Fallout 3: Not working on windows 7...

[Rising Phoenix]

Hey folks.

Bought Fallout 3 GOTY the other day and though it instals fine. I get this error when trying to launch it:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks/Fallout 3/xlive.dll is either not designed to run on windows or contains an error"

Anyone know of a fix?

:(

Thanks in advance!

RP

[Demon 997]

I'd try uninstalling and reinstalling to start. I don't have Fallout 3, but NV (which is the same engine) runs fine on my machine.

[Hawriel]

I found that it doesnt like quad cores

[Rising Phoenix]

Demon: Tried that... several times...no luck :-(

Hawriel: Read about that. Apparently there's a way to make it run of one or something...

[factotum]

You need to look at setting the affinity of the Fallout process if you want it to run on only one core. The error certainly doesn't sound like a crash due to wrong number of cores, though.

[Androgeus]

After a quick googling, it seems that file is to do with windows live ( I had a feeling it would). There are two solutions you could try. Firstly see if you actually have windows live installed ( there is probably an installer on the disk) or you could download this (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1086://) windows live disabler.

[Rising Phoenix]

Hey folks

The issues have solved. For the windows live one, I just removed the damn thing from the game's directory. Then it kept crashing, I just coded it so that it would run of two cores rather than all four.

Thanks for your suggestions and help :-)

R.P.