Topic on Talk:F.E.A.R.

UPDATE: I solved the problem day after it happened. I simply set compatibility mode with Windows XP SP3 and that did it. Game started working well. All tho checkpoint saving or manual saving takes a bit longer than it should but still, it worked.

So yeah, I did not had this problem on previous Windows, like Windows 7 or XP, but on Windows 10 sometimes FEAR just crashes back to desktop while saving the progress automatically on the checkpoint. For example, I had a crash in the moment after you meet that fat guy second time, when he is hiding with holding cactus above his head. And so, after you talk to him and move down the corridor, game starting to save the progress and then it freezes and crashes without any error whatsoever. I don't know why this is happening, but again, like I said, I did not had this problem back in the days on previous Windows OS. Is there any solution to this?

Be sure to have applied the 4 GB/LAA patch: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/F.E.A.R.#4_GB_patch

Last I looked into this game, it could easily run past the 2 GB RAM limit of 32-bit games on modern machines at higher resolutions.

Well, here is the thing. I'm playing this game on old PC with 2 GB RAM and 256 MB VRAM and with processor with 2 cores in 3 GHz. Windows 10 on this PC loads from SSD while everything else is located on HDD. So I guess that the problem is in Windows 10. But I already beat the game. I just set a compatibility mode with Windows XP SP3 and that did it. Heck, I already beat the second game with no problems whatsoever. So yeah, you kinda replied to my comment too late.