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    7811 & Fallout 3

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ProfessorSpankIt, Jan 20, 2009.

  1. ProfessorSpankIt

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    Eh, probably should post this in the gaming section, but whatever.


    Anyhoo, bought the game today and it won't install (some sort of setup.exe error coming from the windows installer). Everything is up to date and I thought it might be a bad disc, but checked out the Fallout 3 forum over on GameFAQs and found out that 2 other people with the same notebook also had this issue.

    Any ideas what the issue could be? I believe Fallout 3 fully supports Vista 64-Bit, and this is the first game I've had in recent years that simply wouldn't install.
     
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    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    really? thats messed up. what was the error exactly?

    re-install your video drivers just to be safe I think.
     
    narsnail, Jan 20, 2009
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    Ah well ****, as soon as I make the thread, I find the answer lol. it.


    Oh well....anyways, I simply deleted the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\InstallShield\ Professional folder and it the installation finally got going.
     
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  4. AW794

    AW794 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hmm i have the 7805u and it installed / plays fine on mine.
     
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    AW794 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok awesome. Yea its a fun and addicting game. Have fun!
     
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    hah well at least it was that simple
     
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    Azamatka Notebook Guru

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    Not F3, but still.

    Love the performance of my 7801U. I've been playing Stalker 1440-900 maximum quality for 3 days now :) No lags, no glitches, everything's perfectly fine.

    As for Fallout 3 - it tends to have lots of glitches through the gameplay... I even could not get to the menu several times. But still. It's The Game. At least, one from The List.
     
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  8. ProfessorSpankIt

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    Yeah, getting the game to install is the first issue. I'll have to install the update next, and then pray that the few mods I'll apply will work flawlessly.

    I hear this game crashes literally every hour, on the hour.
     
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    I installed it from Steam on my 7811 with no problems... odd you'd had a problem with it at all.... It also uninstalls fine... as after 110 play hours worth of saves it took up about 6GB's on my HD.
     
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