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Posted November 29, 2012
Anyone here play Fallout 3 on a Windows 7 machine?
Posted November 29, 2012
It works.
Posted November 29, 2012
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langurmonkey: Anyone here play Fallout 3 on a Windows 7 machine?
Running it on Windows 7 Home Premium right now, blasting mutants like a champ.
Posted November 29, 2012
There is some weird reason it is listed as incompatible on Steam. I think it's more prone to crash or something.

Worked fine for me.
Posted November 29, 2012
It's not officialy supported. Meaning - if it doesn't work on your rig on Win7, you can't have any claim against them.

But most of the people run this game on Win7 without any problems. But you may be the unlucky one.
Posted November 29, 2012
Finished it two or three months ago.

EDIT: I should probably mention that this was a retail copy with whatever DRM it comes with. No problems there, either.
Post edited November 29, 2012 by AlKim
Posted November 29, 2012
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StingingVelvet: There is some weird reason it is listed as incompatible on Steam. I think it's more prone to crash or something.

Worked fine for me.
The issue affects some people and not others - I haven't much in the way of reasoning for this, but Steam gives fair warning that if it fails there isn't much they can do about it.

Wish the developer had considered their customers a little more and kept the game patched and working onto the new OS.
Posted November 29, 2012
Works fine - W7 64 bit. Both F3 and F:NV.
Posted November 29, 2012
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jgresham: The issue affects some people and not others - I haven't much in the way of reasoning for this, but Steam gives fair warning that if it fails there isn't much they can do about it.

Wish the developer had considered their customers a little more and kept the game patched and working onto the new OS.
If the OS was the problem then everyone running that OS would see it. They don't and it isn't. Steam was likely just reacting to increased bug reports on Win7 which could be the result of damn near anything.

PC gaming!
Posted November 29, 2012
It crashed on launch for me every single time until I edited the .ini file, as shown here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1328904

Now it seems to be working flawlessly, but I've only played a few minutes, so can't be sure.
Posted November 29, 2012
Works fine for me, Windows 7 X86 Pro.

I have to set it to run as administrator and in XP SP3 mode, but it works great.
Posted November 29, 2012
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keeveek: It's not officialy supported. Meaning - if it doesn't work on your rig on Win7, you can't have any claim against them.

But most of the people run this game on Win7 without any problems. But you may be the unlucky one.
Fallout 3 doesn't work on my Windows 7 machine. I'm talking about the Steam version though.
Post edited November 29, 2012 by langurmonkey
Posted November 29, 2012
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jgresham: The issue affects some people and not others - I haven't much in the way of reasoning for this, but Steam gives fair warning that if it fails there isn't much they can do about it.

Wish the developer had considered their customers a little more and kept the game patched and working onto the new OS.
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StingingVelvet: If the OS was the problem then everyone running that OS would see it. They don't and it isn't. Steam was likely just reacting to increased bug reports on Win7 which could be the result of damn near anything.

PC gaming!
The OS is likely not the only problem, but the specific problems that most people are complaining about are pretty much only happening on Win7. Drivers, hardware, who knows what the additional x-factor is, but without Win7 it won't kill the game.
Posted November 29, 2012
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jgresham: The OS is likely not the only problem, but the specific problems that most people are complaining about are pretty much only happening on Win7. Drivers, hardware, who knows what the additional x-factor is, but without Win7 it won't kill the game.
People have complained about every Bethesda game crashing and doing whatever else since forever.

If the OS was the CAUSE of the problem then everyone running Win7 would experience it. They don't. It could be a recent driver, it could be a conflict with Win7 and a driver, it could be all kinds of shit, but Win7 itself is not the root cause or it would be repeatable on every Win7 machine.

Anyway we're arguing semantics so whatevs.
Posted November 29, 2012
Just played it today, with 64-bit Win7. Works like a charm.
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