
What this does is validate your game, create fallout.ini and detect your graphics hardware.
After you click PLAY and the game is loading, click the “ ESC” button and exit the game.
Please note that the further steps won’t work if you are unsuccessful to click PLAY, so, you shouldn’t advance further until it is working. Once you are in the folder, delete all the files except the “ Saves” folder. If you are having a problem navigating to the location through the Run application, you can browse using File explorer and reach to the location specified. You should type your own system’s name when you execute this command.
Press Windows + R button and in the dialogue box, type “ C:\Users\ABC\Documents\My Games\Fallout 3”. If you still aren’t able to press PLAY, follow step 3, otherwise, proceed to step 4.
After updating if you are still not able to press PLAY, click on OPTIONS in the Fallout 3 menu and set your resolution to your desktop resolution.
If your game is crashing when you click play, you should update Games for Windows Live from here. After Installation launch Fallout 3 and press the Play icon. Install Fallout 3 normally in your C drive. We are assuming that you already have the installation file of Fallout 3 at hand. Yet, there are many steps you can perform to get it up and running. It should be noted that Fallout 3 was not designed for Windows 10, Fallout 4 is. Many users report that they face a compatibility issue when trying to run Fallout 3 on Windows 10.