[Timzor]

Looks like the problem was solved. Thanks for all the advice!

Okay, we're all no strangers with Fallout crashing. It's pretty much just a fact of life, and you learn to love quicksaving.

However, lately, it's been crashing my entire computer. I'll just be playing, and with no warning, the screen goes black and my entire computer shuts down. I have it modded pretty heavily, but I've been turning my recent ones off one by one, and it's still crashing. What should I do?

*edit*

I just tried running it completely vanilla, with no mods whatsoever. It still did the same thing after a few minutes. I'm really at a loss, here.

[gsmanners]

Unfortunately, Fallout 3 is also good at killing hardware. My guess is the video card is starting to go dead from overheating. It could also be the RAM, the mobo, or the power supply that's failing so professional help (for your computer) is what you really need at this point.

[tortured Tomato]

I'm with gsmanners. It could be overheating of the cpu or the gpu as well as overclocked hardware, like RAM, GFX, Chip.

[Timzor]

...are you serious? Fallout has BROKEN my computer?

Is there any way to test which of those things you guys mentioned is at fault?

[tortured Tomato]

It doesn't need to be Fallouts fault and this could have various reasons. EG by time the cpu fans might become dusty.
You should check your temperatures by tools like the PC Wizzard or the HW Monitor. They give you severel information about your system.
Give a try

[Timzor]

psyclops, on Nov 8 2009, 07:59 PM, said:

It doesn't need to be Fallouts fault and this could have various reasons. EG by time the cpu fans might become dusty.
You should check your temperatures by tools like the PC Wizzard or the HW Monitor. They give you severel information about your system.
Give a try

Okay, I downloaded it, and I'm seeing all the temperatures. Unfortunately, I don't know what any of it really means.




*edit*

I also downloaded PC Wizard, but again, I don't really know what I'm looking for.

[tortured Tomato]

As far I can see your temperature looks fine and does not exceed normal values. So it's apparently not a cooling problem. But maybe there is someone could confirm this?

Have you updated your drivers and your OS recently?

[Timzor]

Yeah, I checked. Everything seems to be up to date.


Is it possible that it's running at the right temperatures normally, but they would start to go up if I actually started playing?

[tortured Tomato]

Yep, thats pretty much possible. You should check the values under stress.

[Timzor]

psyclops, on Nov 8 2009, 09:00 PM, said:

Yep, thats pretty much possible. You should check the values under stress.

How long should I run the game before checking?