


To get FO3 to work, I was able to use the Intel HD Graphics Bypass package to trick FO3 into thinking it's running on an Nvidia chipset. Turns out the issue was related to my MacBook's Intel graphics chipset, an Intel Iris Graphics 5100. The main menu would start, but the game would crash after I clicked "play", just before the intro movie.

For more on Boston and Fallout 4, see this comparison of landmarks in the game and in real life.I had trouble getting Steam's version of Fallout 3 to work on my MacBook Pro in Windows. We expect to learn a lot more about Fallout 4 at E3 next week. If anything, the homework they've done show a Bethesda Softworks team doing it as well as they plotted out the setting for the next entry in this series. They figured out both, too, with plenty of justification. They even include a shot of a trail in that park that looks, well, pretty much like the one everyone was running in the trailer.Īll that's left is the "garage," the roadside station housing the powered armor from this teaser image, and the site of the nuclear blast itself. So where is Vault 111, to which everyone is running? That, astonishingly, is determined to be Whitney Hill Park in Watertown, west of the city. So, that would be a good guess even with nothing to back it up, but here they show how they fixed the tower's location, using its relative position next to other recognizable, real-world landmarks. They've pinpointed that to stand on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has been referred to as "The Institute" in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. I guess I should offer a spoiler alert here? For what exactly, I'm not sure - either the video, the image series, or the game itself - but go no further if you don't yet want to know where the shit goes down - or might - in Fallout 4.įor starters, the team notes that the "Battery Tower" appears in every shot of post-apocalyptic Boston in the trailer. The team, nine Fallout fans in all, show their work in that video (above) and in this series of images on Imgur. And you know what? It looks pretty good to me. Some insanely obsessive persons with a gift for orienteering and triangulation picked apart the three-minute Fallout 4 trailer that dropped Wednesday to determine the location of important fictitious landmarks and happenings within this game, which doesn't even have a release date.
