i'm trying to play fallout 3 on my laptop and when i press new game it tries to load me a new game but then the pc tells me fallout has stopped working. can some one help me?
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i'm trying to play fallout 3 on my laptop and when i press new game it tries to load me a new game but then the pc tells me fallout has stopped working. can some one help me?
Assuming it isn't pirated...this might be a problem with your computer's hardware/system requirements.
You could also try updating your drivers. Buggy drivers tend to do bizarre things like that from time to time. If I had to take a guess, I'd guess you have an integrated graphics card, which is really bad for gaming. My 1-year-old laptop barely runs Halo, and it's because of my sucky graphics card.Quote:
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2 GB System RAM
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
NVIDIA GeForce 200 series
NVIDIA Geforce 9800 series
NVIDIA Geforce 9600 series
NVIDIA Geforce 8800 series
NVIDIA Geforce 8600 series
NVIDIA Geforce 8500 series
NVIDIA Geforce 8400 series
NVIDIA Geforce 7900 series
NVIDIA Geforce 7800 series
NVIDIA Geforce 7600 series
NVIDIA Geforce 7300 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
ATI HD 4800 series
ATI HD 4600 series
ATI HD 3800 series
ATI HD 3600 series
ATI HD 3400 series
ATI HD 2900 series
ATI HD 2600 series
ATI HD 2400 series
ATI X1900 series
ATI X1800 series
ATI X1600 series
ATI X1300 series
ATI X850 series
If updating your drivers doesn't work and if you have compatible system requirements, the only other thing I could find is to remove the file d3d9.dll and replace it with this one: d3d9.dll . This will "lie" to the game and trick it into thinking it has compatible hardware.
Source: Fallout 3 - Windows 7 - New Game Crash - PC-Gaming - General
yeah.. i actually just found that .dll file out on the internet just a little bit ago and it gets me further, but then it doesn't want to respond after awhile... and yeah, my graphics card is shit. intel(R) HD graphics or some bull shit. and btw.. it's not pirated lol.
can i buy graphic cards for my laptop? and if so, would it be hard to install?
It... is possible, depending on your laptop certain models will not be upgradable. If it is upgradable, there a 95% chance that it will be very difficult.
go figure..
Yup... My advice is just buy a Desktop. Almost everything is upgradable, and there more bang for your buck.
If you really want to play fallout on a laptop of your specs, get Fallout 2. It is better anyway and very easy to run. You can pick it up for 10 bucks on steam, I believe.
i'll look into that, thanx