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Fallout 3
13 years ago
Is an amazing game. But after the Xbox I was using carved a nice, long trench in the disk around level 22 (yes, I was using Broken Steel, but I hadn't even finished the main questline for the original game--god damn there are so many sidequests!) I tried in vain to replace the disk, then the Xbox got dismantled by somebody else before I could get my save data, and when I got it on Steam I found out that it can't run on Windows 7.
Unreal Tournament 2004, a game four years older than Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
Oblivion, the game that uses the same engine as Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
Skyrim, the game that uses all the same features and graphics introduced in Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
But Fallout 3 can't run on Windows 7. I tried all the fixes, I set all the affinities and disabled all the Net 3.1 options and all that jazz, and I still couldn't get the game to work. I got the cracked version and that didn't work (by this point I own TWO copies of the game that don't work, so don't bitch at me about using a cracked version).
So I have three copies of Fallout 3: GOTY that don't work at all. One is physical, one is on Steam, and the other is just a couple of big iso files. But there is NO REASON for Fallout 3 to NOT work on Windows 7, ESPECIALLY when every other game I've EVER OWNED works just fine on Windows 7 (including games built for Windows 95, like Half-Life).
So what the fuck? Of course, Bugthesda won't release a patch for the millions of people who bought their damn game and can't play it. So that's out of the question. I may just install a Windows XP partition on the hard drive, but it's going to be a pain in the ass to restart my computer every single time I just want to play one stupid game.
Does ANYBODY have any ideas?
Unreal Tournament 2004, a game four years older than Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
Oblivion, the game that uses the same engine as Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
Skyrim, the game that uses all the same features and graphics introduced in Fallout 3, can run on Windows 7.
But Fallout 3 can't run on Windows 7. I tried all the fixes, I set all the affinities and disabled all the Net 3.1 options and all that jazz, and I still couldn't get the game to work. I got the cracked version and that didn't work (by this point I own TWO copies of the game that don't work, so don't bitch at me about using a cracked version).
So I have three copies of Fallout 3: GOTY that don't work at all. One is physical, one is on Steam, and the other is just a couple of big iso files. But there is NO REASON for Fallout 3 to NOT work on Windows 7, ESPECIALLY when every other game I've EVER OWNED works just fine on Windows 7 (including games built for Windows 95, like Half-Life).
So what the fuck? Of course, Bugthesda won't release a patch for the millions of people who bought their damn game and can't play it. So that's out of the question. I may just install a Windows XP partition on the hard drive, but it's going to be a pain in the ass to restart my computer every single time I just want to play one stupid game.
Does ANYBODY have any ideas?
From what you told me the other day you said you were trying to run the game on a laptop, that will not work unless you buy a dedicated graphics card for your laptop, a graphics card that will run on it's on and plug into the motherboard rather than being integrated with the laptop, if you don't have one then your laptop has an integrated graphics card that is merged with and uses the same RAM as the motherboard while a dedicated graphics card uses it's own RAM. Games like Fallout 3 do not work with these kind of graphical processors because of all the RAM usage, why Oblivion works with it, I don't know.
Here's where I got all my info from:
http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threa.....raphics.93054/
Don't install mods unless your computer can take it, mine apparently couldn't... Try installing the game to a seperate installation folder, like make a new folder inside the programs section JUST named "Fallout", not sure why but this does sometimes work. After about 5 or more reinstalls of the game, it tends to get a bit more glitchy, unlike the Xbox with its very rare freezes, at least for me. Did you try right clicking for the properties of the game to set it in compatability mode for Windows XP?