
Might need to dig save files out the old GFWL folder too.

If you already had FO3 installed on Steam, Bethesda suggest uninstalling and reinstalling to get it to play right. Unofficial tools have let players get around this before, but now it's just gone. GFWL has been dead for a while but the game still required it and would take a while trying to log in on startup. Bethesda started selling Fallout 3 without GFWL on GOG last year, so it's good to see Steam catch up.

Yup, it seems they've stripped GFWL from the regular edition too, obvs. The Steam announcement says plain and simple that Fallout 3 GotY "no longer requires Games for Windows Live" and "no longer installs Games for Windows Live dependencies". However, avoid the update if you play FO3 with lots of mods. Hooray! FO3 is still busted because Bethesda haven't updated the game to run happily on modern Windows, but I'll take any opportunity to dance on GFWL's grave. Of via the loader.After 13 years, Fallout 3 has finally removed Microsoft's reviled (and broken) Games For Windows Live service from the Steam release. To download DLC, launch fallout3.exe directly instead Don't worry about beingīanned or anything like that, everything still works when runningįallout normally. Modifications are inherently incomptible. As Live operates as aĬheat-detection tool similar to Punkbuster or VAC, FOSE's in-memory Polish DVD version of Fallout 3 (it uses SafeDisc copy protection on Fallout3.exe)įOSE is incompatible with Windows Live, so when running viaįose_loader.exe, Live will be disabled. (it encrypts the Fallout3.exe) - download the game from Steam if you would like to use a digital download service Russian DVD version of Fallout 3 (it uses Starforce This is a stable and supported release of FOSE, so modders are free to release mods based upon it.ĭVD and Steam builds 1.0.0.15, 1.1.0.35, both versions of 1.4.0.6,ġ.0.0.12 (the original pre-patch version of Fallout) - if you have this version, update to 1.7.0.3 Latest loader: (adds support for Russian 1.7.0.3) I do not have a timeframe for when FOSE can be updated to this new version. This does two things: removes GFWL, and updates the compiler to VS2019.

update (if you are seeing CRC = D32E228B errors): Bethesda has released an update labeled 1.7.0.4 on Steam. files on disk, so there areĬontributions from: Timeslip, Elminster EU

Modifying the Fallout3.exe or the G.E.C.K. (ianpatt), Stephen Abel (behippo), and Paul Connelly (scruggsywuggsyįallout Script Extender, or FOSE for short, is a modder's resource thatĮxpands the scripting capabilities of Fallout 3.
