Hello, i've recently found out about fallout 3 and am considering to buy it on my laptop. Ive tried can you run it and it failed but when i had oblivion it failed but i played on it fine. My spec is as follows: HP-G62-107SA
Intel Core i3 330M 2.13GHz CPU
Windows 7
Intel GMA HD onboard graphics with 762MB video Ram
2G Ram

Can anyone help me!! I want it! :fallout: :sadvaultboy:

This is why. Almost none of the intel graphics chipsets can run this game. And since you're on a laptop, you can't upgrade.

What, specifically, did "Can You Run It?" say failed?

That graphics card appears to be reasonably capable for an Intel chipset, and if it ran Oblivion then it can likely run Fallout 3.

"Can You Run It?" can give failures for very odd reasons, like saying that a Windows 7 machine will fail because Fallout 3 isn't certified for Windows 7.

This game is NOT Oblivion, so it will surely fail on that Intel graphic chipset this time around.

Why? That chipset seems to meet all the requirements. Probably have to play at low settings, but why "surely fail"?

Aside from being incredibly weak, Intel Integrated Graphic Chipsets tend to cut corners on shaders and required features that will not fool the game. These chipsets are not designed for gaming, but rather internet surfing and basic usage. They're all too common with notebooks and dirt cheap off-the-shelf PCs.

There is a dirty fix floating around to alter a .dll file to get these chipsets to work with the game, but I'm getting tired and reluctant of suggesting something to force the chipset to run it. These chipsets are not designed to take the stress that this game would put on it....you're potentially killing the life of the chip. Aside from that, altering a .dll file can potentially bork your operating system down the line as well.

On top of that, NO ONE has gotten the game to run on these things without that dirty hack.

Hi there, um I'm having the same issues with fallout 3. I bought it on recommendation, i use a windows vista home premium laptop, with 2.0 ghz and 3.0 gb memory ram, 32-bit operating system, and graphics are.....not sure on the # or whatever but it says: desktop performance for windows aero, and gaming graphics are: 3D business and gaming graphics performance. I'm wondering if any of those have something to do with the game. I've been having a lot of the similar problems, where i click to start a new game and it freezes then says error: windows is searching for a solution and will notify when one is found( it never does though). Any ideas?....cause i just bought the damn thing probly a day or 2 ago....i even tried defragmenting it, but all it said after about a day of doing it was that it was ENABLED, and then i clicked it again....and the same thing happened. This is probably a lot to take in with just one post, but i am in such a huge want of answers to this, i really wanna play it eheh...please help me, I would greatly appreciate any help.

Please make a new thread with your dxdiag there. (Also Windows Experience Index scores mean nothing, they are very weak benchmarks)

I'm honestly surprised by that. This newer chipset has SM 4.0 and the review I was looking at had COD: Modern Warfare 2 running on it, though not very well.

Except the shaders are usually 'faked' via the drivers rather than the hardware, hence why Fallout 3 doesn't belive it has 4.0 and won't run. Plus the Intels lack the horsepower didn't for serious gaming, hence why MW2 didn't run well.

Its not hard to get the requirements to run games. However, the problem arises when that hardware is slow and weak. You can build a kick ass bridge out of basal wood, but don't expect it to gold a car.

Does anyone have ANY idea on what is causing these problems on fallout 3?....I mean is there something that is keeping it from running right?....ANY IDEAS?!

Why do you continue to ask questions in this thread? Can you please make your own thread and put your dxdiag in it so we can see what may be causing you problems? How we can answer anything with you telling us NOTHING about the video card.

yes, fallout 3 does have higher requirements to oblivion and the problems were OS cos i have windows 7, RAM i have 1.9 and it requires 2 and video card.

Those are not going to prevent you from playing....plenty of people here run on Win 7. 2GB of RAM is "recommended" requirements..."minimum" is set to 1GB.

Your problem, as already stated in here, is that Intel Integrated Graphic chipset...that is all. Being that this is a notebook, you're likely not able to upgrade it to anything else either.

No the minimum was 2GB. this is the link t0 it:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/anolysis.aspx

I'm not sure it will work it will probably go to your computer requirements.

And if anyone is getting fallout 3 on windows 7 DONT GET IT! because fallout new vagas has the same requirements apart from it runs on windows 7 and is officialy supported

That doesn't make any sense. Just because Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas have the same requirements doesn't mean it is the same game.

And I have never had any problem with playing Fallout 3 on a computer with Windows 7 (played it on 3 computers including one laptop). But, ofcourse, I do have a real graphic card...

Fallout 3 does not have higher requirements than Oblivion. I can run Fallout with higher settings and still get better performance than I can with Oblivion. The engine has been optimized to perform better than the one used by Oblivion.

I run the game fine on Windows 7 SP1 beta. Its your video chipset. Its too weak to play the game. And the requirement for FO3 is slightly higher then it is for Oblivion. Oblivion needs shader 2.0 and FO3 needs 2.0b to play. People with 1GB of RAM have ran the game before. Its your video chipset like we have stated before. And Canyourunit.com is very inaccurate as Intel "fakes" the shaders for the chipset. We have seen this problem over and over again since launch, its the chipset, not the RAM or the OS.

Ok, so there's a listing for Vista (pretty much Win7) being 2GB as min. You're close enough to that amount (1.9GB) that it's not going to prevent you from playing the game. It might crash and fail if you had only 1GB of RAM due to running out of memory issue, but not when you're that close.

This is purely your INTEL INTEGATED GRAPHIC CHIPSET being the failure. This...is...not...a Win 7 issue. I don't know how many times we have to tell you that. And New Vegas is going to be lovely with Win 7.


Of course it does. Pentium 4 2.0GHz (OB) vs Pentium 4 2.4GHz (FO3).

FO3: video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)....must be Shader Model 2.0b at least.
OB: 128 MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver....using SM 2.0 cards....the Radeon 9550 would run this game, but not FO3.



FO3 performing better and optimized better...now those I can agree with.

Well yes, there is a shader difference, but the overall performance is much better than Oblivion. I can't have any AA with Oblivion if I want to keep a reasonable framerate outdoors. But with the same basic settings plus 2xAA, I still get a higher framerate with Fallout.

I'm currently having the same issue, that I can launch the game, but at the point where it should start the game locks and the task manager is showing me that the game isn't reacting anymore. I see the intro video, and where I should be born.. I have a black screen and the games locks up. I have to close it via the taskmanager.

I have a Core i3 350M with 4x2.26GHz, and integraded Intel HD chip implemented on the CPU and a NVIDIA 310M graphic chip for the needy games. The card itself has 512mb Ram. I have 4GB ram and Win 7 Professional x64. All drivers are up to date.

I select the NVIDIA card as videocard to run Fallout 3.

Please post a new thread with your dxdiag there. It gets confusing for everyone when multiple people post asking for help in the same thread.

Okay I'm doing that and thanks.

That's fine, but I never debated that the performance was better in FO3. I debated this comment:



The reality is that FO3 does have higher requirements