So I've been looking at my backlog of games trying to decide what to play next and I decided that I'd tackle FO3. I put about 13h into it and stopped playing about a year ago. I launch it and now it's running unplayable fast - audio is normal speed but movement and all animations are super accelerated. Think Benny Hill plays FO3. When you talk to someone all of the mouth movements blur by in one second while the audio dialog continues to play.
I saw one thread out there stating that VSYNC off caused this for them - this has no effect on my issue. I have been strictly loading my old save games because I haven't wanted to go through all of the character creation crap... Some combination of settings caused the stutter people have reported, but I remember fixing that early 2009 and never having any game engine problems after that.
FO3 v1.7.0.3 via steam
Q6600G0 stock
BFG GTX260 OC 196.21
Forte v1.1
Vista Ultimate x64
no settings forced by Forceware
1920x1200 4xFSAA 16xAF all settings "Ultra"
Other than the usual hotfixes, upgrades, games that come and go over the last year the only major changes:
I was using a Pipboy HUD mod and FO3 High Definition pack v1 (which I added to v1.4 before the v1.7 upgrade came out) but I have deleted the game and installed fresh from Steam with no improvement.
196.21 has been working great with ME1, L4D, L4D2, the entire FEAR franchise, Batman:AA, MW2 and Call of Juarez, all of which have been played through (and L4D2 continues to the played regularly) since the upgrade to 196.21. I don't like to up/downgrade Forceware willy-nilly when I find something that works and nothing online indicates that 196.21 causes speed problems with FO3 but I may have no other choice to start messing around with Forceware.
Does anyone have any ideas of things I should try?
I saw one thread out there stating that VSYNC off caused this for them - this has no effect on my issue. I have been strictly loading my old save games because I haven't wanted to go through all of the character creation crap... Some combination of settings caused the stutter people have reported, but I remember fixing that early 2009 and never having any game engine problems after that.
FO3 v1.7.0.3 via steam
Q6600G0 stock
BFG GTX260 OC 196.21
Forte v1.1
Vista Ultimate x64
no settings forced by Forceware
1920x1200 4xFSAA 16xAF all settings "Ultra"
Other than the usual hotfixes, upgrades, games that come and go over the last year the only major changes:
- Migrated Audigy 2ZS -> Forte v1.1
- upgraded NV from 190.62 (IIRC) to 196.21
- GFWL is now fully installed because I played Batman:AA but I have now disabled it for FO3 since all of my savegames are local not associated with my Gamertag
I was using a Pipboy HUD mod and FO3 High Definition pack v1 (which I added to v1.4 before the v1.7 upgrade came out) but I have deleted the game and installed fresh from Steam with no improvement.
196.21 has been working great with ME1, L4D, L4D2, the entire FEAR franchise, Batman:AA, MW2 and Call of Juarez, all of which have been played through (and L4D2 continues to the played regularly) since the upgrade to 196.21. I don't like to up/downgrade Forceware willy-nilly when I find something that works and nothing online indicates that 196.21 causes speed problems with FO3 but I may have no other choice to start messing around with Forceware.
Does anyone have any ideas of things I should try?