Installed FO3 GOTY Edition but I've rec'd no PIP message after 2 hours

I've been playing FO3 for months - I kept my Saved Games and installed GOTY Edition to get all the Expansion Packs. I've been playing GOTY for over2 hours and I haven't received a single PIP message for any of the new content. or Expansion Packs. The game is playing fine, no problems whatsoever, except there is no new PIP messages coming up. I'm a senior who enjoys a little PCgame play on the weekends and I just want to figure out why the new content is not showing up. I got 2 discs in my package and the 2nd one seems useless, it froze my system and I just took it out.

I wrote Bethesda and got a message backthat seems like a Foreign Languageto me, I've never used Games for Windows Live to play FO3:

Please check the following if the content does not appear to be working in the PC version of Fallout 3:
1. Make sure you are logged into Games For Windows Live using the same gamertag used when you purchased the DLC.
2. Fallout 3 must be installed on the same drive (C:) as the Games For Windows Live client and content. If this is not the case, you may get the "loading content" message, but it will not activate or show up in the game.
3. If you experienced any errors during the download or installation of the DLC, please try redownloading the DLC under your gamertag.
4. Make sure you are not using any 3rd party mods or have made alterations to the game using the G.E.C.K editor. Some mods and changes may prevent the content from working properly.
Note that if you travel to the game area where the new content resides, and see exclamation marks, missing textures, etc, this is an indication the content did not load successfully.

Appreciate any help that can be offered.

Thanks

Dee

I DLC'd the online content separately and found that it was quite the pain. I never did get it to work properly with my game saves. After some fishing around on Google I found out how to load the separate packs as data packs. I'm not sure if that's what you want to do.

On other podcasts, I've heard that you get bombarded with pip msgs as soon as you leave the shelter. You might want to start a new game and see if that happens.

If you don't have Games For Windows Live - the GOTY edition will NOT work.

Just install it and create an account.

Thanks everyone - first I'll try signing up Games for Windows Live and if that doesn't work I'll start a new game. Dee

Update - thank you everyone for your help. My GOTY Expansions are now up and running and I thought I would post in case it could helpother *beginners* :

1- you don't need to be a member of Games for Windows to play the GOTY edition

2- as mentioned the 2nd DVD takes FOREVER to load and it contains the Expansion packs. My DVD player never did recognize the AutoStart feature and I had to open the DVD in order to start the Application and it took 10 minutes before it started to install the files.

3- played the game and still had no Expansion pack Pip messages. Received another e-mail from Bethesda and they suggested going to the Launcher and then DATA files and making sure that the Expansions were listed and checked. TaDa.....they weren't checked. I checked them all and the GOTY is working great.

Dee

Sorry about that - my game wouldn't work until I installed GFWL.

I can't believe I forgot about the data files *DOH*

Anyway - glad you got it going - that's a lot of content you added thar.

Enjoy.