ClefairyTorii
First time out of the vault
Crashing Problem
Hi, im new to these boards (just recently found them by luck) and have a severe crashing problem with Fallout 2.
Background:
Just recently, i found a Fallout 2 disc. I heard from a friend that this game was better than BG2 (and i loved BG2) so i decided to give it a shot. I have never played this game before. Fallout 2 appeared to install correctly via setup. Game starts fine.
Computer Specs:
P4 1.4gig processor
GeForce 4 MX
512 ram
3gigs of free hard drive space, not including FO2
Windows XP
Old School Sound Blaster Pro :p
(Yeah, i could use some massive upgrades, but from what i can tell these specs should still be more than adequate to run FO2)
Problem:
Upon running the game, during movies, the game just crashes to desktop. It also freezes everything and requires a ctrl+alt+del to exit. This happens during the intro movie where it explains how humans didn't have enough space to live, etc.
Another point of crashing is the beginning movie. Where some robed figure tells u about a Chosen One. I dont know much about this because it crashes pretty quickly.
Note: These movies can be skipped by clicking early enough to prevent crashing.
Other than that, the game seemed to run fine. Character creation worked like a pro. The Temple of Trials level seemed to run fine.
After beating Cameron, the next movie where u see like a shirt, again crashes.
Sadly, skipping this video doesn't work though. After skipping this video, right when it says i received exp for winning, the entire game freezes but doesn't crash to desktop. I've yet to progress past this part.
Solutions:
I've tried damn near everything to remedy my situations. Such methods ive used were:
- A bajillion reinstalls
- The manual install
- Setting the game to run in win95, 98, 2000
- Shutting everything off prior to playing
- Shutting down my video card
- Setting dxdiag to basic
- 800 x 600 and 16bit resolution
- Even ran a defrag because i recall seeing something on this site referring to that.
Note: I will admit that the manual install was a bit confusing for me. While i was able to get the game working via the manual install (sadly with the usual crashing), there were certain aspects of it that i didn't understand.
1) I could not find the PATCH000.DAT file anywhere on my CD. I was however able to find the other 3 files.
2) I did not quite understand what was meant by creating my own config file. What i did was copy and paste what was posted on the Manual Install thread on notepad, and named the file Config.cfg. Whether this is correct, i have no idea.
Nothing has worked, and im damn near ready to drive down to my relatives place to get my old P2 100 just to play this game. If anyone has any other methods to get this to work, any advice at all, i will greatly appreciate it.
Hi, im new to these boards (just recently found them by luck) and have a severe crashing problem with Fallout 2.
Background:
Just recently, i found a Fallout 2 disc. I heard from a friend that this game was better than BG2 (and i loved BG2) so i decided to give it a shot. I have never played this game before. Fallout 2 appeared to install correctly via setup. Game starts fine.
Computer Specs:
P4 1.4gig processor
GeForce 4 MX
512 ram
3gigs of free hard drive space, not including FO2
Windows XP
Old School Sound Blaster Pro :p
(Yeah, i could use some massive upgrades, but from what i can tell these specs should still be more than adequate to run FO2)
Problem:
Upon running the game, during movies, the game just crashes to desktop. It also freezes everything and requires a ctrl+alt+del to exit. This happens during the intro movie where it explains how humans didn't have enough space to live, etc.
Another point of crashing is the beginning movie. Where some robed figure tells u about a Chosen One. I dont know much about this because it crashes pretty quickly.
Note: These movies can be skipped by clicking early enough to prevent crashing.
Other than that, the game seemed to run fine. Character creation worked like a pro. The Temple of Trials level seemed to run fine.
After beating Cameron, the next movie where u see like a shirt, again crashes.
Sadly, skipping this video doesn't work though. After skipping this video, right when it says i received exp for winning, the entire game freezes but doesn't crash to desktop. I've yet to progress past this part.
Solutions:
I've tried damn near everything to remedy my situations. Such methods ive used were:
- A bajillion reinstalls
- The manual install
- Setting the game to run in win95, 98, 2000
- Shutting everything off prior to playing
- Shutting down my video card
- Setting dxdiag to basic
- 800 x 600 and 16bit resolution
- Even ran a defrag because i recall seeing something on this site referring to that.
Note: I will admit that the manual install was a bit confusing for me. While i was able to get the game working via the manual install (sadly with the usual crashing), there were certain aspects of it that i didn't understand.
1) I could not find the PATCH000.DAT file anywhere on my CD. I was however able to find the other 3 files.
2) I did not quite understand what was meant by creating my own config file. What i did was copy and paste what was posted on the Manual Install thread on notepad, and named the file Config.cfg. Whether this is correct, i have no idea.
Nothing has worked, and im damn near ready to drive down to my relatives place to get my old P2 100 just to play this game. If anyone has any other methods to get this to work, any advice at all, i will greatly appreciate it.
