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Fallout 3 - Texture Problem?

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I made a post about this in the official Bethesda forums a few years ago and got absolutely no response. If you're thinking, "Wow, you must really be patient", no...I just found something else to do. :laugh:

I started up Fallout 3 one day and it looked like this:

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As far as I can remember, I didn't make any significant system changes prior to this happening. I tried to force application settings in the Catalyst Control Center, but that didn't help. Since I did not (and still don't) have a certain idea of what the problem was, I was just going down the list.

Zoning into a different area didn't help. No matter where I went, it was like a massive jar of vaseline was detonated.
 
Seems Borderlands !

I hate Borderlands cartoon childish graphics !

Sorry cant help you but this seems a drivers problem to me.

Try with another Graphics card drivers.
 
For the HD 4870, Catalyst 10.10 or 10.11 should work. Also, check the ingame graphics settings.
 
I don't have it installed right now, so I'll have to check on all that.

I do remember when it was installed and I was having this issue that the in-game settings were all the same and if I thought they weren't, I messed around them until I was certain I tried each setting.

When you say 10.10/.11 should work, are you talking about rolling back the drivers? I'm using Legacy 13.1 now and I'm inclined to believe going back to 10.10/.11 would end up in a major headache. I also want to add here that at the time I was playing this, I don't believe I updated Catalyst at all (which I would note as a significant system change), so I wouldn't think of that as the source of the issue.

I'm hoping whatever it is didn't corrupt the save files. Bethesda seems to be well-known for not handling them all that well.
 
Sorry, I expressed myself badly I think. I remember those cat versions as working well with the games I played on my HD 4850 (not F3, btw). The later legacy drivers did not quite bring improvements, I actually got problems in fact. But than again, the GPU and or VRAm of my card started to give issues perhaps (I got errors in the OCCT GPU testing tool, so in my case the cause might have been hardware-like).

BTW, how do other games work for you?
 
Chevalr1c said:
Sorry, I expressed myself badly I think. I remember those cat versions as working well with the games I played on my HD 4850 (not F3, btw). The later legacy drivers did not quite bring improvements, I actually got problems in fact. But than again, the GPU and or VRAm of my card started to give issues perhaps (I got errors in the OCCT GPU testing tool, so in my case the cause might have been hardware-like).

BTW, how do other games work for you?
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Other games work fine, be they older or newer. I'm probably going to reinstall F3 in the near future to see how things are now that I've made a bunch of changes (hardware, OS); I just wish I could dodge installing Games for Windows Live. I know it's not a hardware issue.
 
Last time I played FO3 was on Windows XP with a 4850.
If anything this would be a mip map detail level set on low which would be the texture filtering options.
 
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