No, I have neither applications installed. I do however have daemon tools installed, I will remove it and see if it helps. I am also trying to overclock now to help, I was told that the graphics card was too old and outdated and that I should look at one of the GTX200 series

Thank you, I am running TuneUpUtilities along with many other registry cleaners/optimizers. I also just ran Passmark's Performance Test 7 and got a score of 1344.7. I am not sure if thats of any use but thought I would post it anyway

It has been along time since I have been able to try fallout 3 again and get back to this post. It seems to be running VERY VERY slow. I had to reinstall xp again last week to solve some other issues. I cant understand what is making it so slow, I close all unnecessary services. Clean registry, keep HDD defragmented, run Game booster. The only security on here at the moment is Comodo Internet Security 3.11 and I disable all its features and then close it. Here is my hijack this log just incase it helps :

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 5:35:28 p.m., on 3/09/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\Program Files\IObit\Game Booster\gbtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\deploy\jqs\ie\jqs_plugin.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Launch LGDCore] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\G-series Software\LGDCore.exe" /SHOWHIDE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\nView\nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [OODefragTray] C:\WINDOWS\system32\oodtray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [COMODO Internet Security] "C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Internet Security\cfp.exe" -h
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1251812423046
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/muweb_site.cab?1251814182078
O23 - Service: COMODO Internet Security Helper Service (cmdAgent) - COMODO - C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Internet Security\cmdagent.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: O&O Defrag - O&O Software GmbH - C:\WINDOWS\system32\oodag.exe

At the time of the issue I was running Kaspersky AV 2010 and spybot s&d (but only the SD helper - bad blocker for web) and peerguardian. Now I have Avira Premium Security Suite and spybot and peer guardian, but I always shut them down and turn off modem before playing.

I had a look at that autoruns program, and nothing was running that I didnt already know about.

I have been thinking about your problem.  I was wondering what other processes are you running when you are running this game.  If you haven't tried out this autoruns.exe program I have recently spoke about, it might be a good idea.  To give you an idea what this does, it tells you what is currently running on your computer with better discriptions then task manager.  So give it a try, you might be surprised what you find.  You could have some software in the background doing some major processing that you don't need done.  I really don't know the problem you are seeing but maybe this will give you some insight on what your computer is doing.  Also you might consider doing a memory test on the new ram you have put in and on your video card.  I recently build a new system and it kept rebooting on me.  Stuff was laggy as well, come to find out that the video memory was bad so I had to get a new video card.  These are just some troubleshooting ideas to find the problem.  Hope they help.  Good luck in finding the issue.

Hahaha, It would just happen to be the day the latest forceware is released that you respond, lol I will download and install this today.

 

Hope this will resolve your problem, don't forget to provide us info.?!

cya,

S.