Hey i just wondered are other people getting issues with this game crashing alot. Im playing the 360 Version UK release and its locking up on a regular basis. Xbox is fine with no red rings at any point.

just wondered if this was a problem other people were having?

plays fine here

I actually had it lock up twice with an Xbox that has given me zero issues... if it is the case I'm sure they'll patch it.

I managed to play it for about 3 hours ok then it just crashes frequently now. that led me to think it could be a heat issue but it still crashes after hours of console downtime. Hope a patch is issues. i wonder if its just an issue with some UK versions of the game maybe. The internet being the internet i would of thought any widespread issues would of been common knowledge by now

"plays fine here

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no crashes here.. Only crashes when i exit the game completely.

"no crashes here.. Only crashes when i exit the game completely."

It has never locked up for me so far. This is after playing 10+ hours. The only problems I have had are disc reading issues, but I believe my dying 360 is at fault there.

No problems with mine.

none here.

I've had it lock up three times or so on the PC version. That was all on the first day and it hasn't happened since (which is weird because I didn't patch it).

My 360 copy crashed four times...before even getting out of the vault. 

I just locked up for the first time about an hour ago, but that wasn't too big a deal.

My friend said his crashes a lot on PC, but I 've had no problem with it, as far as 360 goes the only people I know that have it, haven't had a problem with it. It seems the few that are though is getting around though, I'd imagine Bethesda will put out a patch soon.

It's locked up about 3 times for me now, and it crashes quite frequently when I exit the game.

Just had one crash about an hour ago. But everything has been running pretty smoothly so far.

In the PC version, the bastard thing keeps crashing for me.

I get very few crashes with the pc version (about 5 total), but it does crash at the oddest places with mine.

well i think the problems ive had were the prelude to some RROD as mine is now red lighting. Same thing happened last year with gears. Gears killed my last console and i think fallouts killed this console. Its wierd tho as my console boots up fine but it is displaying the 3 red lights

crashed on me 6 times in 32 hours of gameplay

no crashes yet for me.

PC VERSION: I've had it crash for me every time I quit out of the game, and for some reason at some other points within the game. I have to save and save frequently, but otherwise I like the game. Bethesda has got to patch this thing because although I don't mind saving then crashing, then loading, rinse, repeat, some people won't and it'll cost them. It's weird though, the game runs great on my 3 year old system, besides just out-of-nowhere crashes. *sighs*

My Xbox 360 version crashed the first time I got to The Brass Lantern at Megaton and I thought ohh shit here we go. But *touch wood* it has not done it since and I'm about 11 hours in. Still I save the game fairly consistently now just in case

I have experinced one or two freezes they have all happend after fast travveling to a location but concidering the number of hours i have played this game it hasnt really botherd me a patch would be nice though.

I stopped playing last night because the game froze on me, I'm playing it on the 360. I had just killed a super mutant and as he began to slide down a hill the game froze. I've played for about 8 hours so far, and that was the first time it froze.

Well i repaired my console using the xclamp mod and she now runs like a beauty but im still getting fallout related crases.  now it crashes when i try to enter a specific building (wont say what due to spoilers) but the game runs and plays fine other than that. annoyingly i HAVE to enter this building to continue the game.

Mine did it once, but it hasn't happened since then.

Crashes all the time on my new Quad core PC running Vista 64 bit with 6 GB of memory. What does Bethesda advise? Run it on one core - didn't help, still crashes. Sometimes I can play for 30 minutes without a problem other times 30 seconds and down for the count. I have tried every fix imaginable and the game still crashes.

It freezes on me occasionally. I've been playing the game for about a week and it's frozen maybe three times.

"Mine did it once, but it hasn't happened since then."

It seems the farther you are into the game the more frequent the crashes. Like on my level 1 character, crashes are ultra rare, but on my 16 they're a tad too common...

I'm not entirely surprised that people are having issues with the game crashing.  Both Morrowind and Oblivion gave me a lot of problems (morrowind in particular), and I'm guessing it may be something of a trend in Bethesda games.  I don't think that it's necessarily because Bethesda is bad at making games, just that when you've got a game of the scale and substance of Fallout3 (or oblivion/morrowind) some bugs are going to work their way in there that may get overlooked in the review process.
I could be wrong about this but it's just my guess.

I have played it for about 40+ hours, 1 crash.

I've played around 15 hours and it has only crashed once, PC by the way....

My 360 version kept freezing on a specific loading screen late in the game, so I had to load a save from a few hours prior to that point. I think it froze once or twice out in the wasteland. Uncool, but not totally unexpected, as I had a similar experience with Oblivion.

It's been fine on my latest 360, but I did have increasingly frequent crash issues with Oblivion....

Ive not had that much trouble. There was only one time where I left a building and all the textures on the left side of the screen (looking eerily similer to a starfox ship model) turned various shades of brown, then an man with an invisable torso started shooting me then then the game froze and I had to reset the system. Only one time so far though.

Not once in all the hours I've played it on the 360.  Surpising to me as disk read errors are getting routine.  Time to buy a back-up system again...sigh.

It crashed on me once, thus far ( PS3 version). I've seen small glitches here and there, but I've been pretty lucky up to this point.

360 Version: I have complited the game and thort I did ok for myself with no problems. I have started agen and knowing what I did about the game I set out to get the Ranger Combat Armor (as we all know it ROCKS). So I am trying to continue with the story and I have spoken to Dr. Lie (for the first time) and she has told me where my Dad is. I set of to the momorial tho when I get close it freezes, the closest I have got is just outside and I have killed ONE mutie tho normaly I fast travel to the boat place (can't remmember the name ATM) I get to the statue at the bottom of the hill. I have tried going other ways yet is still messes up. I hope they fix it soon as I am doing alot better than the first time ;-p

I've had 4 crashes to desktop on my VIsta PC, although I run 4 user accounts on it and once and in a while 1 of them is not logged off.

However I've had ZERO crashes w/ Bioshock on the same pC

Yeah mine crashed alot.  Way more than average for my other games.  That problem fixed itself once I downloaded to the HDD>

I just reached a point where the game freezes about one second after I load my save game, thus halting all further progress. Needless to say, I'm quite pissed, and would like them to fix it immediately.

Its frozen on me alot when I use the railway rifle in VATS. Other than that, no crashes.

i just installed PC patch 1 a couple days ago, no crashes since but i havent been playing games much this week so the sample size is too small

I never experienced any crashes with the 360 version

I've been trying to play lately but keep running into a random lock up that requires me to restart my 360. Had the same thing happen with Oblivion here and there on my 2nd 360 (on my third now).

I'm not even that far into the game either, when I first got it I didn't much of a problem but this was prior to updating to the latest Wii360 overhaul. No idea if it has anything to do with that, probably not.

I put in about 65 hours total on my 360 version... It froze up on me  5 or 6 times. Although I did get my first RROD about 3 weeks after I started playing.  :(

You can absolutely get freezes from a bad game save too. I have an insane number of saves, over 400. I had one weird glitch where my character ended up halfway under the ground, I could walk around (slowly) but could not jump up out of the mess. Sometimes I would pop out unexpectedly and all would seem normal. But any time I tried to use that save, I got other weird glitches. Boxes I couldn't search, weapons wouldn't shoot, sometimes I'd fall through the ground entirely into empty space with the 3D world above me, and lots of hard freezes.

Save early, save often, and be prepared to go back to a previous save.

"I put in about 65 hours total on my 360 version... It froze up on me  5 or 6 times. Although I did get my first RROD about 3 weeks after I started playing.  :("