Solution by Warren Woodhouse
Sometimes, especially after 200 hours playing Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, you’ll eventually run into a game save crash on the PS3. I did, however, find a solution to the issue, which I have outlined below:
- Make a copy of your most recent hard save or autosave game save file to a USB disk drive
- Delete the game and all the Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition game saves from the PS3
- Enter Safe Mode on the PS3 and select Restore Database
- Enter Safe Mode again and select Reset Network Settings
- Enter Safe Mode again and select Delete Cache
- Restart PS3
- Reinstall Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Create a new save game file, complete the Prologue and Enter the Wasteland. Wait until you see a confirmation of a trophy/achievement pop up, if it’s already been unlocked, the pop up won’t occur. If you see a pop up saying that achievements won’t pop up, delete the save file and start from the beginning. Do not delete this save file until the issue happens again with the game crashing
- Close the game and copy your original save file to the console
- Restart the console
- Play the game as normal
There you go. Real easy. This method also works with Skyrim on the PS3, Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3 and Fallout 4 on the PS4 and PS5.