Can't load FO2 in XP

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mrcon

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I've been trying for several hours to get FO2 to run under XP.

Here's the problem: When I try to start the game, my screen turns black and I hear my monitor click like it always does when it changes resolutions. Then, it clicks again and drops me to desktop. Occasionally, usually after I mess with something, when I try to start the game I will get the black and white "please stand by" message for about half a second, and then I just get kicked to desktop.

I've browsed this entire fourm and found other people who had this same problem, and tried those solutions. So far I have tried:

Manual install (even though it installs fine on its own) and multiple reinstalls
Opening msconfig and turning off all startup processes and non-microsoft services.
Compatibility mode (all different options)
Disabling my graphics card
Turning off DirectDraw and Direct3D acceleration
Setting my desktop to 800x600 and 16 bit color
Forcing falloutw.exe to open in 256 color 800x600 mode.
Doing what this guy said.

I am running on an athlon 2200+ with a geforce 5900FX and a gig of ram. Fallout 1 works fine except I occasionally get that bug where your screen turns black and you have to move your mouse around or open/close pipboy to get rid of the black spots. Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Did you upgrade your graphic card drivers ?

Or run dxdiag.exe and set the audio to lower than full..
 
Odin said:
Did you upgrade your graphic card drivers ?

Or run dxdiag.exe and set the audio to lower than full..
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Just installed the most recent nvidia drivers and they had no effect.

Tried the sound thing earlier but forgot to list it.

Should I try these in combination with other methods?
 
No it won`t. Turn everything that you`ve turned off on, cut sound acceleration through dxdiag and, then reinstall the game and give it win98 compatibility. Then report to us what happened.
 
Briosafreak said:
No it won`t. Turn everything that you`ve turned off on, cut sound acceleration through dxdiag and, then reinstall the game and give it win98 compatibility. Then report to us what happened.
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Same thing.
 
i got xp home too, works fine on it (ATI drivers though), but i seem to remember it worked fine with my old Ti4600 too
 
alvinlovesu said:
try older versions of nvdia's driver?
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I had no ideas which drivers to try, so I went to guru3d and grabbed something old. Det 27.23's, released in January of 02 (i.e. pretty old). Didn't work. If you know of a set of drivers that might make a difference, I'll try that though.
 
your gpu is dx9, mine was dx8 and therefor handle things differently

but i kinda doubt this would be the problem
 
I have been having the same problem with windows xp and GeForce Ti 4400 card. I also have the same problem with another computer with the onboard integrated Intel graphics chip. If I deactivate the video driver, hitting a key during the intro movie will cause a strange failure with the video. The video will get stuck with a green and white picture of the last image on the video. The game will continue to play because I can hear the sounds (ie: menu slection, starting game, etc.... I memorized the key commands and input sequences).

The black outs and video problems disappeared after I tried installing Windows ME with the latest nvidia drivers, but left DirectX at version 7. Unfortunately, I cannot test it with the latest version of DirectX because my Windows ME drive just crashed.

So far fallout 2 does not have this problem on Windows XP except in a few areas.
 
Well, I think I know why my computer doesn't have any problems with FO2. I got lucky. I went to some Windows XP optimization (blackviper) web page and deactivated many of the useless services.

Also, I installed the minimal sound blaster drivers from creative wihtout their fancy control panels and mixers.
 
I made a mistake in my first posting here. I meant that I could only get Fallout 1 to work with Windows ME on my computer. I was a little confused about the discussion between fallout 1 and fallout 2.
 
Turns out I had a bad CD or something. I had a friend zip up all the files off his FO2 CD and send it to me and it worked perfectly without any tweaking at all. Thanks anyways for all the suggestions, though, I appreciate it.
 
Just for the record, it might come in useful to someone: I recently upgraded my system and found I could not run Fallout 2 with WinXP Pro on a 1,72GHz Celeron and a GeForce MX 440 - I got a blue screen with the installer or a green screen instead of the main menu. Now, what one needs to do in a situation like that is get the drivers from the Nvidia page http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp , they should allow the game to run smoothly without any compatibility modes nor such.
 
Silencer said:
Just for the record, it might come in useful to someone: I recently upgraded my system and found I could not run Fallout 2 with WinXP Pro on a 1,72GHz Celeron and a GeForce MX 440 - I got a blue screen with the installer or a green screen instead of the main menu. Now, what one needs to do in a situation like that is get the drivers from the Nvidia page http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp , they should allow the game to run smoothly without any compatibility modes nor such.
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I'm having the exact same problem you were (blue/green screen, game runs, movies work, no graphics), and those drivers didn't help. I've pretty much tried everything (disabling sound and video acceleration, disabling video drivers completely, every combination of compatibility modes, also regular and manual installs). If it helps at all I'm using a Dell pentium4, XP pro SP2, 512megs ram, geforce4mx, also I'm using a 1024x768 LCD monitor (which may be the problem). I could run Fallout 2 on this computer a year ago(it would crash occasionally, but still run), and all that's changed since then is upgrading XP from SP1 to SP2.
 
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