Thanks to West1Nomad for this Gamebryo engine render fix, credits to him:
Using the Midhrastic ENB.
Okay, so I backtracked and sourced the issue.
What that message basically means is that the engine is having problems launching the game at the given resolution. I'm assuming your settings are: "fullscreen", and "1920x1080". The ENB I chose apparently doesn't like this.
The solution I found that actually worked was this: I made the game launch itself in windowed, and then forced my ENB to put it into borderless.
1). Go into the vanilla launcher for Fallout 3, "FalloutLauncher.exe" 2). Tick the box named "windowed", click "OK" and exit the launcher. This will set the game to launch in windowed mode, but we don't want that - or at least I don't. 3). Go into the Fallout 3 directory where you put the files from your chosen ENB, find the file named "enblocal.ini" 4). Open the file so that you can edit it's contents. 5). Press Ctrl+F to search the contents of the file, and put in "ForceBorderless" into the search-field. 6). Exchange "false" with "true". The line should look just like this: "ForceBorderless=true" 7). Ctrl+S to save, exit the file. 7). Launch the game with FOSE.
Voila, a working fallout 3 ENB on windows 10, although; in borderless.
You could alternatively change the line under "ForceBorderlessFullscreen=false" to be true, but that didn't really do anything for me.
November 2019 solution for Win 10, with a new clean FO3 goty install (not the GOG version): Ive no FOSE or mod manager or mods installed at all (Ive only updated the Windows Live Update).
Fix was, make sure no files are RUNNING IN ANY COMPATABILITY mode!!! and use latest ENB by Boris (0.322) and latest Midhrastic version (v2).
Every guide tells you to run fo3.exe and launcher, and fose launcher with sp3 compatability, turns out this was the culprit. I noticed that even after reinstalling fo3, the exe files still retained their previous 'Run in compatability for service pack 3' setting, and didnt reset automatically to default- so double check ALL exe files.. Also make sure Antialiasing in steam launcher is OFF, else get square textures.
Thank you, removing compatibility after countless attempts, windows reinstall, game reinstalls i thought i was the one going mad, your one simple suggestion worked! Remove all requirements for a specific compatibility mode to run fall out with, this includes the launcher, exe file for fallout even the fall out script extender they must all be set in the unchecked box for any required run mode. Who ever said the comments section wasn't a place to find help? Hear me out as a testifying active player in 2021 this works! If your running into the infamous error code for the fallout.exe> Fallout3.exe Application error " The Application was unable to start correctly (0xc000001d) Click OK to close the application >
Sadly this doesn't seem to work anymore, as I'm still getting the same crash even after doing this. I wast trying to install the Chromatic Melancholy enb.
After trying for DAYS, reinstalling, modding again, over and over, could get everything but ENB. Following this got it working perfectly. Kudos and endorsement as soon as the site lets me. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you you absolute champion. A few guides incorrectly recommend turning on the compatibility settings, which was what caused the crashes for me (I have the GOG version). Finally fixed!
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Ive no FOSE or mod manager or mods installed at all (Ive only updated the Windows Live Update).
Fix was, make sure no files are RUNNING IN ANY COMPATABILITY mode!!! and use latest ENB by Boris (0.322) and latest Midhrastic version (v2).
Every guide tells you to run fo3.exe and launcher, and fose launcher with sp3 compatability, turns out this was the culprit.
I noticed that even after reinstalling fo3, the exe files still retained their previous 'Run in compatability for service pack 3' setting, and didnt reset automatically to default- so double check ALL exe files..
Also make sure Antialiasing in steam launcher is OFF, else get square textures.
Thank you!!!
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I use Compatibility mode