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Fallout 3 working in Windows 8.1 (Fixes) - Reposted from a solve and post by Linesma:

After spending hours trolling the internet and trying various fixes, I have finally gotten Fallout 3 to work reliably in Windows 8.1. Forget about downloading a dubious version of d3d9d.dll or some other file which may harm your machine. Gone are the days of having 5 different "Comparability" settings on various files in your Fallout 3 Folder. There is an easy 2 step process that I have found that works 99% of the time. Here they are in detail.
1. First you need to disable Games For Windows Live. In the past, this involved copying a hacked version of the "xlive" series of dll's to your Windows\syswow64 folder. Instead of this, use a nice little utility available on Nexus mods called "Games for Windows Live Disabler. Just download the file, run it and click the "Disable GFWL" button, and there you go. If you have the non-Steam version of the game, make sure to click the "move DLC" button also. Otherwise you will not see the DLC when you launch the game. You can find this nifty utility here: [url]nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/1086/?'>Link

2. The main reason why the game crashes on modern systems is that the game engine was not designed to run on more than 2 CPU cores. You can easily fix this by editing the fallout.ini file. It can be found in My Documents\My Games\Fallout3. Open the fallout.ini file in Notepad and look for the following line: bUseThreadedAI=0. Change the 0 to a 1. Then add this line right after the one you just edited: iNumHWThreads=2. This will limit the game to using only 2 CPU cores. If the game still crashes using 2 CPU cores, edit the line iNumHWThreads=2 to iNumHWThreads=1. This will limit the game to only using one CPU core.

Using the 2 fixes I have outlined, I have been able to play Fallout 3 for 4 hours straight on multiple occasions without any crashes or freezes. I hope this helps bring new life to this classic!
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Thanks Linesma!




[Edited by element5, 7/7/2015 1:00:04 AM]

Guys, if the game is on Steam and it doesn't work REPORT IT AS BROKEN so it gets FIXED!

Do this by clicking the little flag at the bottom right corner of the storefront page.

Make sure Steam knows they are selling a product that does NOT WORK as it should. That will either force them to take it down (which should happen anyway) until Bethesda fixes it or just take it down for good.

I'm a big fan of Bethesda, but I'm a bigger fan of accountability. Selling a game that doesn't work is actually illegal.

There is nothing to fix for Bethesda as the game requirements on Steam clearly state that Windows XP/Vista are the versions to use as well which hardware.

They have no obligation to change or fix something because Windows 7 appeared a year after release of the base game or Windows 10 came out 6 years after the GOTY version of the game. They could've done it but at the end of the day we're still talking about Bethesda here.

heard the GOG version works with windows 10
maybe we need to request a gog trainer version

Feel free.

Please use the trainer option request system for requesting new options be added to this trainer and/or vote on options already requested.

There is also a fix already out on nexusmods called "Fallout 3 Windows 7 - 8 - 8.1 - 10 Fix"

I am glad I read this thread hahaha. Kinda makes you forget how old Windows XP really is LOL, and just recently when I loaded windows 7 I got a freaking message from microsoft saying how they plan to no longer support the software (that sucks). I do have windows 10 and dual boot with 7. I also still have my old CD Key for Windows XP Pro haha - Looks like I will be setting up a TRI BOOT on my machine! I should do this anyways - I got other games I'd like to play that just work well on windows XP anyways. Ugh doing the install should be fun (and all the dumb ttiny updates) - thankfully I have SP3 built into my custom ISO installer (if I remember correctly lol). This should be fun!