Usually yes. Given the issues people are having I dont see as they did any. (more likely they were not given enough time to do it. Executives dont like missing Pre-Christmas release dates. The Ultima X mess comes to mind)

It's obvious their QA is between poor and nonexistent. This a great game, don't get me wrong. But it's an obvious cash in on the franchise, as well as the GameBryo engine and build. Aside from production values such as the story and voice acting, I'm sure minimal resources were spent in the making of this game. The music rights are practically free considering the era it comes from.

Blade was saying it doesn't take much time to post a heads up on this forum not it doesn't take much time to patch a game.

Thank you for making the effort to reply, however I would like to point out that other game creators like the creators of Dragon-age were very hands on with there bugs and gave us daily updates on what they were able to fix or could not fix, and in the end this worked very well for them.

Youll have a lot less anger customers spamming forum making your company look bad with bad reviews, and I'll tell you consumers now days listen to other consumers long before they listen to news sites like ign. The first thing I do is go check forums like gamefaqs see every one bashing the game because its unplayable come here see that there's a huge lack of communication and that we may never see a fix to he majority of the problems or at least think that do to lack of communication and then I don't buy the game.


This is easly prevented by talking with your customers a quick 5 minute post once a day saying hey we've got it fixed ed-e shouldn't be disappearing any more give us a week to push it live. or anything for that matter!

That's why I asked. I have no idea if this is a great game or not. At the moment, it is eating hard drive space and the box and strat guide is making a fine paper weight.

At this point it is not patience. That is what we had waiting for the games release. Right now it is tolerance. We are tolerating the fact that his game was not properly put through a Beta test and was not debuged correctly before it's release. However, since the options are either throw the game away or hope for a cure to the games problems, we tolerate the fact that Bethesda screwed this up severely and hope that the problems will be resolved before we loose faith in the company as this event is going to be remembered the next game that is released.

We do appreciate the response. We hope the teams will have the problems fixed soon. In the mean time, I don't know about my other frustrated gamers but I have other games I haven't played yet. With luck, it will be fixed by the time I am done with the next game on my list (I think that's Lunar Silver star Harmony. I had a good summer for used game sales

Fallout 3 Was Released October 10th 2008
The First Patch For Fallout 3 Was December 15th 2008
If That Gives You Any Idea On How Long It Will Probably Take.

Why opening threads like this? The current status is: patches are being worked on.
You can't play. I understand. Solve the problem doing something else (like getting a job) and the time will pass more quickly.

Some of us buy games to escape the stress of our jobs. Broken games don't alleviate much.

Playing with females escape stress, not videogames.
It is known that playing videogames increase stress, instead. So my previous advice is still valid: do something else.
Patches are being worked on, so, unless you report some problems in a useful manner, threads like this won't help the situation and don't solve your problems. I understand it's frustrating, but patience is needed.

^this

what a noob

Yes but living with females is a whole other level of stress which brings us back to PC games.

I know the feeling... :X

Actually it does. Thank You.



It really isn't even this. I am a game collector. I have a little over a thousand games scattered between Pong era systems to modern gaming. I always have other games I can play to relieve stress or just entertain. My objection is paying 50 USD for a game that was not functioning which is something that happens only about 1 in every 50 pc games I have bought and even then, I can usually get the game to at least be playable which I can't with this one (I timed how long it took to walk from the Doctor to the Saloon, took me nearly 10 minutes due to lag and FPS drops.)



This kind of statement confuses me. I can't play it, hence why I am here. He obviously can play it and came into this section of the forums only to insult and curse....why?



You have a point here. Perhaps this will help,

the PC is a Quad Core I7 800 series chip-set with 1.73GHZ per chip and 3GHZ when I push them.
The video card is a GTX 260M with Direct X11
I run 8GB or ram using the new 1333MHZ model
The OS is windows 7 64 bit

Now I was told the problem involves an incompatibility with the direct X 11 (Hence why that .dll fix works for many) However I have Fallout 3 on this machine and minus the occasional lock up when I play Mothership Zeta, It gives no problems on it. I did try resetting the Direct X controls to manual, I tried running it through Windows XP on a partitioned drive, I tired the .dll fix, toggle emotions, and putting the video card to max performance all of which failed to make any noticeable difference.

The only success I had was I ran the game on my older computer Which is a Dual Core (First Generation) with a old ATI 1400 Mobile in her and Windows XP. That one ran the game fairly smoothly but it crashed every few minutes making it still unplayable (Though I was able to see the Doctor's words match his face movements at least). Now this may indicate that the problem for me is not the video card but rather incompatibilities in the changes made to the game engine with more modern machines. (The crashes on the old machine I attribute more to Steam then anything else because all games that ran through Steam crash all that computer all the time including the simple ones like Portal).

I have also noticed the game seems to have a taxation limit built into it. The game never utilizes more then 2 cores (Nor does it tax them to maximum performance) and I can't seem to figure out which ini file controls that. It also will not take more then 3 GB of the memory even in Ultra mode. Again if this can be fixed, it might fix some of the problems.

Has anyone else noticed these things or run scans of computer power usage when the game is running?

Please Mr. Bethesda Man, please tell them guys to fix the audio problems (the sound lag of the guns and voices)