Fallout 3 running badly after reinstall

By TogaForComfort
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Hi All.

I decided that I had had enough of the TV Pack on Vista and reinstalled my machine today.

After rebuilding the machine I installed Fallout 3 copied over my save games and went to play. I noticed there was no music on the title screen but thought nothing of it. then I noticed the title screen was running slowly. to the point that it takes about ten seconds to register I have pressed a key and move to a different option. If I actually get it to load a game up it is like watching a slideshow.

Fallout was the first gae I installed. I have also installed, GOW, Far Cry 2, FEAR and Crysis, which all run fine.

A little Googling lead me to a discussion on the Nvidia forums describing how the latest drivers had caused a few people to experience something like what I was seeing.

Sure enough I had installed the latest drivers when I was previously using the newest betas which are a month or so older.

Uninstalled the drivers and installed the betas. Still the same.

I have checked and updated every driver on my system but still have the same issues.

Any Ideas?

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TogaForComfort

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Make sure you completely uninstalled the older drivers, could be that the drivers are conflicting, hense why your not getting the same performance that you were with the beta's.

Yeah, I had just read a post a few below mine with a link to a driver cleaner. Cleaned out the chipset and card drivers and reinstalled, but still no luck :(

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