Fallout 3 keeps freezing, simple as that, help?

My machine thats well above the requirements to run fo3

CPU: Intel Core i7 870
RAM: DDR3 SDRAM10 GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55-UD3H
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
I just bought it through steam
and im running directx11

but intermittently as I play it freezes, lowering the quality seems to make it worse if anything.

help really is appreciated

Additional details - Apr 6, 2012 5:38 pm GMT

And there are no error numbers coming up fyi

Submitted Answers

From ivory_soul on May 26, 2012 10:13 am GMT

First off, Fallout 3 doesn't use DX11 so that's not the issue. You could have some sort of virus/malware that is causing the problem. Try turning off your virus scanner, and run some malware scanners as well. Try de-fragging your HDD too. If none of that works re-install the game.

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