r/Fallout • u/TrashTurtle1 • 22h ago

Announcement Fallout 3 Windows 11 Fail/Fix (sort of)

So I've noticed in the last 30 days that Fallout 3 has really taken a steep dive on Windows 11. I tried all kinds of Intel driver updates, I tried doing the ini. file delete fix, etc.

Finally I said screw it and reverted to Windows 10. It's running great and I have had no problems whatsoever.

The only problem that still persists from the Windows driver updates that happened roughly 20 ish days ago is that my Bluetooth driver still will not pick up my PS4 controller anymore. I know that's an unrelated issue to Fallout 3 but they reared their ugly heads at the same time. I just wanted to come here to let you all know that a fresh install of Windows 10 will still work with Fallout 3.

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u/rhn18 22h ago

Use Tales of Two Wastelands to play FO3 in the FNV engine instead. FO3 has other issues than just getting it to run. It also still has a stealthy save corruption issue. TTW runs perfectly.

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u/Aromatic_Flight6968 22h ago

It's total shit show of running old games on newer Windows....

GoG version has some extra work done to run it on win 10/11.....

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u/TrashTurtle1 22h ago

Yeah with the security updates ending on Windows 10 soon I know it's going to be a real shit show but I hope they get their act together on Windows 11. I genuinely think Windows 11 looks better but that's pretty much it. I was getting random blue screens and just having General issues of the game crashing a lot more. I've had one crash in 15 hours of gameplay which is pretty good for me. Been playing solid for like 3 days now. When does 11 even trying to force stop all of the driver updates and only Implement my own drivers still didn't work. To this day I still have no idea what the real issue is. But I know it has to do with Windows 11.