Windows 8 Fallout 3 GOTY

[Kingoswy66]

I have been trying to play Fallout 3 GOTY for severl days. The game has installed (via Steam) but whenever I click on Play nothing happens. I have changed the properties to Run as Administrator and tried the Compatability as Windows XP, Vista and 7. Nowall I get is "The ordinal 42 could not be located in the dynamic link library D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 3 goty\xlive.ddl. This despite the dll file being present in the folder mentioned and the Windows System 32 folder. Can anyone help please?

 

[kemical]

Try installing the latest version of this: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-gb/Live/Pages/livejoin.aspx no need to create an account or anything just install it. I tried to play it on win 8 a while ago but as the DLC's wouldn't install I didn't bother playing it. Let me know if you get any further..

 

[Kingoswy66]

Hi, Thanks for the advice. I tried installing the application but am still getting the same error message and GFW won't run either!

 

[kemical]

Hi,

been doing some reading up via google. See this help page via the fallout forums as some changes are needed for it to run on win 8:
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1465357-installing-fallout-3-with-windows-78-and-xp/

 

[kemical]

Managed to get my copy running on 8.1 so it should run fine on win 8. Use the link I posted above on how.