Recently today my Windows 10 OS received big called "April update". I was installed Fallout 3 and sudendly message poped-Fallout 3 isn't compatible with newest Windows update and give link to download GFW Live program.What gives?

I just had the same problem. If you try to use the launcher it won't work. I used the exe file and it works. Try that

If I had to take a dartboard guess from what I've seen of other such issues, this new update probably fucked with the registry or internal things. You could probably fix it by verifying your games.

Well, that worked for me. Unfortunately, there's no way to select mods if I skip the launcher, and the launcher wants to install the game before I can do anything.

I hope GOG can fix this.

As it turns out, they can and did fix it. I decided to run the "Verify/Repair" utility in the Galaxy client, and it's humming along fine now.

Unfortunately, Fallout 3 GotY still does not work for me, despite the patches from GOG. Whenever I try to start the game, the screen turns black for a second, then crashes back to desktop. It doesn't matter whether I use Launcher or the f3.exe.

Verify/Repair in Galaxy didn't have any effect.

Reinstalling/Repairing DirectX didn't have any effect.

Patching Audio & Video Codex didn't have any effect.

Installing G4WL didn't have any effect.

Running it as Administrator and/or in compatability mode (Win 7/8, Win Vista SP2, Win XP SP3) didn't have any effect.

Tried different resolutions, quality settings, turned off my second monitor via display settings, tried windowed and fullscreen - you guessed it, no effect.

System is an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 with 16 GB RAM and ATI Radeon RX580. All drivers and the OS are up to date.


Edit: The issue could be solved deleting the settings from my user directory and using the Fallout: New Vegas Crash Fix from the Nexus page.

Feels like they still stuck their heads in the sand, for f**k sakes they could either just remove Fallout 3 out of their website or try to fix their damn sh*t

I've installed, uninstalled, and run the verify route multiple times with no joy. Any ideas on how to fix this?