Vault-Tec Annoyance Disabler (GFWL Disabler and Fixer)

If you want the TL;DR: Launch the program, put in your Fallout 3 directory, pick an option, and press the Patch button.

A UI that will help you either disable Games for Windows Live, or fix it for achievement support.

There are many things it will do, and 2 things it can do.

As of Version 1. 1, the CMD window will no longer show up, as it now loads the required files itself.

As you can see, it looks like a Windows Forms app. It is.

Until you insert a directory that contains the Fallout3.exe executable, the options are grayed out.

Thankfully, there's a way to open a dialog, and it's not the one where you have to go through a tree of folders and makes you want to vomit.

Option 1: Disable GFWL

The program will (in order):

Copy Fallout_default.dll to Fallout.dll in your Documents folder it's not there already

Open the GFWL Disabler program from https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/1086

Option 2: Fix GFWL

The program will (in order):

Put the GFWL Client and Xlive Redistributable from https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24699 into the game's "temporary" folder (btw, it just made one)

Put the Registry tweak from https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24703 into the game's "temporary" folder

It will install the GFWL Client and Xlive Redistributable

It will apply the Registry tweak

If the graphics options haven't been set, it will open the Launcher to do so

It will change the graphics options to have your actual screen width and height (I did this for my own sake, I was using a VM for testing, but it will probably help someone)

It will put the product key the game will ask you in your clipboard, and tell you to press Ctrl+V when it asks you

It will open the game, and ask the user to go to the screen where you put in a product key

Once entered, it will update LIVE

It will open the game again

* It will ask the user to sign in with Microsoft again, and then exit itself