Fallout 3 won't start with Steam, please help... have had the problem for a year, and Steam support never answers me.

[DarmanORC]

Like I said Steam support never answers me when I ask for help, I can't rely on them anymore. For one year I have had FO3, for one year FO3 has not worked for me. I have checked, and my specs are well above the requirments for FO3. Before you post a solution, listen to this, I have tried just about every solution out there, the busethreadedai thingy, updating ALL my drivers, every solution. Here's what happens. I install FO3, I click play in my games library. After that it loads and the FO3 out of game menu opens up, all I have left to do is hit play and BOOM I'm in the game. Well not so fast! As soon as I hit play, the game closes, nothing else happens. Someone please help me find a solution, I've waited long enough for Steam to help me, and now it's time to turn to the people for help.

[MaxMagnus]

Do you have Intel integrated graphics? Have you red all other posts in this forum made by people that had exactly the same problem?

[DarmanORC]

Publicado originalmente por GoranM:

Do you have Intel integrated graphics? Have you red all other posts in this forum made by people that had exactly the same problem?

1- I don't know what that means.

2- I have never seen the same problem

[MaxMagnus]

What graphics card do you have?

[DarmanORC]

Publicado originalmente por GoranM:

What graphics card do you have?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

[DarmanORC]

Another thing I'll mention, I was able to play this game for about a month, and after that this randomly happened

[Hittmo]

im not shure what happend. changed back to basic Win7 Theme and loaded launcher then i pressed data files and loade loose files. I didnt crash after pressing start game. Will Uppdate comment if it crashes.

Update..

Still works for me.

[DarmanORC]

I'm not sure how to fix this. I have tried EVERYTHING

[Hittmo]

Publicado originalmente por MLGDarman:

I'm not sure how to fix this. I have tried EVERYTHING

have you tried to go in to data files in the launcher menu and check off loose files? that worked for me. i also changed win7 theme to basic. =) been working for about 2 hours now =D

[DarmanORC]

let me check, I might need help though :P

[DarmanORC]

I have to reinstall it first xD

[Sarlar]

The game crashes with the steam overlay window. You can set Steam in offline mode whenever you want to play, or go into properties and uncheck "Enable Steam Communtity in game". Hope it helps.

Also, on a sidenote, have you also made the line iNumWthreads=1( or 2)???? I do not know, if that is the exact thing it is called, but it is needed. Hope it helps.

[Hittmo]

Publicado originalmente por Sarlar:

The game crashes with the steam overlay window. You can set Steam in offline mode whenever you want to play, or go into properties and uncheck "Enable Steam Communtity in game". Hope it helps.

Also, on a sidenote, have you also made the line iNumWthreads=1( or 2)???? I do not know, if that is the exact thing it is called, but it is needed. Hope it helps.

forgot to mention that i did that to. but it didnt work for me. i also downloaded somthing that was called d3d9.dll but i only have it on my desktop. have not plased it in anny spesific folder for fallout 3. For me the games started working after changing win7 theme to basic and i went in to data files and checked loose files. Started without anny trouble. =)

[DarmanORC]

Publicado originalmente por Sarlar:

The game crashes with the steam overlay window. You can set Steam in offline mode whenever you want to play, or go into properties and uncheck "Enable Steam Communtity in game". Hope it helps.

Also, on a sidenote, have you also made the line iNumWthreads=1( or 2)???? I do not know, if that is the exact thing it is called, but it is needed. Hope it helps.

I've tried the second thing, not the first thing

[DarmanORC]

I'm reinstalling it now, I'll let you know if either of your suggestions work

[Emo Feral Canine]

It crashes for me when I click start new game :\