I recently purchased fallout 3 GOTY and checked on can you run it if i could run it, It said that my sony Vaio laptop met the minimum and half of the reccomended. the issue is when i put the 1st disk in it doesnt load or come up with anything that indicates fallout im not sure if i should just wait it out or look for a solution, by the way the second disk works but cant function without the first disk. any Help would be much appreciated

If you can't "open" disc 1 via the computer then it may be a bad disc. if there is an an area on the "Data" side that looks off-color from the rest of that side it could be a "bad press". though there are other reasons why a disc may not work.

It could be scratched up horribly.

another reason could be that the disc may just not work with that disc drive

Thank you but the disk loads and spins but it doesnt register anywhere

And btw is there any other way to change my disc drive, the dlc disk is fully installed somehow aswell.

So, it acts like it's a blank disc?


I don't know the Vaio laptop so I don't know if the disc drive is swappable but even if it's permanently mounted there are external drives available but I think it would be best to find out the cause of the issue before getting one of those.

on the DLC disc being installed: if memory serves that's supposed to install in same path as Fallout 3 (whereever that is directed to) as it does no good to install first because it patches Fallout 3 as well as add the DLC

So I would search the hard drive for the location of the file "Fallout3" (minus the quotation marks) as that is one of the files patched

Disk 2 works and loads the pipboy logo on the cd drive thing but disk one, the main game doesnt show anything when i put it in. I wonder if i should just wait it out and see if it installs eventually

thanks il search

that's odd, it's usually disc 1 that loads up fast & Disc 2 is typically the one that take awhile to load up due to it's design requires for the whole disc to load in to the computer's RAM first

EDit,

Question:does your disc 2 have the folders BIN, DXREDIST, G4WL & Screenshots +about 16 other files visibleif you open that Disc?

if it does then it's mis-labeled & truly is disc 1

i cant find it when i search and i've had the disk in for ages

no it doesnt sorry

Sorry, but I'm flummoxed probably just a bad disc then you might be able to exchange it for a working one

thankyou for the help il probably just return it or ask for advice from someone who can see the issue