Like the title says, I bought Fallout 3 couple days ago for £5 (good deal yes?). Anyway, I thought I would have no problems running it on my new laptop, here are the specs:



It isn't cutting edge but should be able to play it fine (I can play NFSU2, Orcs Must Die!, CoD2, LFD2, Sims 2 and Minecraft perfectly fine. So why is this game not running Is there a workaround?

 

In addition to updating graphics drivers (which you should do before playing any new game), it would help if you could tell us what graphics you have. You've only shown us your CPU, not any of your other "specs".
EDIT: My guess, you've got Intel HD 3000 graphics. If you've got something like nVidia Optimus (with, say, GT 420 or 520), then it's most likely drivers. If you've only got the Intel graphics, then you may need to look at the Fallout 3 forums to see if they've got a workaround patch for it.
EDIT2: I did a quick search, and I'll just throw in the quote to help you until you tell us what graphics you have.

 

Yeah you guessed right originality, I have only a HD 3000. I have tried the .dll workaround (well one I found via youtube) it allowed the game to run but will randomly freeze Should I give up and take the game back or is there any other way?

 

Yeah but as I have stated I can play a lot of new games (Left for Dead 2, Orcs Must Die!) on average setting (I didn't have to alter the settings for them to run smoothly) So why is this an exception?

 

any card can run a game perse but that doesn't mean it can run it well even on the lowest setting. The OP said he can run L4D 2 and Orcs must die on medium settings, both aren't that graphically intensive and one is a source game, if you can't run a source game on high then you can't run most modern games like fallout 3 with a reliable framerate. here's a link to it's specs http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Intel-HD-Graphics-3000-graphics-solution.43710.0.html, while it looks promising it has horrible frame rate with most games on high, and decent framerate on low at the lowest resolution. It can improve with better drivers but that can be hit or miss.
Also if you actually read my post carefully you would know that I used to game with a INTEGRATED GRAPHICS CARD. I was lucky just to be able to run CS:S and TF2 was barely playable on the lowest settings. His card is better so it should run most games ok on the lowest possible settings. I tried to make my post as nice as possible with what I had to say but I guess it was too negative for you to take.

 

I used to game on an IGP.

Of course, Quake 2 was about the most graphically-demanding thing I did... while many games did run in a technical sense, they were unplayable.

That's not a gaming computer.

 

I had this problem on a Core i7, this is what fixed it:


Open up the fallout.ini file in: My Documents\My Games\Fallout3\

Find the line:

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to:

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add another line after it and insert:

iNumHWThreads=2