use mods. modders are the only ones who keep your old games alive and fix the issues devs and publishers aren't able or simply don't want to fix.

Look up what DOA means.

That's why GOG is the better storefront for old games, but the are finicky, make it habit that you check for fan patches for specific game.

I played Fallout 3 not all that long ago and people are defo playing DayZ today.

TLDR: Valve isn't responsible for your rig's ability to play ganez.

That's what happens when you buy a game then play it for the first time years later.

OP, DOA stands for Dead On Arrival. That's really not what's going on here.

Older games need tinkering in order to work on new systems. Just verifying the game files will do nothing to help with compatibility issues. You need to look for various patches, running them in compatibility mode etc. to get them to work. Sometimes you need to tweak some hardware settings too depending on the game.

PCs are not consoles. Games on PC will not work out of the box once enough time has gone by for the originally supported hardware to be obsolete. No, you will not be refunded for this.

Use a search engine and sites like PC gaming wiki to identify issues and potential fixes.

"my 17 year old game doesn't work on my hardware and Operating System that didn't even exist back when it was released!"
Yeah, that's normal. Welcome to PC gaming, here we tinker to fix that.

Its time to take Ol' Yeller out back and retire him. Get a new puppy to play with.

Since i played through Fallout 3 just last year on Windows 11 i kinda doubt the statement.
Its true that you have to tinker with some ini settings or use stability mods but Fallout 3 is prone to crashing/not running on any OS from Windows 7 onward.
But its maybe 5 minutes of work to get it to run on modern OS/systems.
Thats just PC gaming. If you cant deal with that, get a console.

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

PCs are not consoles. Games on PC will not work out of the box once enough time has gone by for the originally supported hardware to be obsolete. No, you will not be refunded for this.


Use a search engine and sites like PC gaming wiki to identify issues and potential fixes.

That’s only half the truth. Unlike consoles, PCs aren’t locked to one hardware generation. Sure, it depends on the game some titles age badly and need a lot of tweaking but with the right tools you can still run classics today. Doom from 1993? Works perfectly if you know how. As long as we don’t fundamentally change our underlying architecture, which has been mostly x86 since the 1970s, compatibility remains possible.

why do you think dos games or even older ones are still possible to run (with tools ) on Windows 11 ?

I was fortunate i guess. Going from that 20 year old PC on Win 7 to now on a new one on 11, all my games work.

And kept my Mods

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I was fortunate i guess. Going from that 20 year old PC on Win 7 to now on a new one on 11, all my games work.

And kept my Mods

I used a 1.44 MB diskette drive to read my old disks from 1991 on Windows 11 recently and even played a game from it just for fun... PC Masterrace ftw....🤣❤️Try doing that on a console. Isn’t that easy?hm ? 😎

For Fallout 3 you have to make it ignore your iGPU. There are guides for it in the guide section.

Originally posted by Macro:

Sure, it depends on the game some titles age badly and need a lot of tweaking but with the right tools you can still run classics today.

So like I said. Games on PC will not work out of the box once enough time has gone by for the originally supported hardware to be obsolete.