

It’s a d3d9.dll file you have to download and place it into your Fallout 3 folder. Someone over at Nexus has released another method. If the solution above has not resolved your problem, do not worry. Game still crashes/freezes after applying the solution above – What to do? Right-click on the Fallout 3 application and choose the “Run as Administrator” option. Once you have done that, you have to go to – ĭownload and launch the client (required to make Fallout 3 work). Find them both (Steam -> Steamapps -> Common -> Fallout 3), right-click and select “Properties” then go to the compatibility tab to set their compatibility mode. If you use Windows 8, follow the instructions below :Īfter following the steps above, you have to set both the Fallout 3 launcher and Fallout 3 application’s compatibility mode to “Windows XP Service Pack 3”. Under it, insert the following line (if it’s already in the file, just change the value of it to “2”) : Of course, if the line is not there, add it anywhere above the Display category in the file. So it should look like the contents below : Search and find Fallout.ini and open it with a notepad.įind bUseThreadedAI and change the “0” to “1”.

Open the Documents folder, followed by the My Games folder and then Fallout 3. Click “Users”, followed by the name of your computer.

In the left-hand sidebar under “Computer”, select “OS (C:)”. If you have already launched the game in the past, assuming you’re using Windows 7, open the Start Menu and select Computer.

