Hello everyone!

I finally got Fallout 3 to launch by editing the ini, but now I have a new problem.

I can click "new game" and then "yes" but nothing happens. It does't crash, it keeps running just fine, just doesn't do anything.

So if anyone has any input on this it'd be much appreciated.

I'm having same problem.

Hi there,

just started my fresh intall of F3 and it works just fine !
Played till the 10year birthday party...or where did your games crashes ?
Some infos of your system and hardware would be very helpfull to give you some first hints.

My system so far with all drivers up-to-date (used this tool -- https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy):

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 44 °C
Matisse 7nm Technology
RAM
32,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd. MEG X570 UNIFY (MS-7C35) (AM4) 34 °C
Graphics
PLG2788H (1920x1080@144Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (ASUStek Computer Inc) 31 °C
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 30 °C
3726GB Western Digital WDC WD40EZRX-00SPEB0 (SATA ) 35 °C
931GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB (Unknown (SSD))
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224FB
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Thanks for the reply,

Thing is the game doesn't crash at all. I can get to the title screen, I can click "new" It will ask "Start a new game?" when I then click yes it just doesn't do anything.
I suspect it has trouble creating a save file, but I'm not sure.

My specs:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 45 °C
Matisse 7nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1333MHz (20-19-19-43)
Motherboard
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd. B450M PRO-M2 MAX (MS-7B84) (AM4) 45 °C
Graphics
G2460 (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (MSI) 46 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (SATA ) 33 °C
465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO M.2 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 44 °C

Where is your game installed ?
I have on every device an folder called e.g. e:\gog_games\
and my local machine account got admin rights, might be needed by some older games.
Hope, it gives you some help.

Here's a solution someone posted, may work for you.

https://www.gog.com/forum/fallout_series/fo3_gog_crash/post2
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I've never had to use this on my Windows 7 install, but I do know that at times the .ini files can be screwy and deleting it will tell the game to start the configuration part over again.

Though I would recommend you always backup whatever files you plan to delete before doing so just in case.
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Fallout 3 GOTY has "Downloads" greyed out on the main menu, and as soon as I click "New Game", it crashes. I've tried multiple fixes listed on GOG, none have helped at all. I believe Windows 10 may be the problem, but am usure. All I know is that before I updated to W10, the game ran fine, and I even completed multiple playthroughs with light modding.