Game has never worked and still doesnt work

[BookItFaster]

25 hours of play time, no thats me just constantly crashing over 6 years and trying to get the game to work lmfao

[worm_master]

works ok for me, lol u may look at my play time and go huh? but I've nearly completed the main game, in under 7h I'm on the 1st act of the last mission, where u take the purifier.

[Bandy]

works for me as well...

[Smiley berry]

if fo3 not working for you try this link https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2827851381

[Illtempered]

lol I feel your pain. It took a lot of work but I finally got a stable build. It can be done. If you haven't tried it, start by installing it on a different drive than the main.

[Claybot]

Works for me but it took quite a few try's to get it to work, still get lots of random crashes, F5 helps alot.

[WhateverWorks]

I mean my 12 hours was a full playthrough, I never got around to playing the DLC and didn't find the modding community to add enough to keep me invested. But the game definitely has/does work. It's had some issues over the years, particularly when it was tied to GFWL. But it's always been able to run, sometimes with some extra tweaking and fixing. Currently I'm able to just install it and play it as is no problem.

I'm on a Ryzen 7, an RTX 3060, and Win 11.

[davidb11]

The game works, it just is really buggy and explodes randomly.

[Carinth]

I don't get any crashes, played the entire game with 0 crashes.
The pinned guide doesn't fix crashes.

This will
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616529928
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/21888
And here's the full playthrough
https://youtu.be/YAc2Ohu9Wcg

[BookItFaster]

I used to be able to get through the intro in the game as soon as i leave the vault i would crash. Now as soon as i click launch the game just closes lol. Feel free to keep posting ideas that don't work

[chakkman]

It would help if you gave some details about your computer and the operating system you run. You know, some info which may point to what's going wrong.

Fallout 3 runs perfectly on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Always did.