Kurina
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Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate + Shooter is on GMG for $3.60 with coupon GMG20-ZB5D1-93X49. Registers on Steam as well. Always wanted these but never had a PS3, so am pretty stoked to snag them at this price. Been having a good time with Shooter so far.
rowe33
4904
No bargain deal here but Amazon is offering a one-time $5 donation to the charity of your choice if you buy anything before 1/1/14 by starting at the smile.amazon site:
Help a charity out!
You can also use the smile.amazon.com site any other time and a portion of your purchase will go to your favorite charity also - this is really a win-win situation, no drawbacks, no referral crap, etc.
Buyer beware - Fallout 3 GOTY does not play nice with Windows 7. Steam’s store page even has an alert saying the game does not support Windows 7. There are various homemade workarounds on the web for overcoming this, but it seems like a pain in the ass. Plus GFWL. Apparently Bethesda has said they have no intention of revisiting Fallout 3 to make it Win7 compatible.
GFWL on Fallout 3 can be ignored. Just don’t push the GFWL button on the main menu. Obviously, you won’t get cheevos, but you can safely play the game without GFWL enabled.
As for Win 7 issues, I never had any, but I can’t speak for everyone. I just experienced the normal bugs that come form Bethesda’s RPG engine.
Granath
4907
That is not what Steam says. It says Fallout 3 is not optimized for Windows 7. There is a big difference. I played FO3 GOTY on Win 7 with no problems. My son played the game on his PC with no problems. As always a few people may have issues but most of these are solved easily (like installing the unofficial patch: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/19122/?).
I played FO3 and all the dlcs on Windows 7 just fine, with tons of Nexus mods too.
Everything is ok!!! :p
That is not what the internet says:
Help! Fallout 3 GOTY won’t work on Windows 7
Fallout 3 Won’t Run in Windows 7
Fallout 3 Crashing on Launch 64-bit Windows 7
After some research it would appear that the game has issues with quad-core processors and 64-bit versions of the Win7 and Win8 OS. Obviously it predates these, and was never optimized to run in such environments. Some folks report success with some INI tweaks, UAC workarounds and GFWL trickery. Here’s a Bethesda forum thread with fixes. Seems like a lot of effort to go through to make the game work if you’re unlucky enough to be one of those effected.
Thus I stand by my Buyer Beware warning.
It works fine on Windows 7 if you make the slightest effort to get it to do so. Having to tweak an ini file is not that demanding. Yeah, it will still crash some, because that’s what Bethesda games do EVERYWHERE. They’re even happy to crash on consoles. Suggesting it should be avoided on Windows 7 is misinformation at best.
The mod situation is kind of a pain in the balls compared to Skyrim, but that’s a whole different deal. The mod community has improved standards quite a bit since FO3. On the plus side, it has less of the “your game is ruined forever because scripts” thing going on.
I played it on 64-bit Windows 7, and it’s one of the few Xbox/GFWL where I got all the achievements. It did crash a little bit, but not as much as Morrowind back in the day.
I’m sad I can’t play Fallout 3. Last time I tried I got serious waking and sleeping nightmares.
What’s a waking nightmare like and why did Fallout 3 induce them?
I had nightmares when I was wide awake. I’d lie there, stare at the dark and just see shit and expect it to jump out at me. I think somehow the apocalyptic visuals hit too close to home.
Clay
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I’ve tried playing on Win 7 64 bit, on a beefy laptop with Optimus setup, and I have a fair amount of crashing issues, even with .ini tweaks. It seems to crash as soon as I think that it’s not going to crash again.
My wife was unable to get through Fallout 3. She loved Oblivion and Skyrim, but Fallout 3 was “too lonely and too upsetting” in her words.
How many mods are you using? I noticed it crashed more the more mods I installed, so I pared it down to just the visual mods that actually made a dramatic difference, which meant I uninstalled most of them, and then it crashed a lot less. It’s been too long, I don’t remember which mods I ended up using in the end.
Clay
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None, actually. Just vanilla Fallout 3.
Yeah, weird, I too have no problem with Skyrim. I think it’s far enough removed from our reality to be an issue.
Sorry to have derailed the thread. My intent wasn’t that nobody should purchase the game, just that people understand that they could have issues with it in Windows 7 with certain PC setups, and that it may not be “download and play” in the same way we’re used to with 99% of Steam games. In other words, “buyer be advised” (beware).
That said I’m buying it myself as for $7.50 (I’m going to pair it with The Bureau : XCOM Declassified) it’s cheaper than trying to buy all the DLC for my retail box copy of vanilla FO3.
Another person who’s had no problems whatsoever with FO3 GOTY and Win7 here. Lots of mods, etc.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 however does not work worth a shit on my machine. Stutters continually. Apparently it’s an amd driver issue.
