Solved Fallout 3 on Windows 10 from Steam
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Anyone got Fallout 3 running on Windows 10 yet? I have it from Steam and, of course, it is "not compatible with this version of Windows".
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I went in and:
- Set FalloutLauncher.exe to run in Windows Vista SP1 Mode
- Set FalloutLauncher.exe to run as Administrator
- Set Fallout3.exe to Windows Vista SP1 Mode
- Set Fallout3.exe to run as Administrator
Now gives me this when I try to play the game:
"The ordinal 43 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\xlive.dll."
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I went and downloaded this from Steam's forum discussion: http://download.gfwl.xboxlive.com/content/gfwl-public/redists/production/xliveredist.msi
The Microsoft XLiveDist helped and allowed me to fire up and get into the Fallout 3 menu screen and it acted like it was going to work, but when I went to start a new game from there it failed again and crashed out.
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Tried this but it did nothing:
Edit with notepad:
* My Documents\my games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.INI or C:\users\yourname\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.ini
* find (control F) bUseThreadedAI=0
* CHANGE to bUseThreadedAI=1
* Immediately after this line, ADD this new line: iNumHWThreads=2 -
Working from here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/22370/discussions/0/828937546147175081/
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Scott, where are you at with this right now? I've played with mine to get it to run (Fallout 4 Hype)
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Scott, where are you at with this right now? I've played with mine to get it to run (Fallout 4 Hype)
Getting the Newb Nexus Mod collection to see if that fixes anything. Takes ~90 minutes to download here, so that is still underway.
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@scottalanmiller Did you get that .dll and put it in the root directory? The issue is that Steam doesn't make you auto-install Games for Windows Live with the game, but you need several of the packages from it to make the game run properly.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Did you get that .dll and put it in the root directory? The issue is that Steam doesn't make you auto-install Games for Windows Live with the game, but you need several of the packages from it to make the game run properly.
No, I only ran the Games for Windows Live installer and it did get me farther than I had been before. Should I do some manual DLL placement in addition to that?
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@scottalanmiller Yes
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This did it:
Some computers do not have a video card, using only the wimpy graphics processor built into the CPU (Intel IGP). These users crash on the intro movie and need the following fix. STOP: This fix is only for people with intel HD graphics! If you have any ATI or Nvidia video card you shouldn't be using this!
* Click here[www.nexusmods.com] and "download manually" * Right click the download to extract it * Drag only the d3d9x.dll file to your Fallout folder, probably at: * C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 3 goty\ -
This is the file that I needed: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/download/82734
