JA stu Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 I have had the xbox360 version of fallout3 for a long time and I bought fallout3 game of the year edition to start modding it. I have downloaded the game onto my windows 7 laptop but whenever I press new game on the ingame menu it gets to the loading screen and then just crashes. Please help! My laptop details are as follows: 64 bit operating systemceleron dual-core 1.80ghz 1.79 ghz T30004 gb of ram compaq presario cq61 notebook pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair91 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Erm... Have you modded the game before? Have you downloaded any mods? If so please post us your load order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JA stu Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 No but I really just want to be able to play fallout 3 for pc before I start downloading mods for it. Save that problem for another day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JA stu Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 I've just recieved a message when I told it to search online. It came back ith that it is incompatible. I've already been trying different compatibilities but it doesn't seem to work. Any more advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Compaq CQ61-315SA is not a graphics-oriented machine but there is an Intel GMA 4500MHD chipset which has the capability to display reasonable 3D graphics games and moviesare you absolutely certain that your video can play this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechine Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Uh install it to C:/bethesda softworks/fallout instead of C:/program files/bethesda softworks/fallout 3 Run it as Admin, run it in compatibilty mode for Windows XP SP3 Look around for people using Win7 an fallout 3 The draw distances are about 4 times as high as they should be, so 1/4 to 1/2 yeilds 100 meter LOD, something like that, you might want to turn a bunch of stuff off, because you won't notice it anyway. Turn off AA an AF, if you have to AA an AF force it via your grapics card control panel an only use 2X for both AA an AF. Turn off shadows (it's only on the Npc's) turn off multisampling (it's only tree branches an fences) Turn off depth of field (it's only when you're talking to npc's) turn raidial blur to low quality (you won't notice) Put everything else on high or pick ultra settings when you start, then turn the stuff above off, and move the sliders betwen all the way down to 1/4 for max performance, then up to 1/2 or more if you want more distance. Also look in the tweekguide for making it run even better http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html Defrag the hard-drive, force it if it says no need to defrag this volume, defrag it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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