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[MasterGrazzt]

i should try reading before i post

[Lucullus]

Try this site out for any patch that might make things work for you:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/
I found that I get a lot of fanmade patches from there that makes the game run on XP any version

[Havell]

Yeah, I have trouble running Fallout under SP2, I solved the problem by using DOSBox to run it. It runs at a reasonable speed on my 2.5 Ghz processer (no slow-down in the game itself, though modest loading gaps).

[Lucullus]

Well I just installed Fallout2 because I wanted to play that as well and I found that I can play it XP SP2, but not using any of the fanmade patches. So with Fallout 1 you can do the same but keep screen res to about 800x600 and 16bit graphics. Compatibility on Windows 95 and don't use fanmade patches. Stick to the official updates.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Personally, I've been pretty annoyed with this kind of things. So I went and installed a vintage 2.1 GB HDD into my Sempron 2500+ -based computer. Works like a charm.

[Lucullus]

Too bad companies don't see that their old games still have playability if they just take the effort to port it over to new OS...

[The Fifth Horseman]

It's not companies, it's Microsoft who have screwed over the backwards compatibility of their OS.

[Lucullus]

True... but then in any case both M$ and the game companies should work together about this

[troop18546]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Petter1979 @ Jan 24 2006, 01:41 AM) [snapback]199975[/snapback]</div>

Only think i had to do to install the game is change the compatibly on the file "setup.exe" on the cd to "Windows 95"
Then i installed the game, and it works flawslessly.
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This was the first thing I had to resort whe ntrying to play Fallout1.
The odd thing is that Fallout CANNOT be installed in any way without doing this on XP SP2.
Atleast for me.

[JJXB]

fallout works fine for me and i have SP2. and as for fallout 2 compatability, i use a version of the unofficial 1.5 patch and it works fine as well