with no additional info.
It happens only in fallout 1 and 2, at seemingly random states of game but for sure one happens when bartering with npc.
I tried changing hires ini and sfall ini to turn off various options that might change default interface rendering, tried turning off scrolling in invetory, fixing hitboxes etc.
I dont know what to do, there has to be some fix but i cant find anything except for old thread reddit.com/r/classicfallout/comments/d8fe6a/fallout_1_crashes_and_reboots_whole_pc/
with no answer of course.
fallout.exe by default gets one cpu core, i played without background applications running, i turned off AV softvare to check out, i double checked if directplay is installed in system components.
I think r hires patch is responsible for crashing the game.
My specs: windows 10 1909, ryzen 1700x, ddr4 ram, rx 480 with 20.2.2 driver. If its a harware problem its extremely specific because other applications and 2d games work perfectly fine.
upd: the only thing that actually helped me is getting a VM and running game there.Even then it requires some tinkering with ini files. So far no crashes in win xp virtual machine, but game froze once in battle.
Both fallout 1 and 2 hardcrash my pc, usually when im trading with somebody.
I tried a lot of things: reinstalling game, running in various hi-res states (bits, resolution, scaling, windowed or not).
Windows event log shows kernel-power error and nothing else except for following 'system was shutdown unexpectedly' with no additional info.
It happens only in fallout 1 and 2, at seemingly random states of game but for sure one happens when bartering with npc.
I tried changing hires ini and sfall ini to turn off various options that might change default interface rendering, tried turning off scrolling in invetory, fixing hitboxes etc.
I dont know what to do, there has to be some fix but i cant find anything except for old thread reddit.com/r/classicfallout/comments/d8fe6a/fallout_1_crashes_and_reboots_whole_pc/
with no answer of course.
fallout.exe by default gets one cpu core, i played without background applications running, i turned off AV softvare to check out, i double checked if directplay is installed in system components.
I think r hires patch is responsible for crashing the game.
My specs: windows 10 1909, ryzen 1700x, ddr4 ram, rx 480 with 20.2.2 driver. If its a harware problem its extremely specific because other applications and 2d games work perfectly fine.
upd: the only thing that actually helped me is getting a VM and running game there.Even then it requires some tinkering with ini files. So far no crashes in win xp virtual machine, but game froze once in battle.
Post edited May 13, 2020 by Gsom900