I've been busy playing Fallout 3 for the last few weeks. I'm playing the GOTY edition on Steam. After some troubleshooting at first I was able to launch and play the game without any issues for a significant while up until now. Altough the game launches without any issues the problem comes in once I click "Continue" on the main menu and click "Yes" to load the last saved game. The game then suddenly crashes. I'm still new to gaming and computers so I'm not 100% certain how to troubleshoot this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Some extra info that might help:

Mods: None

Laptop make and model: Lenovo LOQ15IAX9

OS: Windows 11

Processor: intel Core i5-12600HX

Graphics: NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3050 6GB

Thank you in advance