You NEED both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas for this mod to work.Īlso, I have read that people have better experiences with Windows 8+ for this game due to the fact that W8 has better compatiblity support than W7. A computer with Windows 7 SP1, 8.1 or 10 and. Fallout 3 patch 1.4 Fallout 3 patch 1.1 Fallout 3 patch BLUS-30455 (French Canada GOTY only. Fallout 3 patch 1.6 Fallout 3 patch 1.5 Fallout 3 patch 1.4 Fallout 3 patch 1.1 Fallout 3 patch 1.0.0.15 Fallout 3 patch 1.5 current, released on April 19, 2009. Fallout 3 patch 1.7 current, released on July 27, 2009. You start in Fallout 3, so you can choose to play F3 and only F3, but if you want to play Fallout: NV, you'll have to disable the mod, or just run to the train station by Dukov's place/mansion and travel to NV and start the story there. The latest patch can be downloaded from the official Bethesda Patches website.

This mod actually combines the two games together and you can travel between the two.

I however, recommend that if you also have Fallout: New Vegas that you should download and install the Tale of Two Wastelands mod(TTW), this mod brings Fallout 3 over to the Fallout: NV engine, so it's more stable. I can play it fine for hours on end and once I reinstall Windows 7 for testing something, it crashes every 5 minutes afterwards.Īs Almercenary has said, look at PCGamingWiki for fixes via config files. Gone are the days of having 5 different 'Compatability' settings on various files in your Fallout 3 Folder. Forget about downloading a dubious version of d3d9d.dll or some other file which may harm your machine. The thing with Fallout 3 is that it can get finnicky with newer OS's because the way it was made for XP/Vista at the time. After spending hours trolling the internet and trying various fixes, I have finally gotten Fallout 3 to work reliably in Windows 8.1.

Fallout 3 on windows 8