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alright ill update to the nvidia drive and see if that makes a difference.  i dont really have any bloatware, i mean i just got my n10 a couple days ago and all i did on it was downgrade to xp, update drivers, and intall fallout 3.  And when i try to run fallout 3 i have everything off, textures low.  Its to the point where sometimes i cant see the thing shooting at me because its too far away and my settings wont allow it.  I also just updated to service pack 3 which ive been procrastinating doing, and that didn't make any difference either.  thanks for all the help guys, but i just can't seem to get this to work.

well i downgraded to xp so that kinda got rid of all the crap that was loaded on there already.  I downloaded the newest nvidia drivers and it made a huge difference.  When fallout 3 did its test thing to see what settings to put the game at it picked medium instead of low.  Thats when i knew the new drivers made a difference, however idk if i would be able to play at the setting specified earlier in this thread.  I updated all of my drivers through asus, are there any other drivers that i could download from a different site that may also boost preformance?  also, are there specific computer settings i should be using for maximum preformance?  I mean obviously i need to turn on my overclock and set it into super preformance mode and keep it plugged in, but what about other settings, like the ones in the nvidia control panel?  Any other tips on speezing every last fps i can out of this game will be greatly appreciated as well. 

also guys, thanks so much for helping me out.  I kno ive asked quite a few questions over the past couple days on various threads but i only do so because (obviously im trying to figure out the answer to my question) and because u guys have all been so responsive and nice about it.  In many of the other forums ive been on people just roast noobs for asking stupid questions constantly, making it a not very friendly environemt and almost discouraging people who would get something out of the forum to use it.  This forum has been nothing like that, so thank you guys very much for all of this.

well fallout 3 is actually running really well now but for some reason theres this frame skip that occurs every now and then.  i looked it up cuz i knew i was getting a good enough frame rate and its actually a glitch, it has nothing to do with slow fps.  I tried finding a solution but i hear the solution results in the game going into almost a bullet-time, slow mo.  Does anyone know how to fix this frame skip without this unfortunate side effect because it really does take away from the smoothness of the game.

Well the error just looks like a frame is missing.  Like everything is running really smooth and then stops for like a fraction of a second (like one frame) and goes right back to being smooth untill it does it again.  I'm on my iPod touch right now so I can't post a link to a site that talks about the glitch but if you google "fallout 3 frame skip glitch" or some call it a stutter.  They say you can fix it by editing the .ini file somehow. I think it's something like "ilockfps" or something with fps in it.  I guess what that does is keep the same fps throughout by speeding things up when you fps is over the number and slowing things down when it goes below the number.  The only problem is that this would make the game go into slow motion when ur fps drop too low.  I was just wondering if u guys knew of a better fix.  If you want to see what this problem looks like there is a YouTube video demonstrating it.  I mean the game for me now looks and plays amazingly it's just a shame that Bethesda allowed such a glitch so the game won't run as smooth as it really can on the n10.  Btw this problem even occurs on the best machines getting upwards of 60 fps so this one can't be blamed on the n10s hardware.

No but I think I'm just gunna not worry about it cuz it isn't that noticable and it's not like it makes the game any less fun.

sorry i keep on bringing this up, but, although fallout 3 is running a lot better than when i first started, the game still crawls for me when i get into heavy combat, which is like the most fun parts of the game.  i see all over this forum and others how perfectly fallout 3 runs, but right now i can't say fallout 3 runs anywhere near perfect for me.  i have everything set to absolute lowest.  I changed the fallout3.ini file to get rid of grass completely to boost my fps a little bit.  The only settings i have above minimum are the fade distances for objects, actors, and items, because theres no point in playing the game when i can't even see whose shooting at me, and if i set actor up and leave object low, then i can see people that i shouldn't be able to see because they are actually behind a building that just hasn't appeared on my screan yet.  right now it runs fine when im not in combat, but is very laggy as soon as i have someone shooting at me.  if someone could post a video of this game while in heavy combat on their n10 so i could see how it handles that would be great, because idk if im just expecting more than i can get out of this game on this system.  Like i said i keep hearing how perfect this game runs and the state my game is in is certainly not perfect.  Idk if this helps at all but i tried playing half life 2 and that gets really laggy in fire fights (i heard that this too ran very smoothly), and i was playing counter strike source and i had everything at low setting and was still only getting frame rates in the 30s (i keep hearing of people getting in the 70s on high settings)  Any suggestions on this would be appreciated cuz all i think when i play fallout 3 is how much more fun i could be having with it if i didn't feel so restricted by the framerate.

well when i say laggy i mean that everything slows down or the screen starts jumping around rather than fluid movement.  There are times when i was playing fallout 3 without action at all, and i was getting just above 15 fps and that seemed really smooth.  so no im not asking for over 40 fps but if i could keep it over 10 in combat i would be happy.  I did check my oc and i am deffinitly overclocked.