F.E.A.R. 3 is not working with Windows 10

[dasolidproof]

I just recently upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7 and now all of sudden my copy of F.E.A.R. 3 won't boot up at all. Someone please help?

[Marius Ottesen Høllesli]

set combatibility mode windows 7 in fear 3 properties

[D.M.E]

I finally got it working....

Over the last couple of years I've made regular attempts to get Fear 3 working with my Windows 10 Pro PC, I've deleted the install and downloaded it to a different hard drive several times. I've also built a new PC in that time period which required a clean Operating System and Steam install but still I couldn't get the game to work.

Today I thought I'd try telling Steam to move it to a different drive rather than manually deleting and then re-installing it.
Once it had finished moving the install I tried starting the game and it worked.

The games finally working.

If like me you've been unable to get the game to run and have tried all the suggestions in this thread with no luck try telling Steam to move it to either a separate drive/partition or a different folder. Not delete it just move it.

I hope this helps some of you.

[dino.kos30]

If anyone still got a problem with booting up F.E.A.R. 3, below are steps to follow, which WB tech support emailed to me.

"Press the Windows key on the keyboard (which displays the Microsoft logo), and simultaneously press the 'R'.
An execution window (command prompt) will appear.
Type msconfig in the Open field and click OK. The System Configuration Utility opens.
Click the General tab.
Select the "Selective startup" option.
Uncheck the "Load startup items" check box.
Click the Services tab.
Make sure that the "Hide All Microsoft Services" option is selected.
Click Disable All.
Click OK.
Click Restart.
After rebooting (and logging in to Windows), a window will appear to confirm that "You used the system configuration utility to make changes to the way Windows is started." Click OK. The System Setup Utility appears. Do not click OK yet as this will prompt you to restart again. First take a test to see if the problem persists.

If performing these steps resolves the problem, you can use the System Configuration Utility to enable system services and third-party startup items one or more at a time (restarting the computer after activating items) to identify which system service or boot item is causing the conflict.

To reactivate all of them at once, simply select the Normal startup option on the General tab of the System Configuration Utility window, but this may cause the problem to recur."

I hope this will help, it is to me, the game's now running perfectly!!

[D.M.E]

Originally posted by dino.kos30:

If anyone still got a problem with booting up F.E.A.R. 3, below are steps to follow, which WB tech support emailed to me.

Thanks for posting this, I eventually got mine working but I'll copy paste this into my odds n' sods file so it's there if I ever need it in the future, Cheers.

[BadAtGames]

The verify files method worked for me to get past the 'logo appear, disappear, game doesn't start' issue.

[marcinciniak]

Hi, Guys. I had the same problem. Game didn't start. Showed me fear logo and that was that. I just wanted to add that checking files' integrity worked for me. Now i can play the game normally. Cheers.

[Dough Boy]

I'm having the same problem with Win 10 Pro 1809. I've reinstalled the game and checked the file integrity several times but still will not run.

[Dough Boy]

Originally posted by dino.kos30:

If anyone still got a problem with booting up F.E.A.R. 3, below are steps to follow, which WB tech support emailed to me.

"Press the Windows key on the keyboard (which displays the Microsoft logo), and simultaneously press the 'R'.
An execution window (command prompt) will appear.
Type msconfig in the Open field and click OK. The System Configuration Utility opens.
Click the General tab.
Select the "Selective startup" option.
Uncheck the "Load startup items" check box.
Click the Services tab.
Make sure that the "Hide All Microsoft Services" option is selected.
Click Disable All.
Click OK.
Click Restart.
After rebooting (and logging in to Windows), a window will appear to confirm that "You used the system configuration utility to make changes to the way Windows is started." Click OK. The System Setup Utility appears. Do not click OK yet as this will prompt you to restart again. First take a test to see if the problem persists.

If performing these steps resolves the problem, you can use the System Configuration Utility to enable system services and third-party startup items one or more at a time (restarting the computer after activating items) to identify which system service or boot item is causing the conflict.

To reactivate all of them at once, simply select the Normal startup option on the General tab of the System Configuration Utility window, but this may cause the problem to recur."

I hope this will help, it is to me, the game's now running perfectly!!

Having to do this every time I want to play Fear 3 is not an option. All of this just for one game isn't worth it.

[D.M.E]

Originally posted by Dough Boy:

I'm having the same problem with Win 10 Pro 1809. I've reinstalled the game and checked the file integrity several times but still will not run.

Try what worked for me, Go into the Games properties via Steam and tell it to move the install folder, for me a reinstall and a file integrity check didn't work but moving the games folder via Steam commands did which was very weird but hey it worked & it doesn't take long to try.

[rob0976]

Originally posted by edwinrodri:

OK guys, I could play it again. Don't know to how many of you this will work. The thing is that I bought the game on the Origin platform. Then I moved to steam because I was playing more often my Steam's games, so I was trying to run the game directly through the Steam platform, but that was my mistake. So, I was going to play again some of my games on the Origin platform and I saw the FEAR icon over there and ran it, and it worked as good as before. I hope for some of you this could be helpful. By the way, I had to do nothing else, just run the game on Origin insted of Steam.

It worked for me i'm surprised it's about time this game worked again i've played it for 30min with no problems so far.

[rob0976]

Originally posted by rob0976:

Originally posted by edwinrodri:

OK guys, I could play it again. Don't know to how many of you this will work. The thing is that I bought the game on the Origin platform. Then I moved to steam because I was playing more often my Steam's games, so I was trying to run the game directly through the Steam platform, but that was my mistake. So, I was going to play again some of my games on the Origin platform and I saw the FEAR icon over there and ran it, and it worked as good as before. I hope for some of you this could be helpful. By the way, I had to do nothing else, just run the game on Origin insted of Steam.

It worked for me i'm surprised it's about time this game worked again i've played it for 30min with no problems so far.

The only downside is i had to purchase it again through origin on top of already owning it on steam i clicked the install through origin that links it automatically to my steam account and i hit play button through origin and it worked.

[ViPER]

Old thread but I had the same issue recently. The splash screen would be all black and then nothing would happen. Turned out I had to close the Sonic Studio 3 (Realtek Audio) software in my taskbar. Just try to close every app running in the background one by one and then you can figure out what is keeping your game from running.

[KillerLex]

Moving game to other disk and return to first disk back is worked for me!
Windows 7 x64

[Beigemidnight]

Originally posted by ViPER:

Old thread but I had the same issue recently. The splash screen would be all black and then nothing would happen. Turned out I had to close the Sonic Studio 3 (Realtek Audio) software in my taskbar. Just try to close every app running in the background one by one and then you can figure out what is keeping your game from running.

Good tip. Turning off the X-Mouse Button Control program helped to launch this game.

[EllySmelly]

I wanted to play this lan with my bf & I found this forum, turns out the fix for having f.ear. run on windows 10 is to install vcredist_x86.exe. Its a 2008 distrubution of visual c runtime.. its hard to find on the net here it is from my drive. Cheers !
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YW9HZFuumK5XvB7CjRut_O0Fhl4Pc57L