How To Optimize Fallout 3 For Windows 10

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By now Ladies & Gentlemen, you're probably frustrated with Windows 10 non running Fallout iii properly. Crashes, Stutters, etc. After months of searching the web deeply for fixes and tweaks, I have managed to go my game to where I no longer crash whatsoever. I'll explain all the tweaks and optimizations I did. Notation: You Demand FOSE FOR SOME OF THESE. (FallOut Script Extender)

Permit me know how these tweaks get for you lot! I know that these tweaks take been here for years, just they aren't centralized for everyone to observe, and people can forget some of them, along some people not fifty-fifty knowing about some of these fixes. If y'all're feeling generous, I would appreciate your endorsement to get this further out there for others to benefit from. Fallout three is such an amazing game, so I made this for lovers of the game like myself to proceed the experience polish & pleasurable.

I.    Mods from other authors
Ii.   Heap Allotment
Iii. Compatibility Mode
IV. .INI Files
V.   DO Non USE "Fallout Stutter Remover"
Half-dozen. Decompressing .BSA Files
7. Update Your Windows 10
VIII.Update Your Graphics Drivers
Nine. CPU Core Affinity
10.   Cleaning Mods
XI. Cleaning the DLC
XII. Mods causing Crashes
Xiii.Optimizing LOD
14.Update FO3's Audio Files
XV. Bug Fixes
XVI.Defragmentation
XVII.     Cleaning Junk Files
18.    Update your Visual C++ Redistributables
XIX.Optimizing your Power Settings
20. Repairing Windows 10 Errors 1. Mods from other authors FO3 Modern Limit Prepare - Fixes a MASSIVE crashing bug
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24056

This plugin fixes the Fallout 3 Mod Limit problems. It allows a maximum of 255 plugins to be loaded. It can as well cause an increase in FPS, remove game stutter, and permit for faster loading times especially when using a large number of mods.

THIS IS A MUST-Take FIX Fifty-fifty WITHOUT USING ANY MODS! IT WILL Go on YOUR GAME FROM HAVING Astringent Bug THAT CAUSE CRASHING. It also means yous exercise not have to merge plugins anymore as long as you lot keep your plugin count to 255 at nearly! Every bit a event I have removed the merging plugins department. NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash - Speaks for itself
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/53635/

As well grab DisableProcessWindowsGhosting v2 from the optional files likewise, and place it in the Data/fose/plugins folder.

This fix works for Fallout three too, not only New Vegas.

OneTweak - Borderless Windowed Mode for Fallout three. Currently includes: Alt-tab functionality, Double Cursor set up, and of grade Borderless Window.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/21337

A massive problem that seems to crusade crashes is Fullscreen mode. I am unsure why, probably a buggy coding problem with the game (thanks Todd Howard). Borderless Fullscreen circumvents this problem.

Loot (Load Order Optimization Tool) ] - Optimizes which plugins for your mods load first.
https://loot.github.io/

EXTREMELY Necessary when using mods, having a mod loading in the wrong order can cause crashes.

Unofficial Fallout three Patch - Fixes bugs that Bethesda decided to never touch.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/19122/ 4GB Patcher - Enables Fallout 3 to apply 4GB (three.75GB) RAM instead of being limited to 2GB.
https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

With the 4GB patcher, patch the following .exe:

Fallout3.exe

Games for Windows Alive Disabler - Disables the need for GFWL.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/1086/

Fallout 3 seems to not want to run without this installed, then this is a must if you practice non desire to install Games for Windows Alive! This is one of the biggest known causes of crashing likewise Fullscreen mode existence enabled as said to a higher place.

If you lot have the Steam version of Fallout 3, and exercise a 'file integrity check' of Fallout three, DOING THAT WILL RESET ALL MODIFICATIONS TO ANY ORIGINAL GAME FILES, INCLUDING THE 4GB PATCH. Never do an integrity check on Steam! You will lose any and all tweaks to the original game files!

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two. Heap Allocation

Increases the initial heap size to 768MB (Vanilla is 200MB).
Heap size is customisable in the INI, highest information technology tin go to is at 768MB.

https://world wide web.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/23417

Information technology should assistance reduce lag when opening inventory and pipboy menus.

Download the file and install both files to: Data/fose/plugins. Open up the .ini this mod gives you and change information technology from 400 to 768.

3. Compatibility Mode

Fallout 3 was designed to run on XP/Vista. When Fallout three came out, Service Pack 3 was out. Vista was equally well, but I experience that Fallout three ran perfect on XP itself because that is what it was designed for.

Go to your Data binder, and right click fose_loader, go to Backdrop at the bottom. Go to compatibility mode, and set "Run this program in compatibility mode:" to Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Likewise, bank check at the lesser "Run this program as an administrator."

Do this for both the Fallout3.exe and FalloutLauncher.exe as well.

If yous get an fault maxim "xlive.dll missing" from trying to run in compatibility way, download the xlive.dll in the download section (taken from my game'due south files).

4. INI Files

Included in the downloads is my .INI file. Notation: I accept top of the line hardware, so I have optimized my INI file for PC'due south that can handle Fallout three with no issues (It has Fallout 3's settings set to highest).

IF YOU Take A VERY Low END PC, USE MY .INI FILE WITH CAUTION, FOR IF YOUR Figurer STRUGGLES TO Even RUN FALLOUT three WITH MAX GRAPHIC SETTINGS, It WILL PROBABLY STRAIN IT Further. It was made assuming your estimator tin can handle Fallout 3 on Maximum Graphical Settings. (Information technology'southward the 2020's, if yous're still gaming on a 2009 irish potato from years ago, you need a new calculator, that is ridiculous. Even so y'all shouldn't be running Windows 10 on such an incapable set of hardware). At present, I'm not going to become into the whole mumbo-jumbo near what lines I changed, I inverse a bunch of lines, you tin can check for yourself if yous're familiar with .ini settings, but the majority of people hither are not so I don't experience that it is necessary. Archive Invalidation is checked in the .INI file, also as multiple MultiThreading options. Again, this is assuming your processor and graphics card have no problem running Fallout 3.

Two lines I did set were:

bPreemptivelyUnloadCells=0
bSelectivePurgeUnusedOnFastTravel=1

Note: THESE AREN'T THE ONLY LINES I Changed. USE THE .INI FILES.

I do not recommend bPreemptivelyUnloadCells to exist prepare to one (enabled) because it causes stuttering everytime you walk into a new cell. This is acquired by the game'southward engine unloading data it thinks isn't needed or going to exist used from the previous cell. Go out it set to 0, reverse to what other guides say. This setting is for those who have 1GB of RAM or less, who need more RAM to be freed because of unused cell data.

bSelectivePurgeUnusedOnFastTravel is fine at being set up to ane , as it unloads data but when fast traveling. No stuttering is acquired by this every bit the unloading occurs during loadscreens. I use this every bit Fallout 3 still tin can only get upwards to 3.75GB of RAM with the 4GB patch, so it is limited to a small amount to utilize all the same. Purging unused data from a location y'all are coming from (such as across the map) is beneficial because that information isn't needed of course (you're somewhere else in the game).

Fallout 3 was DESIGNED to run on 2 cores at most for the PC, as at the time the mainstream processors were the Intel Core 2 Duo's. As such I take set the INI files to use at most 2 cores of your processor.

Fallout 3 DOESN'T PLAY WELL WITH More than 2 CORES BEING USED. THERE IS NO CHANGING THIS (unless they remaster it with a 64-bit engine of course). See Pace Ix (9) for more than about fixing this. I am unsure if this exact .ini tweak limits it to two cores, since Windows ten's kernel seems to take over as compared to older versions of Windows, that is why I recommend seeing Step Ix.

Any mods you lot currently take that require a INI change, include those tweaks (besides Archive Invalidation).

IF Y'all Utilise MY .INI FILE AND FORGET TO Make ANY SPECIFIC CHANGES THAT SOME OF YOUR MODS REQUIRE, THAT Can Pb TO CRASHES. Brand SURE TO Bank check MODS YOU Utilize TO Encounter IF THE MOD Owner REQUIRES ANYTHING TO Exist TURNED ON OR OFF.

5. DO Non Use "Fallout Stutter Remover"

'Fallout 3 Stutter Remover' (FOSR) causes crashing now, every bit Windows ten released an update that breaks a characteristic in the mods fose plugin .ini file:

bHookCriticalSections = ane
bHookLightCriticalSections = 1

Utilize this mod instead:

F3TF - Fallout 3 Tick Fix
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/23542

"A stripped down version of FOSR that focuses on two features that are often overlooked still are the nearly crucial: The Tick Count bug and Fast Leave."

To draw, the tick count bug is a bug that creates micro stutter , incredibly noticeable micro stutter. It'southward more than likely to occur on improve hardware as well.

The second is Fast Leave. This is incredibly useful for mod authors and users alike, no more taking 15 seconds to exit the game. Instant closure.

I recommend this mod over FOSR, because it is lighter and has less cluttering settings.

IT IS NECESSARY TO REMOVE FOSR IF You USE THIS Mod, OTHERWISE THEY Volition Clash.

If y'all still desire to use FOSR, change these from i to 0:
bHookCriticalSections = 0
bHookLightCriticalSections = 0

half-dozen. Decompressing .BSA Files

.BSA files (Bethesda Software Archive files) are archive files that are used to hold resource files for Bethesda Softworks computer games, like sounds, maps, animations, textures, models, etc. Storing files in BSA archives makes organizing the information much easier than having them be in dozens or hundreds of separate folders. Some of these .BSA archives are compressed past Bethesda due to the size of them (dorsum in 2008, deejay space was limited) which saves space.

The downside to these beingness compressed, means that every time the game needs a texture, sound, etc., from one of these compressed .BSA's, information technology has to decompress it, and and so re-compress it in one case washed. Depending on your bulldoze speed and CPU, this tin can cause stuttering in-game when walking in an surface area that uses files from the compressed BSA.

The files I included in the download section make it so that these BSA's are uncompressed permanently, making it just a standard BSA archive. This improves load times, and reduces stuttering. It is mainly for those with SSD's (solid state drives), just it can be used for Hard drives as well to ameliorate 'Random Read' speeds of the game's files. (That is, if it is defragmented. See Pace XVI (16) for more info on Defragmentation.)

I've included the files to uncompress three BSA's that Fallout 3 has compressed by Bethesda, and the instructions. Annotation: I DIDN'T CREATE THIS TOOL. I do not own information technology nor do I claim to.

seven. Update Your Windows x

Even though Windows Update gives you updates, you need to brand sure you accept the latest build. Older Windows versions have irritating bugs that can cause stuttering. As of writing [Dec. 2021], my version is:

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Doesn't matter if you have Home or Pro, either is fine).
Version: 21H1
OS Build: 19043.1387

You can bank check this by going to your search bar (Cortana bar) and typing: 'Settings', click information technology and go to 'Update & Security', on the lower correct information technology should say "OS Build Info."

TO MAKE Certain YOU Have THE LATEST VERSION, DO THE FOLLOWING: Blazon 'Bank check for Updates' into the search bar, and cheque for updates from Windows Update until y'all are COMPLETELY up-to-engagement. When Windows isn't giving you anymore updates, it'due south condom to say you lot're up-to-date to the latest version.

Doing this removed my stuttering and CPU freezing problems (I had a very old version of Windows ten installed, which was 1803.) This too seems to have helped with Fallout iii crashing.

8. Update Your Graphics Drivers

Your graphics drivers can take effects on Fallout if they have bugs. Make sure they are updated.

To check your graphics make and model, go to your search bar, and type 'dxdiag'. If it asks to check for driver signature checking, click No. Go to the display tab and it will say your graphics model and maker.

NVIDIA: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

AMD: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-driver-autodetect

INTEL: https://world wide web.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

nine. Cpu Core Affinity

While the INI files I have included have specified to employ 2 Cores at nigh, the issue is that this may change zip due to how Windows 10 can override CPU Core limitations that you fix in an INI file. So I have found the solution to setting your CPU 'analogousness' (restricting the processor to run Fallout 3 on 2 cores) without having to get and change it each time in Task Managing director.

IF THIS TWEAK CAUSES LAG/STUTTERING, Cease USING Information technology. I take experienced this before! While the major benefit is that information technology stops the game's engine from bugging out and causing the game to deed weird and crash, the downside is that some people may have degraded performance. If it stutters too much or lags likewise much, practice not use this tweak. Information technology is safe to try it out, but it's upwardly to you to make up one's mind how badly it affects your game. The problem with Fallout 3 is that it is designed for 2 cores at most, yet Windows tries to assign the game's load across more 2 past how Windows is designed naturally. This causes the game to slowly, over fourth dimension, start bugging out (buildings not loading, enemies walking weird, sounds finish working, physics break), and so following this, the game crashes. I accept as well heard speculation that information technology is the architecture of modern processors compared to one's x years ago that causes it, but those are the master issues that cause this weird breakup of the game.

Go here: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/83864-processor-affinity-add-set-analogousness-context-card.html

On this page, scroll down to notice " To Add together Run with CPU-ane Affinity to Context Carte " and click download. This is going to add a right-click option to your context menu (the menu y'all get when you lot right click a program). This is a .reg file (registry file), so run it and install it.

Now whenever y'all run fose_loader, you tin can right click information technology and click "Run with CPU-1 Affinity."

This volition limit the game to 2 Cores every time without having to mess with Task Manager needlessly.
(Cadre 0 = 1st core, Core one = second core)

Annotation: If you withal wish to set up information technology by using Task Manager, right click Fallout3.exe and click 'Go to details'. And so right click the procedure, and click 'set analogousness'. Make SURE that Just CPU 0 & 1 are selected. These are the first 2 cores.

Practise not practise 0 & 2, or 1 & 3, etc. ONLY 0 & 1 as Fallout three recognizes the offset two. (The affinity changes you make to the current instance of an application or process are only temporary, and non set permanently), so you lot would have to do this every single fourth dimension you restart or turn your computer back on.

ten. Cleaning Mods

Cleaning mods is relatively simple. Why do it? Some mod authors have a lot of leftover junk that is left behind that they create on accident. Getting rid of this can help preclude conflicts with other mods and proceed your game tidy. It is rubber to clean a mod UNLESS the mod author SPECIFICALLY says to not practice so. Download the post-obit:

FO3Edit
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/637

Download 4.0.1 in the Onetime Files section. Why? iv.0.2 and above+ has removed the simple process to make clean mods, which they deem as 'obsolete' and have replaced it with something more clunky and complicated (past having to clean mods one-past-one rather than a simple click-and-go).

-1. Utilise the FO3Edit.exe (Not the 64 version) by placing information technology and the Edit Scripts folder in your games main binder. Run it and have all your mods selected. Once information technology is washed scanning, right click any mod and click 'Utilise Filter for Cleaning'. Look.

-two. One time done, right click a mod, now press CTRL+A, this should select everything. While withal holding CTRL, unselect Fallout3.esm, Fallout3.exe, and all the Official DLC .esm'due south besides.

(MAKE SURE THAT THE FALLOUT.EXE+ESM, AND ALL OFFICIAL DLC .ESM'S ARE NOT SELECTED, Every bit You lot DON'T Want TO CLEAN THEM. If y'all desire to clean them, encounter tweak

10. Cleaning the DLC.)
-3. Let go of CTRL, and right click any of the mods selected. Click "Undelete and Disable References" and it will do its thing. Once washed, right click again, and select "Remove 'Identical to Master' Records" and wait for it to consummate.

-iv. Once done, you can leave the plan. If it cleaned anything, information technology will request to backup the plugins upon exit, which is entirely up to you (I never do and then equally it gives me no bug).

11. Cleaning the DLC

The DLC have a few navmesh errors. A navigation mesh, or navmesh, is a data construction used in applications to aid AI/NPC'south in pathfinding (moving) through or around complicated spaces (like upwardly a flying of stairs).

At present I am unaware if these cause crashes, but it is safer than distressing, as I have experienced crashes from NPC'due south glitching out from getting stuck in desperately navmeshed expanse's. GamerPoets made a video on how to practice this, and I followed his guide. It's worth it. His video is concise, organized, and can exist skimmed through:
https://www.youtube.com/lookout man?v=69hyaD9Efvw

12. Mods causing Crashes

With this step it requires entirely your own fourth dimension, will, and work. Equally everyone has unlike mods, information technology is up to you to make sure none of them are causing crashes. Make sure your load order is optimized with either Vortex, NMM, or LOOT, and from now on, please examination the mods you install, earlier just massively installing a bunch at the aforementioned time. Testing is abrasive, I know, but information technology makes information technology easier to see if a mod is stable in your game. This means, for example an armor modernistic, checking if the armor is working in-game, etc. It volition save you a lot of problem.

If a mod is causing your game to crash, I reccommend to disable all your current plugin files if you think a mod is causing information technology, and to start a new game fresh. Save that new game, then exit the game and enable a few .esp's/.esm's, and reload the game into the new savegame. See if the crash persists. Once you lot start crashing, disable all the plugins that y'all final enabled, and then start enabling them one-by-one, and you'll find the mod that is causing conflict.

HOWEVER, if you disable all plugins and still crash on a new game, something else is causing your troubles. (ENB's are an instance, they don't play kindly on Windows 10 and I accept never gotten ane to work for me.)

xiii. Optimizing LOD

LOD (Level of Detail) is what is rendered across the 'uGridsToLoad' value in the INI files. (Default is 5 which I have set as 5 in my INI files, I never reccommend going to 6 or 7 as some people say.) So to optimize what we see off in the horizon in the game, nosotros will use the following modern:

FO3LODGen
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/21174

Download the top file (ignore the resources file). Place the Edit Scripts and .exe files to the main binder of your game (where the Fallout3.exe is located).

-ane. Right click the FO3LODGen.exe file, get to properties. Go to compatibility, and at the bottom, check 'Run as Administrator.' Employ and click Okay.

-ii. Run the Program, and information technology volition immediately open a window that is loading the game's resources and all mods y'all have enabled. Once it finally loads, a window volition pop-up with the following: "Select worldspace(s) to generate LOD for:" Select every unmarried checkbox available in that pane.

On the right-manus side, alter the Atlas size to 8192x8192. Pinch should be: Diffuse DXT3, Normal BC5. Specify clamper box unchecked, Trees LOD box unchecked (DON'T ENABLE THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THEIR TECHNICAL DETAILS PAGE. I don't recommend it and neither do they).

-3. Click generate and wait for information technology to finish. It will say 'LOD Generation: finished (you can shut this application now)

Run this program every time you install a new mod or new mods, merely for prophylactic measure.

14. Update FO3's Audio Files

Fallout iii uses the .ogg audio format for some files. They use the post-obit .DLL files to decode these sound files for the game to use:

libogg.dll
libvorbis.dll
libvorbisfile.dll

These are updated and managed by the Xiph.org Foundation who originally created them. Since Fallout 3 was terminal updated over a decade ago past Bethesda, these sound libraries haven't been updated for YEARS. The link provided includes these .DLL files (information technology is uploaded for New Vegas, just Fallout 3 uses the aforementioned verbal files) every bit shown below: Ogg Vorbis Libraries
https://world wide web.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/61265

Why are these needed? Since the game relies on these .dll files for audio decoding, the new updates should prepare sound bugs that take known to cause awkward sound glitches or even crashes. It also fixes memory leakage, audio related stuttering, and improves performance by reducing CPU strain to decode audio.

To install these files, simply drop them into your game'south master binder, and overwrite the three old files. No need to backup the erstwhile ones.

15. Issues Fixes

Included beneath is a modern by Mod Writer CivisRomanus, which they worked in-depth to ready a lot of bugs and glitches that the game still hasn't had fixed (fifty-fifty by Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch). It also fixes stuttering, improves operation, etc. I recommend installing & using all three .esp's.

Yep, this mod works perfectly juxtaposed with Unofficial Fallout iii Patch, so no need to worry. (They work together.)

IT REQUIRES ALL DLC.

CivisRomanus Unofficial Fallout 3 Fixes
https://world wide web.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/23590

16. Defragmentation

THIS IS ONLY FOR THOSE WITH HARD DRIVES. IF Y'all Accept AN SSD (SOLID STATE Drive), Practise NOT Practise THIS TO YOUR SSD!

Chances are, your game files are what is chosen 'fragmented.' I'm going to get out two very short video's (pick your poisonous substance) to explain what fragmentation and defragmentation of hard drive files means if you lot don't understand.

https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRIOUZuI2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSvOfu2PfXk

TL;DR: Fragmentated game files means the game has to expect for your hard drive to assemble all the file data if it is scattered beyond the difficult bulldoze'southward disk.

Hard bulldoze'due south have little arm's inside that read data from the deejay'southward. The less that arm has to move, the faster it volition read data. Fragmentated files means the arm has to motility around a lot to notice large data files to read them. This increases load times, and tin fifty-fifty cause pocket-sized freezing if the difficult drive is your calculator's 'achillies heel'. Fallout 3 already has major stuttering issues, then this can definitely help improve the result for those on a Hard Drive. (Call back, this is not needed for those with Fallout 3 installed on an SSD since in that location are no physical moving parts.)

Now that that'due south out of the way, for those that understand, employ the following disk defragger:

https://download.ccleaner.com/dfsetup222.exe

-i. Set it upwardly, and run it. Click Settings at the summit once open. Uncheck "Show SSD drives, Removeable Drives, & Ejected Drives." Relieve and exit the menu.

-two. Click to the correct of 'Clarify' at the bottom of the program, the arrow, and select 'Optimize'. This can take awhile depending on how slow your hard drive is. Optimize will sort your files AND defrag them at the same time.

Defragging will only put everything back together (like scattered pages being reassembled in a book), but Optimizing sorts it all similar a book example (organizing the books on a shelf). I recommend to run Optimize once a week. You can Also go to the meridian, click Activeness, Go to Avant-garde, and Check for Bulldoze Errors.

17. Cleaning Junk Files

Another matter that tin crusade lag, is when your computer has a lot of unused Junk Files that accumulate over time.

-1. Go to the lower-left of your screen, and click the Search push (Cortana bar, etc.) and blazon 'Deejay Cleanup'.

-2. It will request which drive to clean, click your principal drive (C: Drive) and then it will scan for a bit, so once it is washed, information technology will say on the lower-left of the program: "Clean up system files" with a little shield in forepart of it (administrator rights required shield). Click this and wait again.

-3. In one case done, click the 'More Options' tab. It will say 'System Restore and Shadow Copies', click Delete. This volition significantly increment your drive space, if you take lots of System Restore points that are uneeded.

-4. Go back to the Disk Cleanup tab, and bank check EVERY box except for 'Downloads'. Then click 'OK' at the bottom, and it will begin to cleanup junk files. Notation: THIS Will Not Touch YOUR PERSONAL FILES SUCH AS PHOTOS, VIDEOS, ETC. Only junk files that the system itself has created (such as enshroud that is old).

eighteen. Update your Visual C++ Redistributables

Your PC probably has older versions of Visual C++ Redistributables installed. These are C++ coding libraries distributed past Microsoft, so that programs or games can use the coding to run sure things.

Below I volition link a page where y'all can download all of the latest versions, just click the large blue 'download' button and cull the closest server.

They are as follows: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, & 2015-2019 (2015, 2017, & 2019 is combined).

Dissimilar Programs & Games require different years of these. SO INSTALL ALL OF THESE YEARS. A game adult in 2008 (similar Fallout 3) relies on the 2008 one, NOT the 2019 one. A game made in 2013, most likely requires the 2013 one, and so on. See what I hateful? So install all of them.

IF You Take A 32-BIT OPERATING SYSTEM, Simply INSTALL THE X86 VERSIONS.
IF Yous HAVE A 64-Scrap OPERATING SYSTEM, INSTALL BOTH THE X86 & X64 VERSIONS.

To check whether you lot have a 32-bit or 64-chip Operating System, type 'This PC' into the Search bar (Cortana bar).
Correct-click it, and click Properties.

If information technology says '32-bit Operating System, x64-based Processor' you lot yet accept a 32-fleck Operating System, so only install the x86 versions.
If information technology says '64-chip Operating Organisation, x64-based Processor' install both x86 and x64 versions for each year.

DOWNLOAD Folio: Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes All-in-1

-1. Here's what I want you lot to do: Go to your search bar (Cortana bar) and type 'Control Console', and click it. So click 'Uninstall a program' in the lower-left under 'Programs'.

-2. Roll downward your list of programs, and uninstall ALL your programs named 'Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable'. Once none are left, start installing the latest ones I take provided for you lot, one-past-one OR by running the 'install_all.bat' file to exercise it automatically.

-3. Once they are all installed, you should have TWO of each installed, an x86, and an x64 version. (Unless you accept a 32-bit Operating System, which you merely want x86 versions for each year installed.)

-four. Restart your calculator.

Information technology should wait like this when you're done (versions may not be the aforementioned since this image is outdated, what matters is the names):

Notation: Even though these are all of different years, they are all yet needed for practiced reason. Non all of these are used past Fallout iii (only 2005 & 2008), but it is nice to take them all updated for your other games and programs that need and use them. The latest versions of these have updated C++ code which tin prepare coding bug for the game.
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xix. Optimizing your Ability Settings

There are a few power settings yous demand to suit for your computer to run at optimal speed.

-1. Go to your search bar, type "Power settings" and select "Power & Sleep settings". On the right side, select "Additional power settings", and and so select loftier performance. This makes information technology so your processor will run at its best speed all the fourth dimension, rather than slowing itself downwardly and causing lag.

-2. These next few steps are for NVIDIA Graphics Carte users only , I want you to get to your icon tray (the little pointer ^ pointing upwards in the lower right of your taskbar, and run across if yous accept NVIDIA Settings. Open up it if you do. (If y'all take a GT/GTX/RTX Graphics Card, you lot should have this program. Information technology comes with your graphics updates.)

-4. On the Left console, select 'Adjust image settings with preview', and and then make sure 'Employ the advanced 3D image settings' is checked. Click Apply on the lower right, and exit once it applies.

-three. Go to "Manage 3D Settings" on the left panel, and curl down a bit to notice 'Ability management mode'. Put it as Prefer Maximum Performance.

These settings are essential for your CPU & GPU to run at their optimal speeds without having slowdowns.

xx. Repairing Windows ten Errors

This tweak is to repair any corrupted Windows 10 system files which tin limit or hinder Fallout three due to a functioning issue or a problems issue.

-1. Go to your search bar (cortana bar), type 'CMD' and correct-click it, run as Administrator.

-2. Blazon this exactly: 'dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth' and wait for it to complete.

-3. Subsequently that completes, type this exactly: 'dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth' and wait for information technology to complete.

-four. Afterward that completes, blazon this exactly: 'dism /online /cleanup-epitome /restorehealth' and expect for information technology to complete.

-5. Finally after those 3 are done, type this exactly: 'sfc /scannow' and wait for it to complete. Once done, errors should accept been fixed. Restart your PC.

That'southward all you need to exercise.

I will be adding more things if I think of them or people suggest things to add, and then keep an center on this page for awhile past clicking 'Track' at the tiptop of the page. Please ask any questions in the comments. - DapperSpy