Posted on: August 29, 2022

Psychpunks

Games: 33 Reviews: 2

The Power of Atmosphere

I have a soft spot for Fallout 3. It was my first Bethesda game, what got me into modding along with Dragon Age: Origins and, honestly, their best world to date. Sure, the morality system is paper-thin, the main quest is generic and you can tell they tried way too hard to please everyone, bringing back everything from older games rather than trying something new. Still, the Capital Wasteland is great to explore, especially the massive metro system, and the combat is fine for its time. This was the last game before Bethesda went all-in on the awful MMO-style radiant quests. DC feels lived in, featuring memorable locations and side quests without just being a big empty world for the sake of it. It's no masterpiece and still can't compare to Fallout 1 as my favourite in the series, but 3 is enjoyable overall. I haven't played it in many, many years, but now it works right out of the box, too.

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Posted on: February 5, 2024

FlyingKrait

Verified owner

Games: 4 Reviews: 1

Still love it

Still love this after all these years. The expansions are really good, though Mothership Zeta and The Pitt are my absolute favourites. I actually prefer the game to Fallout 4 and NV, but that's just my personal opinion. ;) The game launches without having to install GFWL, so if you get the message about compatibility issues just merrily click it away. My freshly installed game crashed on startup - if that happens to you start it in windowed mode, finish the tutorial, and then save, exit, and set up the screenmode to whatever you want.

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Posted on: March 3, 2023

mkgaskill

Verified owner

Games: 141 Reviews: 6

Great Memories

This thing runs like a dream on my Dell laptop. 10th gen I7, 32 gb of ram and Gforce RTX 2070. I can't get enough of it. It's been 10 or 12 years since played it last. Some of the DLC I've never played. Can't wait to get to that. So I'm very happy with the 7 dollar expenditure. :)

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Posted on: June 24, 2022

Spencer4401

Verified owner

Games: 7 Reviews: 1

Crashing on startup

cant even get past the launcher just sits on a black screen for a second then crashes

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Posted on: March 6, 2023

tarjan95

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Games: 1296 Reviews: 6

How I Got The Game to Work on Windows 11

I have windows 11 and for those of you who have the game on 10 or 11 and have not gotten the game to work try this. This is the multicore fix and is one of the most important things. You should do this for Fallout 3 and New Vegas if you have a quadcore processor (or any processor with more than 2 cores). The Gamebyro engine (which runs fallout 3 and NV) has issues with 2 or more cores. This fix forces the game to run on two cores. It will fix a LARGE majority of crashing for most people. Go to /Documents/My games/Fallout 3/ Find fallout.ini Open with notepad Use find (Ctrl F) and type "bUseThreadedAI=0" without quotes Replace "bUseThreadedAI=0 " with "bUseThreadedAI=1" Add an extra line and type "iNumHWThreads=2" *If you STILL have a lot of crashes you can reduce that number to 1 but it will effect game performance. * I did not have these two lines of text but after adding them the game works fine.

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