Misery Loves Company - Fallout 3 glitches on all platforms

If you're an Elder Scrolls veteran, you may consider the Fallout 3 issues discovered to date (particularly on the Xbox 360) to be nothing to write home about. But they are still aggravating, especially if you're immersed in the deep and compelling story and they pull you right back out into the real world. Here's what people are reporting and what you can might be able to do about it:

• Xbox 360: Mostly freezing and graphical glitches. Clearing your hard drive cache seems to help (if you don't mind wiping out all of those game patches), and reports indicate that saving the entire game to run from your hard drive (one of the features of the new dashboard update due next week) helps even more. Also, littering the countryside with objects could be an issue. Best to leave things alone that you can't carry and dispose of extraneous objects by selling them or placing them in containers/corpses. These tips should tide you over until the inevitable patch - unless you red ring. If that happens, it's not due to any game glitch but because you played too much and your 360 overheated.
  
  
• PS3: Mostly frame rate, stuttering and texture loading problems. Receiving messages from friends during games may cause freezing, so you may want to disable them and, while you're at, don't access the XMB. Also disconnect all other game controllers and make sure the one you're playing with is set to Controller 1. There are also reports that you may not be able to cancel the VATS targeting or shoot if all parts of a target are at zero percent. If this happens, see if you can switch to another target.
  
  
• PC:This version was patched, and some report it worked better without the update. So if the game is crashing, you might downgrade - at least until the next patch. Other suggestions that people claim have helped: updating audio and video drivers (K-Lite codecs in particular have been called out) and removing SecuROM protection installed by another game such as BioShock that may be causing a conflict.

Whichever version you play, save early and often. Don't overwrite or delete saves until you're sure you'll no longer need them. Don't count on autosave entirely since every time you enter or leave a place you'll trigger a new one, overwriting the last. If a problem arises, you may need to backtrack 1-2 saves. Personally, I've had maybe 1-2 load screen freezes and that's it. But then I've trained myself with hundreds of hours in buggy Morrowind (and Oblivion, to a lesser extent) to play in such a way that the world doesn't fill up with unnecessary objects...