windows seven compatibility

[gracietoo]

Hello, have installed FO3 on W7, installed FOMM, and the archive invalidation thing, and the 1.7 update, and set FOMM to create a fake xlive.dll, which took care of that message, but now when I try to start the game I get a message telling me that FO3 stopped working because of 'a problem'. No further info. Have looked on the forum for similar posts but not found any. Any suggestions please? :unsure:

[azraal]

I got the same problem... I'll give more spec though

 

Win 7 professional 64b

 

I got the latest 3d vision drivers on a geforce 8800

I tried standard steam version and patched to 1.7 both crash

 

It crash at the moment where the "diaporama movie" start sometimes I even get a bit of the music before it hangs...

 

I think about a driver issue since I read that others made it run flawlessly... Can always try the fake patch to get the very first version of fallout (steam is not)

But I'm to lazy to réinstall for now...

[Cecallred]

I'm running it (Steam version) on Win7 x64 and it runs fine. The first thing I did though was to start it with no mods or hacks and checked that it ran fine. After that I added mods until one crashed and then left it off. I only lost maybe 10 mods that worked fine with XP Pro and the rest are doing well. Try a fresh install or don't run any mods at first. Be sure your video and sound drivers are good (I went to the website for each, I didn't use the Windows update drivers)

[csb]

According to the Tweak Guide for Fallout3 on TweakGuides.com, try getting the 186.17 driver for nVidia cards from their site. It has proven to be the most stable driver for Fallout3 (as well as Oblivion and other games). It is recommended that you uninstall existing drivers (installed by Windows 7 or Vista) using the Control Panel, reboot into Safe mode, then restart and install the new driver (which will need another reboot).

 

That said, the newest driver (191.07) has included changes specific to Fallout3 (as well as other listed games). So far, it has been stable with my GTS 250.

 

Also, did you install to the default location (C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout3)? This causes issues as well (though maybe not this specific one) with the Windows User Account Control. It is best to install Fallout3 to a custom directory -- something like C:\Games\Fallout3. This is actually a good practice for all your games.

 

Hope this helps.

[gracietoo]

According to the Tweak Guide for Fallout3 on TweakGuides.com, try getting the 186.17 driver for nVidia cards from their site. It has proven to be the most stable driver for Fallout3 (as well as Oblivion and other games). It is recommended that you uninstall existing drivers (installed by Windows 7 or Vista) using the Control Panel, reboot into Safe mode, then restart and install the new driver (which will need another reboot).

 

That said, the newest driver (191.07) has included changes specific to Fallout3 (as well as other listed games). So far, it has been stable with my GTS 250.

 

Also, did you install to the default location (C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout3)? This causes issues as well (though maybe not this specific one) with the Windows User Account Control. It is best to install Fallout3 to a custom directory -- something like C:\Games\Fallout3. This is actually a good practice for all your games.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for that. I have reinstalled W7 using the 64 bit option ( I had not realised my new processor was 64 bit capable ), and I have downloaded the 191.07 nVidia driver. I did actually get the game to run on the 32 bit system, and the only problem I had was that it said certain colours were incompatible. No idea what that meant, but it loaded anyway. Now it is on the 64 bit system and it still complains of the colour incompatibility, but has loaded fine.

 

I have not (yet) put any patches or mods on - this is 100% vanilla. I will probably put another thread on the forum asking about that to see if there are any problems I need to be aware of. Otherwise; tickety-boo! :thanks:

[bben46]

The tweak guide for Win 7 is due out this weekend. Koroush Ghazi's tweak guides are great. :thumbsup: Highly recommended.

http://www.tweakguides.com/

 

He has guides for Win XP, Vista, Firefox, Nvidia and ATI based video cards, Oblivion, FO3 and many more games.

All excellent quality and easy to follow. :biggrin:

[gracietoo]

The tweak guide for Win 7 is due out this weekend. Koroush Ghazi's tweak guides are great. :thumbsup: Highly recommended.

http://www.tweakguides.com/

 

He has guides for Win XP, Vista, Firefox, Nvidia and ATI based video cards, Oblivion, FO3 and many more games.

All excellent quality and easy to follow. :biggrin:

 

Ah right - I have his Fallout tweak guide on the screen behind this one right now, and just downloaded the get-rid-of-Live mod he advocates.

 

I said 'tickety-boo' too quickly as I have a graphics problem now, with blocks of red and white where the fridge should be and the waterfall and the aquarium when in the mini hideout mod. Ho-hum. Just put nHancer on to see if I can fiddle the graphics options on that as there does not seem to be a graphics option in the menu settings in the game now that I have put the upgrade on... :thanks:

[csb]

Regarding the meshes/textures issue. Do you have Timeslip's Fallout3 Mod Manager installed? If so (and you really should!), click the "Toggle invalidation" button, so that Fallout3 knows to go looking in the Data directory's sub folders for resources (or do it manually by setting bInvalidateOlderFiles=0 to bInvalidateOlderFiles=1 in Fallout3.ini (which will be in your My Games/Fallout 3 folder, not your install folder don't touch the default.ini! -- it won't exist, however, if you haven't started Fallout3 at least once.)

 

Hope this helps.