Fallout 3 - Display is Blank / Black but I hear sound?

Help please has anyone else had this problem? My game arrived today. I installed it and as soon as the game starts ie new game goes through the intro and in to the game and then all i can hear is audio but the display is just blank/black. I have tried running the game on diffeent res and different settings - high and low but no difference. I always have to ctrl/alt/del out of the game. my spec: pentium dual core e1280 @2GHz - 2GB Ram - Nvidia 7950GT 512MB with 178.24 Drivers Fallout 3 - Display is Blank / Black but I hear sound?
You're not only one having problems with this game.. there are many known issues. wait for patchFallout 3 - Display is Blank / Black but I hear sound?
man this is one of the worst ever games for tech issues. Such a disapointment. I solved my little problem by Alt Tabbing in and out of the game. I had to do that around 5 times while I was in the vault..and then as I was aproaching the last vault door the game CTD! Grrr
Yes, a dissapointing amount of tech issues... hopefully the patch fixes them... I was getting mini pauses every soo often (too often), which turned out to be ffdshow, but now the game is locking up every 15 minutes... I think it might actually be xfire as it seems to have helped a lot, I didnt play a real long time after turning it off so I don't know yet... I really like it , but this is the worst as far as bugs/tech issues I have seen in a long time. :(
ok i just wated a whole evening trying to get this working and no luck. I am defo waiting for a patch or perhaps I'll send it the game back. I used to enjoy (in a sadistic way) trying to install/uninstall drivers and games and troubleshooting the ins and outs of Windows back in the day - but I have not got that sort of time and willing any more. Most games (apart from STALKER) have worked perfectly for me in recent years. I have been playing Far Cry 2 for the last week with no probs what so ever. This Fallout 3 is really a shoddy effort.
i cant believe the amount of issues it has for such a big game
Anyone else find xfire messing things up? Mine crashes within minutes with it running (usually) I just tried without it for aound an hour with no crashes except when I tried to go into Live then canceled when it asked for the key.
[QUOTE=''bbqbod'']Help please has anyone else had this problem? My game arrived today. I installed it and as soon as the game starts ie new game goes through the intro and in to the game and then all i can hear is audio but the display is just blank/black. I have tried running the game on diffeent res and different settings - high and low but no difference. I always have to ctrl/alt/del out of the game. my spec: pentium dual core e1280 @2GHz - 2GB Ram - Nvidia 7950GT 512MB with 178.24 Drivers [/QUOTE]Sounds like you got a ''out of frequency range'' error. Do you have the latest drivers?
yeah, I have the latest drivers from Nvidia - 178.24 version.