Fallout 3 question

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I've been replaying Fallout 3 and I keep seeing military checkpoints in game. There's a military truck and then a sign about radiation. They seem to be in a wide permiter around Vault 87. One that I can remember is near Smith Casey's garage with a Sentry bot and a tent. Did anyone remember any in game explanation? I know that at the Germantown jail the, presumably, National Guard set up aid stations, so maybe this was from the same postwar response? The only other thing I can figure is that the FEV experiments were already being run at Vault 87 before the war and started leaking radiation.

 

[Wes R]

The FEV experiments did start before the war but just barely by the sounds of the records they found. I think the random checkpoints, as they are all over the place, were signs that the military survived for a short while before everything totally collapsed because look at all the military vehicles near the toxic waste dump you go past. i think there was an attempt to clean up and by the records at the police station tent area it took more than one day for the bombs to fall.

 

[Krel]

There is a checkpoint on the other side of the hill behind the entrance to Vault 101.

David.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

That's what I was thinking. I don't know if I'd be out trying to clean up until I was sure the bombing was over though...

 

[Solo4114]

Are you playing on the Xbox or a PC?

 

[Jeyl]

God, I wish I could play this game on my Mac. PS3 is ok, but mods are a different beast entirely.

 

[Solo4114]

Yeah, I want to get it for PC (when my new computer shows up, anyway), but I've heard conflicting things about how it runs on Win 7. I purposely held off on buying it for X360 because I wanted to use mods.

 

[MML]

Yeah, I want to get it for PC (when my new computer shows up, anyway), but I've heard conflicting things about how it runs on Win 7. I purposely held off on buying it for X360 because I wanted to use mods.

I've been running it on Win 7 for the last couple of months and it's perfectly fine!
There is one issue with random crashing, but it's more to do with multi core processors, a fix for it can be found here:
Treble Click: Fallout 3 crash fix

 

[Solo4114]

Ah, well, I'm going to have a multi-core (Core i7-930) processor, so I'll have to try that tip. I hear that only works with the base game, though, andt hat there's no similar fix for the DLC.

 

[burningman]

God, I wish I could play this game on my Mac. PS3 is ok, but mods are a different beast entirely.

Keep an eye out on Steam. Valve is fast tracking alot of the games for Mac.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

PC version here and on Win7 64bit. I had some crashing until I set it to XP SP2 compatibility. There's still some weird thing going on with GNR where the songs sound distorted. I think it's something with the codec or something.