Fallout 3 on Windows 10 from Steam

scottalanmiller

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

scottalanmiller

Working from here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/22370/discussions/0/828937546147175081/

scottalanmiller

Trying this now: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/19122/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Ffallout3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D19122&pUp=1#content

scottalanmiller

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/download/1000010371

Mike Ralston

Scott, where are you at with this right now? I've played with mine to get it to run (Fallout 4 Hype)

scottalanmiller

@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.

Mike Ralston

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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?

Mike Ralston

@scottalanmiller Yes

scottalanmiller

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\

scottalanmiller

This is the file that I needed: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/download/82734

Solved Fallout 3 on Windows 10 from Steam