I really enjoy playing Bethesda’s Fallout 3 role playing game for Windows. One thing I don’t enjoy about it, however, is the rampant bugs associated with the game. There is already one official patch released for it, and some community-generated fixes as well for audio and video issues.

Unfortunately, I have a reoccurring graphics problem. Everything is fine when I play the game for the first time after a fresh start. The problems show up when I quit and start the game again later. I have graphics “tearing” and corrupted pixels all over the screen.

At first I thought this was due to outdated drivers, so I made sure I had the latest final drivers from Nvidia, and the latest drivers for my motherboard. I also made sure my Windows Vista operating system was up to date. No dice.
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I used to run my main computer 24/7 when I worked from home. I was either on it all the time, or would use it for a quick fact-finding mission on Wikipedia or IMDB. I expect computer components to fail; there are some wear items like the hard drive that will eventually conk out on you. My current computer, Crunk, was a Frankenstein of new parts and parts from a machine I built almost three years ago.

Once I started working at a “real job” I started turning my computer off every morning to save power. As they say, “no good deed goes unpunished.”
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