pezhead Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Being as my Fallout folder is still relatively small (17gb) I keep a stable barebones version of it on my external drive-with few mods, Fomm and fose etc.Since FOMM basically allows gameplay without the disc I normally don't have an issue-unless i want a vanila install. Last week, my backpack with my laptop with all my games(discs) was stolen. (on a sidenote-its been a real pain since second semester started this week) My Fallout3 GOTY edition was in that pack unfortunately. Now I mentioned earlier that I can play normally without the disc. However, I just upgraded my desktop to windows 7, and so transferred my Fallout files and saves, but upon launching Fo3edit, I ended up with the error."Fatal: Could not open registry key: \SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout3\" I learned that under normal circumstances, simply running the launcher would fix this issue, but i don't have my disc-and if I had a cracked version, it wouldn't be an issue. So, does anyone know a way to manually fix this registry issue? I'd appreciate any helpful tips, advice or walkthroughs and i know I'm not the only one with this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prandiningrat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 you need your Goty disc to reinstall the game..to write installation path in registry..to edit registry manually add this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout3 and new string value 'Installed Path' then type your falout3 installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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