If you are trying to play fallout through the GOTY edition through GOG this will make the game crash on launch. You need to Launch the game from the program files(86x) folder Fallout.exe . This bypasses the the box with play options etc and launches the game directly.
Download it Manually, Place the DLL into your Fallout 3 Folder in your Steam Folder. Place the ini file into your DOcuments/Fallout 3 FOlder. BAM it works
This will hurt your game's performance. Used to getting hundreds of FPS in Fallout 3? Well, now you're going to be seeing something closer to ~90 with horrible stuttering. Don't believe me? Check your frame time and 1% lows. You're realistically only going to be getting around 50-60 at best. This thing may also break mods such RH Iron Sights and textures for modded weapons. It might be this "fix" or might be AMD's driver or it might even be both.
The fix? Wait for AMD to update drivers. They're already aware of the issue if you read the release notes for the last driver. If their release cadence is anything to go by, they'll likely release another driver package near the end of May. Otherwise, there are other games to play in the meantime. The situation is shitty all around, but we don't really have much choice.
Try this New Vegas one instead: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62391?tab=description
It works for 3, NV, and TOTW.
Do not expect a graphics card vendor to update drivers for a deprecated version of DirectX and expect it to last forever; AMD and Nvidia have been randomly partially breaking DX9 support with driver updates since 2014 (pretty sure both use a dx9to12 translation api for modern GPUs). Basically, rolling back to a working driver or using a workaround are the full-proof methods (this has always been the nature of GPU drivers; they are a complicated beast).
You should cap it to 100 to keep lip-sync working properly. Either way, to fix the stuttering you need to use F3TF - Fallout 3 Tick Fix and you're not gonna get "50-60 at best".
As someone who's grown accustomed to playing with 30 fps, I won't worry about any potential framerate drops one bit. I just want to be able to play my game.
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This will hurt your game's performance. Used to getting hundreds of FPS in Fallout 3? Well, now you're going to be seeing something closer to ~90 with horrible stuttering. Don't believe me? Check your frame time and 1% lows. You're realistically only going to be getting around 50-60 at best. This thing may also break mods such RH Iron Sights and textures for modded weapons. It might be this "fix" or might be AMD's driver or it might even be both.
The fix? Wait for AMD to update drivers. They're already aware of the issue if you read the release notes for the last driver. If their release cadence is anything to go by, they'll likely release another driver package near the end of May. Otherwise, there are other games to play in the meantime. The situation is shitty all around, but we don't really have much choice.
It works for 3, NV, and TOTW.
Do not expect a graphics card vendor to update drivers for a deprecated version of DirectX and expect it to last forever; AMD and Nvidia have been randomly partially breaking DX9 support with driver updates since 2014 (pretty sure both use a dx9to12 translation api for modern GPUs). Basically, rolling back to a working driver or using a workaround are the full-proof methods (this has always been the nature of GPU drivers; they are a complicated beast).
Thanks for this! I used the dxvk wrapper as suggested in the GOG forums but the performance on my AMD handheld was atrocious. This is the way to go.