I just bought the dual jewel case for Fallout 1&2 and the graphics are glitching. It will turn black and clear up where ever the mouse goes. Then it will go all black again. I'm not sure if it's the DirectX new new version, but I thought they made each version continually backwards compatible? Has anyone had this problem trying to play the game again?

BTW, I am running Windows XP. I sure hope that this is not the problem

Well, anyone who can help would be much appreciated. I want to replay these 2 again before part 3 comes out again

Try setting the compatibility of the executable to win95 or win98

If it won't work, I'd recommend (if there are no other, easier ways) to download Sfall - an engine tweak for Fallout where you can enable 16bit mode, opengl or directx mode.
PS. I think there are other ways to deal with the problem

Thank you for the info. With your help I was able to figure out where/what to type in on my searches. I downloaded the sFall Engine Tweak program. I had to find the 1.2 Fallout patch also. Together I was able to go into the .ini file and change a few settings (read up on the readme.txt!) I runs nicely now!

So anyone who has this problem, this may be the only way to fix it Good luck "anyone".

I've run into the same thing when playing FO 1 and 2 on modern machines. Without any modding or tweaking a simple fix for this is to just bring up a menu screen (ie character sheet or preferences menu) and it'll refresh the screen, always worked for me.

You can double-tap F1 to bring up and close the in-game help screen. Doing that fixed everything for me.

i cant get my setup.exe file to work it keeps erroring and not responding why is this? it was running earlier reformatted the comp now it wont even get to the set up or even the installation which is weird i have two copies neither will work is it because i ghosted my windows xp?

and i tried installing fo 1 and it wont even work help me please i cant survive int his wasteland without fo2 or even 1

Try these instructions:

For the instructions below, I will assume that you have created a folder called FALLOUT on your C: drive and that the drive the Fallout CD is in is your D: drive. Insert your actual drive letters where appropriate.

1. Copy d:\program\win\falloutw.___ to c:\fallout\falloutw.exe.

2. Create a text file in c:\fallout called fallout.cfg and add the following line to it:
[system]

3. You now have 4 options corresponding to the 4 install sizes:
3a. Do not copy anything else. This is the same as the smallest install, but is also the slowest way to play the game. If you do this, make sure you follow the steps in 3b, 3c & 3d below for editing the config file.

3b. Copy d:\master.dat to c:\fallout\master.dat. This file is 318 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following on the next line in c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
master_dat=d:\master.dat

3c. Copy d:\critter.dat to c:\fallout\critter.dat. This file is 150 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following on the next line in c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
critter_dat=d:\critter.dat

3d. Copy the entire d:\data folder to c:\fallout\data. This is 73 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following two lines to c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
[sound]
music_path2=d:\data\sound\music

4. Add the following line to your [system] block:
free_space=0

5. Make sure you close and save your changes to the c:\fallout\fallout.cfg file.

For example, if you chose to not copy any of the data files over, you should have a fallout.cfg file that looks like this:

[system]
master_dat=d:\master.dat
critter_dat=d:\critter.dat
free_space=0
[sound]
music_path2=d:\data\sound\music

That should be it! Just run c:\fallout\falloutw.exe to play the game.

Hi

I've been able to install the application normally but now I'm not able to launch it.
The screen is resized for a while and then gets back to normal.

I can't use Sfall as I have a french version of the game.
Here is my config file

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[sound]
music_path1=H:\JEUX\Fallout2\data\sound\music\
music_path2=F:\data\sound\music\

[system]
cdlock=F:\cdlock.dat
critter_dat=H:\JEUX\Fallout2\critter.dat
critter_patches=H:\JEUX\Fallout2\data
master_dat=H:\JEUX\Fallout2\master.dat
master_patches=H:\JEUX\Fallout2\data
art_cache_size=1048
language=french
free_space=0

[preferences]
subtitles=1

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I've added the free_space line manually but that hasn't changed anything.

Thanks for your help

first, i use microsoft vista home premium. my problem is that when i play fallout tactics, there are objects that dont want to display (power nodes from the later missions, the gas tanks from freeport mission, and a few other objects that are needed to be interacted with for interaction.) especially the power nodes. there is a mission where i need to blow up 5 or 6 power nodes at the same time and i cant even see them to find them so i can blow thwm sky high! anyone have any solutions?