Technical problems FAQ

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:43 pm

If anyone has any problems installing the game or getting it to run, check this FAQ out first, it might solve your problems.

If you have any problems, you can disscuss them here, I'll later delete those posts and add them to the faq.

Fallout and XP
Problem: Installing Fallout on XP.

Solution: This thread.

Problem: Game works up until the videos at the beginning start playing, the screen turns green and freezes.

Solution: turn on hardware acceleration for monitor.

Problem: Bad quality of colors.

Solution: Check this thread out.

Fallout and Windows 2k
Problem: How do I install?

Solution: Clicky

Ok... It's kinda poor now, but it will grow.

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:51 am

Awww.... I cant run Fallout on Win 2000!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:46 am

other solution for win2k (and any older game besides fallout)

--> NOTE: the command to enable slayerui.dll was written incorrectly, so if you tried this before without any luck, try it again (copy/paste) because I messed up the first time. Sorry for the inconveniance.

Step #1: Enable Compatibility-Mode support for Win2K (which is disabled by default).
Log on as Administrator or equivalent
Click on Start
Click on Run
Type "regsvr 32%systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll" (without the quotes)
Click Ok
There should be a Dialog Prompt saying that slayerui.dll has been successfully enabled.

Step #2: make a shortcut to setup.exe from the fallout CD
Right Click on that shortcut
Click on Properties
You should see a Compatibility tab
Check Run in compatibility mode box
Under that checkbox, choose Windows 98 Compatibility (or 95)
Click on Apply
Click on Ok.

Step #3: now, run that setup.exe shortcut you made.
voila! you can instal fallout like normal on your win2k machine, no manual install for you!
but you must make a shortcut to falloutw.exe and run that in win98 compatibility mode, if you use the actual falloutw.exe, it will not work.

(i am pretty sure this wont mess up your machine, but dont blame me if it does!)

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 1:45 am

Has anyone else tried the Win2000 thing listed above?

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:12 am

hey i managed to install the friggin thing by manually double clickin on the setup icon,autorun didnt work

i played and everything worked fine yesterday,but today i cant start fallout
anymore,i get a message saying there isnt enough space on my hard drive 20 MB is needed

i have 80 gig free, what the fuck?

help me please!

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:55 am

Some hard drives will fuck up the installation so you have to copy the files manually.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:34 am

I tried moving it from this computer to my dad's computer and it gave me the same error, with a 40 gig hard drive.

What I did was just copy the game to CD then move them to his computer. What's the solution to that bastard?

Oh yeah, both computers are running XP Pro.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:05 pm

I don't have XP, so the only thing I can think of is to check, and if you aren't already, try using the Compatibility Mode option.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:37 pm

Fallout 2 installs & runs just fine on Win2000... Delete this if it's of no use.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:54 pm

I tried moving it from this computer to my dad's computer and it gave me the same error, with a 40 gig hard drive.

What I did was just copy the game to CD then move them to his computer. What's the solution to that bastard?

Oh yeah, both computers are running XP Pro.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:00 am

Nope, didn't work, how big is Fallout supposed to be anyway? I think I might be missing a file or something.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:12 am

About 550 megs i think.

I'm using XP, and have so far had no trouble with FO2. Maybe fallout2.cfg is screwed, don't know if that has any effect on anything.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:47 am

I knew something must be wrong, because I look at the Fallout folder and it says 447MB. See I no longer have the Fallout CD, I've bought the fucking game twice already. I've got a zipped file of it, but it's like 920MB (yes, I downloaded this fucking thing, even on cable it was like watching paint dry, but not as fun since there were no mind numbing fumes to inhale) As near as I can tell there are two of everything. Looks a little something like this, There's a Fallout folder that weighs in at 544MB, in the Fallout folder there are the Critter file and Master file, along with all the other files you will find normally, the Falloutw file does not work in here, then inside this folder there is another one called Fallout, in here it has everything that the first one had, but it's only 447MB, and works. I don't know how I got it to work, and I'm running out of CD-R's. I think I'll try moving the 544MB folder onto the other computer.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:24 am

If you ever get the 20mb error, just make a shortcut to falloutw.exe and run it in win98 compatibility... it should work without needing to reinstall.
Changing the "free space" value in the fallout.cfg to Zero is a good idea too.

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:42 pm

Speaking of which. In XP the end movies of both games have problems, they go fast-forward and barely allow to see the content. It also messes audio on that very location, by just playing half of one audio file, then ignoring it.

Is there some workaround this?

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:25 pm

Try searching around both here and @ NMA. I think it had a pretty simple solution.

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:19 pm

I thought that the video in XP problem had no solution... along with walking too fast on the worldmap (I guess you could get a CPU killer for that though).

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:30 am

The 'walking too fast' is no problem, right?
You just move fast, it's not like it's a big loss or anything to move slowly?

And the video problem had an answer IIRC. But having not been introduced to XP-gaming, I remember nothing about the details.

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:17 am

When you go insanely fast in the world map you almost never get any random encounters. If you walk real slow you get TONS (I know this one from experience... it took a little under an hour to get from the den to Gecko until I got the car)

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:14 am

I've got a problem. Today I installed FO1 for the first time in about 2 years on WinXP. It installed fine, and it runs fine except for one problem: The screen goes black every few seconds. I move the PC around, and the screen comes back, but then it goes black again. The game's not crashing...The screen just goes black, and only refreshes when I move my mouse or the PC.

I've got it running in compatibility mode for Win95..Tried Win98..Even Tried Win2k. Same problem.

Ideas?

System:

P4 1.5Ghz
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600XT w/Omega Drivers
SB Live! 5.1
WinXP Pro SP1