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by Brian Leahy, Dec 20, 2010 5:00pm PST

This weekend was spent mostly playing and watching Blizzard products with my addiction to StarCraft II back in full swing--including the finals of GSL3 and the EG Masters Cup--and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm holding my interest longer than I thought it would.

I also had a chance to play a lot of iPhone games and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Overall, it was a good gaming weekend. I'm off to record Weekend Confirmed for next week due to the upcoming Christmas break later this week.

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The 2010 Steam Holiday Sale has begun. Hide your wallet.

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Humble Indie Bundle #2 makes over 1 million and adds Steam support.

Gran Turismo 5 gets a massive patch.

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So, I just picked up Fallout 3: GOTY from the Steam sale and apparently, it's not supported on Windows 7 and will wind up crashing more often than not. I can't even get past the initial character creation screen without the game freezing on me and forcing me to ctrl+alt+del and end the process.

Apparently, it's not an officially supported with Windows 7 which is a complete load of shit, according to Bethtesda's site :

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/info/faq.html

Somebody please tell me I just didn't piss away $20 on a non-working game. I'm considering petitioning it with Valve and asking for a refund, but I've never had to do that for any game before, ever. I really don't want to go through that whole process. Has anyone ever had to do that before? Is Valve pretty flexible on offering either a credit or a refund for a game? The official Steam page doesn't show any sort of disclaimer or warning about the game being incompatible with Windows 7, so I think I may have a case for it.

Dec 20, 2010 5:07pm PST

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So, I just picked up Fallout 3: GOTY from the Steam sale and apparently, it's not supported on Windows 7 : jingletard
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  Funny, i have windows 7 and it runs fine. Doesn't even crash anymore. Did you update your drivers? : Dschinghis Khan
  - Every single other game runs absolutely fine for me. BF:BC2, L4D 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, etc. All m... : jingletard
- It runs fine on Windows 7 for me. : noxiousgg
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  I played the Steam version of Fallout 3 GOTY on Windows 7. Plenty of crashes throughout but that's to be ... : pyide
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    Yeah, I can't even get the thing to get past the character creation deal. I made it once but then it jus... : jingletard
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      Weird. I could still get into the game and play it but it would crash with semi-regularity with a decent ... : pyide
      
      It's not officially supported by Bethesda. I don't think that means incompatible but I think that means ... : jingletard
    - You try running it in XP mode or something? Win7/64 here and Fallout 3 runs great. : dognose
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  I had the crashing problem too in W7 but there's a config file fix for it. I dont recall what it is and I... : vynn
  - Yeah, I've been messing with disabling multicore support in the ini files but no dice so far. I've also ... : jingletard
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  Avast was causing a lot of crashes for me. Might want to try turning off any active antivirus, spyware an... : Havoc1c4
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    I don't think that engine likes overclocking either. : pyide
    - Yeah, I'm using a stock setup. I think I'm gonna beg Valve for a refund and see where that takes me. : jingletard
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  Wow that's pretty gay. I just purchased the game and I'm on windows 7 as well. : thecatinthehat
  - Post if it runs successfully or not, I'd like to hear some more results. : jingletard
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  Works ok for me under win7-x64. Are you running anything out of the norm such as custom drivers or codec ... : jasoncrowley
  - I just uninstalled every single codec pack or any unnecessary software on my Windows install, and I'm red... : jingletard
- I just reinstalled FO3 on my Win7 64 bit machine a few weeks ago and it runs great. I've had one crash i... : TickHeadDog
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  It works fine on my C2D system with Win 7 x 64. It does NOT work with my i7 win 7 x 64. The ini fix for... : Volatus32x
  - Yeah, I'm using a core i3 so I dunno if that's causing the issue. : jingletard
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  I ran it and the New Vegas expansion on Windows 7. It crashed a few times. But only after hours of play. The game was responsible. Not Windows 7.
  
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  I ran it and the New Vegas expansion on Windows 7. It crashed a few times. But only after hours of pl... : CRasterImage
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  Do you have I think it's called ffmod or something? Comes in CCCC and other codec packs. Pretty sure that... : AgentPothead
  - ffdshow I think : crummynz
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  what? it's worked fine for me on windows 7. : hirez
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    I searched around for Fallout 3 Windows 7 crash and it returned 3/4 of a million results, the first few p... : jingletard
    - Hopefully it's just a codec thing. I remember Oblivion having problems with FFDShow way back when, and it... : pyide
- yeah it locked up constantly on W7, with both ATI and Nvidia cards. basically horrible programming that t... : brewsterdog
- It works fine in Win7 for me, no crashes. Fix your shit! : Sapiens
- you aren't the only one. i had a perma bug in vista and tried it under windows 7. got tons of crashes b... : handofthrawn
- i had problems until i did the multicore fix http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/20199-fallout-3-windows-7-... : shavenewok
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  HELP4U: I had the exact same problem, and many others have it as well. Never mind the "it works fine" ... : ramshot
  - Also, forgot to add, the mod really does what it says. The game is now very smooth all around, instead of... : ramshot
  - tagged for fallout 3 help when i get back in the game. thanks for the post : handofthrawn
  - Fallout 3 Tweaks that actually work? Thanks! : sevogajre
- Erm, FO3 worked like a charm for me in Win7, even with a load of mods. : Mr. Goodwrench
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  I've tried it with a fresh install of Vista 64 bit and Win 7 64 bit. It works fine. You've got a conflict... : Dr_Cube
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    It continues to work fine for me even when I have a bunch of mods. I don't know what you and handofthrawn... : Dr_Cube
- Fallout 3 is just a buggy game. No matter the OS or the console version. : razlebol

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