TTW Installer cannot find Fallout 3

Post by **Kadorhal** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:18 am

Running on Windows 7 with 3GB RAM and an AMD Anthlon 64 X2 dual-core, 5.2GHz combined. Both games were bought over Steam, Fallout 3 GOTY and original New Vegas.

My issue is that when I run the installer, it somehow completely fails to find Fallout 3, even after I point it in the right direction. I'll start the installer and, well, let me quote the install log:

[collapse collapsed title="how can you not find it i told you where it is"][12/7/2014 7:34:03 PM]   Looking for Fallout3.exe

[12/7/2014 7:34:03 PM]       Fallout 3 not found, prompting user.

[12/7/2014 7:34:17 PM]   User selected: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 3 goty

[12/7/2014 7:34:17 PM]   Looking for FalloutNV.exe

[12/7/2014 7:34:17 PM]       Found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:17 PM]   Looking for Tale of Two Wastelands

[12/7/2014 7:34:17 PM]       Default path found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Checking for required files...

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout3.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Anchorage.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   ThePitt.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   BrokenSteel.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   PointLookout.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Zeta.esm could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - Meshes.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - Misc.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - Textures.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - MenuVoices.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - Sound.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Fallout - Voices.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Anchorage - Main.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Anchorage - Sounds.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   ThePitt - Main.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   ThePitt - Sounds.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   BrokenSteel - Main.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   BrokenSteel - Sounds.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   PointLookout - Main.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   PointLookout - Sounds.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Zeta - Main.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Zeta - Sounds.bsa could not be found.

[12/7/2014 7:34:25 PM]   Missing files detected. Aborting install.[/collapse]

All I can think that's causing the problem is that the installer thinks the files should be somewhere else - say, the folder just being named Fallout 3 and not Fallout 3 goty - except the installer worked just fine with the exact same files a week ago. Renaming it to just "Fallout 3" and double-checking that nothing was set to read-only did nothing.

The other possible cause I see is I uninstalled the non-GOTY version of the game sometime after that first attempt to install the mod, since it's a redundant use of hard drive space now, but that doesn't make sense either given that that's not where the installer was looking the first time anyway.

Post by **Kadorhal** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:26 am

are you kidding me

literally one minute after i posted this it decides it can suddenly find the files properly

apparently "NO these files are NOT READ-ONLY" only counts as long as the properties window is up

Well, anyway, as I mentioned I tried installing the mod once before, and that time the main .fomod apparently missed a .bsa or three, so I guess it saves me the effort of having to make this thread anyway when something else goes wrong later. I'll keep you posted.

EDIT: What do you know, it actually worked this time. Apologies for wasting your time, then.

Post by **BorisTSLH** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 2:55 am

I am having this issue and somehow it's not registering anything. All it isn't registering is the .esm and .bsa files

Post by **Kadorhal** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 7:20 pm

What do you know, reinstalled the latest version on a new computer and had the same problem again, this very thread was the first result Google gave me.

Anyway, apologies for bumping a nearly two-year-old thread, but on the chance that more people keep having this problem, I think I figured out what exactly went on. The issue seems to be that I needed to change the read-only setting for the Fallout 3 folder, then run or reset the TTW installer (running as administrator, of course) so it actually acknowledged the change.

Post by **Bizz** » Sat Jan 18, 2020 7:49 am

Made an account while installing just to say thank you. Haven't gotten that one before so I was pretty confused.