Suider-Bloke: Every time I try to launch the game it crashes, the opening cinematic deosn't have time to start before it crashes, i've tried different ways to fix this like editing the ini files, changing the amount of cores the game uses, trying to launch after changing the compatiblity setting and disabling the in-game overlay. nothing that i have done has worked and I don't know what to do.

wdluense3: Use the d3d9.dll that is provided in the link below. All you should have to do is drop the d3d9.dll into the game folder and then the game should boot properly after that.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/20371/

Suider-Bloke: just did it and it crashed, is there something like this for windows 10?
Thanks

wdluense3: It should also work for Windows 10. Try some of the other d3d9.dll's at the link below.

https://www.dll-files.com/d3d9.dll.html

Suider-Bloke: i should've said this ealier but no error message pops up so i don't what the problem is

wdluense3: What are your PC specs?

In the past I never had an error message pop up for FO3 when it used to crash.

Suider-Bloke: No only in the steam version which i fixed but that still crashed

wdluense3: Do you have Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA graphics?

I started playing the Steam version of FO3 using Intel 4400 & had to use a handful of fixes to get it working. Right now I am only using the GOG version with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with no issues so far.

Suider-Bloke: I fixed it some how but my pc can easily run fallout 3, thank you for your help

wdluense3: How did you fix it?

Suider-Bloke: don't know rebought fallout 3 on steam installed that ran it, uninstaled it, reinstalled it on gog and it worked

NineFiveSeven: Dang just bought the game and I'm having issues too. I thought the gog version would solve the crashing issue but so far it's doing the same as the Steam version for me. I also did the whole ini stuff and compatibility mode/windowed mode. I just wanna play Fallout 3 :(

wdluense3: Are you using Intel graphics?

NineFiveSeven: Yes.