Fallout 3 help

[Sparton 10]

hey, i got fallout 3 the other day and was playing it all weekend with no problems at all on my new 9800 gt, but about 4 days ago when i tried to play it again it keeps crashing and saying that fallout3.exe has stopped working on the game loading screen, every time. i have overclocked the 9800 but i set it back to stock and it still has the same problem and i've done testing so i am posative the clocks are stable.
i'm running the latest nvidia 178.24 driver and my pc specs are q6600 @ 2.4ghz, 3gb 800 mhz kingston DDR2 ram, GA-P35-DS3 (P35 chipset incase u didn't know ), wd 500 gb sata 2 hdd, and ASUS EN9800 GT @ 700/1750/900 core/shader/mem.
other games eg far cry 2, crysis, ut3, assassins creed and all that work fine, except weneva i exit far cry 2 it says the game has stopped working but that dun bother me cuz its when i exit.

omfg plz help me i really wanna play this i been waiting months and even brought a new gfx card so i cud run it beta, plz plz plz anyone got ideas?

Cheers, matt

 

[CCT]

Post #5 here apparently has the (an?) answer:

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=896220

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Have you tried installing the patch?

 

[Sparton 10]

yer i tried the patch and it did nothing

 

[MetalX]

Reinstall the game perhaps? Update your nVidia Forceware? I believe there is a newer one than 178.24... or at least there is for Vista.

 

[deusofnull]

does it happen in any other games? do you have the newest drivers and such?
best bet is probably just re install and see if it still happens

 

[Sparton 10]

i have just fixed it, if ur using the Asus smartdoctor and gamer osd it seems to make fallout crash, i uninstalled it and now it works great no crashes at all, ever.
Thanks heaps for all the help mates

Cheers matt smile