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I can play Fallout: New Vegas.

CrimsonCrimson
edited 2011-08-07 11:28:47 in General
Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
During the Steam Summer Sale I bought Fallout 3 thinking that my computer could play it. Though it has a shitty integrated graphics card, I could still play Dragon Age: Origins perfectly fine. So I thought I should be able to play an older game perfectly fine, right?

Wrong.

Whenever I tried to start a New Game, Fallout 3 would crash immediately. I tried a multitude of things to make it work, and all of them failed. I figured that my computer couldn't run it for whatever reason and gave up.

Cut to the present. I bought Fallout: New Vegas for the TF2 Pip Boy thing (wouldn't be the first time I spent $15 on junk for TF2), as a stupid impulse buy. For the hell of it, I downloaded the game and tried to play it, thinking it would be a repeat of what happened with Fallout 3.

And it ran. It ran really shitty, but it ran.

So my computer wasn't the problem after all. I know this isn't the best place to ask for tech support, but could anyone with a little bit of tech savvy tell me how I can get Fallout 3 working too?

Comments

  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    Play New Vegas. It's better
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Oh I will. But that's not the point of this topic.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Tried reducing the graphics setting?
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    I put it at minimum, it didn't work.
  • evilnekoevilneko
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Tried that, didn't work. And I said that my video card wasn't the problem as I've said. Besides I can't replace my video card because it's an integrated card for a laptop.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Have you tried contacting any kind of support?
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    While I agree Fallout 3 has a simpler story than New Vegas, I still prefer The Lone Wanderer to The Courier, besides, the East Coast Brotherhood has a fricking GIANT ROBOT./tangent
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Liberty Prime was the best thing in the history of things. 
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    I tried looking up Bethesda's tech support, it was pretty much useless. I found a forum with several people with the same problem, and I tried all the solutions there and none of them worked.
  • evilnekoevilneko
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.

    I have the same problem with Fallout 3. Except I've got a 512 MB dedicated video card on my laptop, and it still won't run. I can get past the part where you're born, I can pick my character (Honest Abe beard and Terrorsaurus hair, African-American ftw) and then the game crashes when I become the little boy.


  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    when you get Fallout III up and running downlaod and install Mothership Zeta Crew (you'll also need the Mothership Zeta DLC)
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Played it on my Xbox. The alien guns are total game breakers.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    That's just vanilla Mothership Zeta. i'm talking about Mothership Zeta Crew the mod
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