Fallout 3 goty compatible with Win 7pro???

[Rooker75]

I have it running on Win7 Premium 64-bit. I remember having to manually force the 2nd disc but otherwise it installed fine.

 

I also had to change a setting in the config file to limit it to 2 CPU cores because they busted quadcore support in one of the patches and couldn't be bothered to fix it. It causes random crashes when running on more than 2 cores.

 

Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3

Find the line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add another line after it and insert:

iNumHWThreads=2

 

If it continues to crash, change it to iNumHWThreads=1

 

You might want to look for and download something called Win 7 codec pack.

 

And do the obvious stuff like making sure Windows and the graphics driver are up-to-date. I think I remember it installed some Microsoft stuff that Windows needed to update later.

[prandiningrat]

If we seeing updated date in compatibility list, it recently updated by Microsoft 3/2/2011(newer than new vegas),after service pack 1 Win 7 has been released(February 22, 2011). It seem OP's OS using service Pack 1 too. Probably this is the second test by Microsoft for Fallout 3. After the first test failed (NOT compatible),then go to the second test..Yes, all I know about Microsoft, something is hidden..

Another thing ricmoors using crossfire, which is maybe causing a crash(so i'd recommend using single), after Fallout 3 Unofficially compatible on Win 7, don't make another issues.

If you are using Catalyst 11.6, from I've heard that driver has too many bugs..

[prensa]

Yes, the Microsoft official line is that Fallout 3 is not compatible with Windows 7, to be fair, this is the same line that Bethesda takes:

 

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/info/faq.html

 

Does Fallout 3 Support Windows 7?

Fallout 3 is not an officially supported title of Windows 7.

 

It should not be taken seriously though, what it really means is - we can't be held responsible if it does not work!

 

After all Fallout 3 was made prior to Win7.

 

Like I said & others on here too, it works very well on my Win7 64 bit.

 

& that's both before the service pack & after.

 

I even run it with the highest settings.

 

The thing Fallout 3 really seems to have trouble with are hyperthreaded multi cores especially those above two cores.

 

Fortunately there's an .ini work around for that. :)

 

Prensa