Fallout 3: Completely Different Freezing Issues!!??!!

I know a lot of people have had freezing problems, but none of the boards describe the problem that I have.

[PROBLEM]
The game runs smoothly most of the time, regardless of the video settings I use, except at random times, (indoors or outdoors, looking at PIP or even VATS) the game will freeze. But only for 6 seconds, and always 6 seconds. Then play always resumes to normal for a few more minutes (or a few more seconds), and it freezes again. This seems to happen more often the longer I play.

[WHAT I'VE TRIED]
Following fixes from some other posts, I've added Fallout 3 to ffdshow's exceptions, and when that didn't work, I removed the K-Lite codecs altogether. Still freezes.

I've installed the latest video card drivers too btw, and drive indexing is off as well.

Anyone have the same/similar problem? Anyone have a solution?
Thanks,
-Tenrandomdigits-



System Specs:
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Windows XP SP2
Intel Core2 6300 @ 1.86GHz
3 GB RAM
nVidia 8500 GT 512MB
Realtek Integrated Sound Fallout 3: Completely Different Freezing Issues!!??!!
common issue I think (Im having a similar experience). So I would just play with it till bethesda releases a patch to fix it. At least I can play with it, idk if you can :/Fallout 3: Completely Different Freezing Issues!!??!!
Does this freezing happen with other games? Or just fallout3? Try some other games with high end 3D graphics.
What resolution are you playing on? if you are gaming on 1920x1200 then trying lowering the res and see what happens.
game is crashing..after 5-10min...i did the codec thing...but it doesnt work...we need a quickfix from fl3 team,
I had another problem,while quick saving it crashed to desktop,started game again and the save files were all gone except when you first come out the vault autosave....thought i was going to cry,luckily there was a backup in the save games folder....
Got the answer from an Oblivion forum. It turned out to be Vodei player. Uninstalled it and it works fine now.
The game is pretty buggy.I have had VATs lock up on me, casuing the game to freeze, other friends have had saves been corrupted.
I see you fixed your problem already but i'll post my small trial and error and solution that worked for me to help others, I had stuttering problems that felt like framerate problems but I was always above 40FPS, I also had freezing issues that seemed to occur at random. I read in the official forums a suggestion to force Vsync off in the driver setting and that did fix the stuttering problem for me but the freezing still occured and everytime I used VATS I blue screened.So that didn't work out for me but maybe some of you can try it. The newest drivers on the Nvidia website didn't work for me either so I decided to try some beta drivers 180.43 which fixed all of the problems for me and the game run perfectly fine, no stuttering or freezing. For ATI users best thing I can say is get the latest drivers, but I hope this helps.