now before flaming me understand that i enjoyed playimng fallout 3 and new vegas at my friends house. i like these games alot.

my issue is fallout 3 crashes and crashes and crashes on anything that is not windows xp which is amazing but outdated, or windows vista which most every body HATES, including myself. i absolutely HATE windows vista!

i couldnt play this on my current pc cause im using windows 7 ultimate 64bit, and from what all my friends have told me, and from what i have read all over the internet, this game crashes every few minutes or such.

i have not yet purchased this game, nor have i purchased new vegas, nor have i purchased fallout 4. i will not be buying any of these games until this crashing is fixed. if i cant play and finish 3, then why on gods earth would i skip to new vegas or 4? wont buy them....not until it is fixed.

heck, the games might even sell better. like i mentioned "not many people like vista" so why not fix this? if fans made a fix then why not make an official one? look at the negative reviews on the steam page for this game, most of them are irritated for the same reason i wont buy this game, sadly they wasted their money on it beforehand...svcks to be them yet you could do something about it, and you'd make money off fixing it as id buy the game, and im sure others would too.

i mean it even says on the page when i look at it "not optimised for windows 7" so i said "hell no, not touching it" though i want to. wanna play it very badly. never beat it when i was at my buddies!!

Bethesda has never patched a game once they're done with it. It's been this way since 1986 and I expect it will continue to be this way in the future.

New Vegas has run decently for me with both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Occasional crash, but not so bad as to ruin it.

Have to agree with you on F3 though. It never ran very good on Windows 7 for me either.

Fallout 3 ran fine on my win7 pc and now runs fine on my win8.1 pc.

Here's a link to the solution. All I did was the ini tweak and the game runs fine:

http://help.bethesda.net/app/answers/detail/a_id/9977/~/what-should-i-do-if-fallout-3-does-not-work-with-my-windows-7%2F8-machine%3F

Actually for me Fallout 3 is the best performing Bethesda game for me and it has only crashed when I was testing out some mods. That was for Windows 7, 8.1. I have not played that much with 10 since I did not want to play too much Fallout or Bethesda's game before FO4 was released.

I did not even have to do the ini tweaks for multicore

It is best to follow the sticky here http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1465357-installing-fallout-3-with-windows-78-and-xp/

It is actually the OP's loss more than anything else.

I just can't imagine why someone would make an account and come to a forum that is exclusively Fallout 3 and do nothing but bash Bethesda and the game. And then think they won't be flamed.