Game Will Not Start (Vista)

[GeroRRA]

Hello,

 

(You can skip the next two lines to get to the problem. Next bit is background info.)

 

I had Fallout 3 installed on my XP Pro 64-bit system, and it ran great. I was going through my first play-through and downloaded a few minor mods from this great site to enhance the core experience without making big changes; much fun was being had.

 

Then, I find a great offer for Vista Ultimate 64-Bit. Tired of the lack of active XP-64 support, I update (along with my memory, video card, monitor & case). Mixed results, but good overall. Then I reinstall my games.

 

After installing Fallout 3 again, I go to start a vanilla game to see how things look. Things act like they're starting up, gets to loading the main menu (showing the green background slide thing start to change), then it crashes to the desktop. I make sure I'm running it (the game and launcher exe both) as the Administrator, and it crashes. I install the new patch, and it still crashes.

 

I'm wondering if maybe Games for Windows Live might be an issue. I think it's crashing about the same time that would start to load, if memory serves.

 

I've contacted Bethesda, but they don't seem to care too much (distracted by Broken Steel perhaps?). Does anyone here have any ideas? I'm just trying to get the plain, un-modded game to work.

 

GeroRRA.

 

EDIT: Bethesda got back to me, and they suggested not just uninstalling and re-installing, but to delete the registry keys. Worked after that.

[Deleted54170User]

Here's another little point for Vista.

 

Windows Defender can be shut off and on. I turned it on back when I was searching for a new Malware, Spyware, etc suite and I just had a little mouse control freeze. I could see the Pipboy-3000 and the pictures background was moving but the mouse arrow was frozen. I shut down and as my temperature started rising that Windows Defender gave up a pop up message that something had chanced in cmd...

I turned off Windows Defenders, "Microsofts little malware, spyware sniffer" and returned to playing the game.

 

 

The game is packed into (x86) Program files which makes it extraordinary in the standard play mode. I made it all the way through tthe game without more than one or two BSoD and a few crashes while a bit of software was calling to Mothersoft called, "VCerti 3.exe" to verify the disk in my DVD drive was legitamite.

I just left the Fallout 3 disk in my DVD drive for six hours before I decided to install everything today and I found my firewall tool registered it called home 231 times.

 

On October 28th I picked up the game, the first time around I played the game to the end, found the Play on after game ends plugin, and started loading plugins like when I first found MORROWIND. No unusual problems.

 

 

I found out May 12, 2009 that I can give my antivirus settings permissions to let certain files work on my machine. Right after a clean install I started the launch window, clicked on play, and my monitor screen went blank.

 

I struggled with it all night and gave up. In the morning when I came back to it I decided to turn off my Internet modem. That did not help. I rebooted and turned off my anti-virus software and Game On!

Do you recall how Microsoft so politely would remind us when we loaded "none certified software" that it wasn't?

Well, my antivirus softwared put every file, except the launcher, into a pending state.

 

Until I figured out this new Internet Security Suites little suspension of almost all the files in Fallout 3 root folder on my Vista Ultimate software they were locked.

I don't know if this will help you, but I gave my personal permission to let all the .dlls, .bsa, and such in the folder to run on my machine and game problem solved.