Yesterday I purchased Fallout New Vegas and it runs very well on Medium settings on my cheapo laptop.

I was going to buy Fallout 3 today just to give it a go before New Vegas and read on the requierements that Intel cards are not supported , in the New Vegas requierements it doesn't say anything about it.

So, has anyone tried FO3 on an integrated chip? Does it actually work? Do they use a different engine?

Thanks

On my laptop(with Intel HD 4000) the game crashes after I press: New Game.
After I switched settings from my integrated graphics card to a dedicated one(radeon 7670m), the game launched without problems.
Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not.

Thanks for the replies!

I think I'll buy the game and use the link that Thiev kindly provided, looks like it worked for almost 40.000 people so I guess I'll get lucy with it.

So, the engines are different? New Vegas works fine without patching.

Thanks again.

Cheers!

Can confirm that the linked fix works. I found the same yesterday (crashed on my Surface with Intel card).

Simply drop the d3d9.dll in the Fallout 3 directory and it will work, ignore the INI file, The GOG version already ships the correct INI

Just strange that it's still incompatible with Intel cards, even when they are a few generations newer. Can't be a driver bug.

I haven't tried Fallout 3 yet, but both Oblivion and New Vegas work on my slim laptop with an Intel® HD Graphics 615, but only if I run them with "Bloom" instead of "HDR".

I second this. I am playing it on my Surface Pro 4 with Intel Iris 540 graphics and this worked. It tricks the game into thinking it is a Geforce 7900 GS.

I can also confirm that the fix from Nexusmod works. The review from Nicholson 441 was very helpful in directing me to the download page. I'm happy to hear that the Las Vegas Fallout game does not require this fix though (since I bought both at the same time).