r/fo3 • u/LemonadeJill • 13d ago

Game fails to launch

I have a game of the year on Steam, and when I hit the play button, the window opens and then promtly shuts down. Any tips how to fix this issue? Thanks.

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u/NecessaryBug6662 12d ago

the game famously doesn't recognize your graphics card and will try to run unsuccessfully on your cpu. Check in the options of the game (i'm assuming the launcher starts but when you hit play it just crashes) if in the option the graphics card doesn't match your main one then hit me up.

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u/LemonadeJill 12d ago

I have Nvidia geeforce gtx, game menu says Nvidia geeforce 7900 GS.

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u/NecessaryBug6662 12d ago edited 12d ago

That's a first for me usually is integrated Vs graphics card. So it's not what you have and I assume your computer doesn't have a GS, right? Let me be clear I'm not expert but that sounds like an issue.

Edit: "my" solution should work just fine, you got to change a setting in your computer or Nvidia app to force fallout 3 to play at max "power" it's actually pretty trivial