now I'll be playing a modded game but I'll be refering to gopher as he's using most of the mods I want so this is about steam gfwl and goty now games for windows was mentioned in a topic not sure which one but is it a easy install and where would I get what I need for fo3 to work on win7

Don't install it in Program Files and see these threads for the tweaks needed to get it to run

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1454296-falloutlauncherexe-wont-run-on-windows-8/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1451540-any-way-to-stabilize-fallout-3-on-windows-8/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1448428-fallout3-stable-on-win7-64/

The issues for 7 and 8 are the same.

will try those soon thank you

just bought fo3 from steam it installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 3 goty automatically what do I do

Uninstall it and put the game into C:\Games\Fallout 3

i don't know how to change destination