I don’t know if it will be useful but I am running Windows 7 64 bit. And also the game was centered to run around Windows Vista therefore possible the game had many incompatibilities with the latest Windows 10. Probably it will work for other games too. 1: Fallout 3 is not compatible with Windows 10 Well this is a common reason the Fallout 3 was released in 2008 and Windows 10 in 2015. I did have FPS drops near Germantown, and a few other places, but whatever, that was light weight. This fixed my xlive.dll is missing in Fallout 3 steam version. Fallout 3 Crashing every few Minutes, Windows 10 Steam GOTY - posted in Fallout 3 Technical Support: A few months ago, I was able to play FO3 perfectly fine, with mods without constant crashing, or stuttering. So, to be able to start fallout 3 on steam without xlive.dll is missing error all you need to do is just to download and install the file from here. On some forum I found that xlive.dll might be removed by antivirus or simply damaged by other program in my system and that’s why I have xlive.dll is missing problem. Since, the reinstallation of the fallout 3 on steam didn’t fix the xlive.dll is missing error obviously this error is not related with game but with operating system. After few hours of searches I finally found the solution and it worked for me. Well, I am not giving up quickly so I went further and started to search on the Internet how can I fix fallout 3 xlive.dll is missing error on steam.

Unfortunately for me to run game on windows 10 i had to download file d3d9.dll from net, otherwise game wont start (CTD when tryin to start game).

I wanted to start my adventure with ENB so i downloaded one preset for Fallout 3 GOTY steam. I verified cache of the game and files, but the xlive.dll is missing from your computer error still remained. Fallout 3 start-up crash because of d3d9.dll. I never had errors in games in steam library. When I tried to launch fallout 3 game on steam I got xlive.dll is missing error. Bought the game on steam and installed it. Just before the release of Fallout 4 New Vegas I’ve decided to play Fallout 3 to get into the story.

Fallout 3 wont launch windows 10