Issues associated with launching and playing the game can often be resolved by changing the following display options: If you continue to experience issues, you can also try the following troubleshooting steps: Note: Fallout 3 is not optimized for Windows 7 and later operating systems Alternately, if you own Fallout 3 through the launcher, it will have GFWL installed along with it and may bypass the issue. If it does, click here for a direct download from Microsoft. It may prompt you to have Games for Windows Live installed. To resolve Fallout 3 performance issues on Windows 10, you should first ensure that you meet the game's minimum requirements and you have the latest NVIDIA or AMD graphics card drivers installed. The troubleshooting steps provided below will only work if you are not experiencing the above issue. If you would like to be notified of updates on this topic, please log into the website and select ' Subscribe to Article' on this page. When we have an update on this topic, we will update this article.
We are aware of an issue where new installs of Fallout 3 on Steam are failing due to Games for Windows Live not installing and missing the xlive.dll file.
