Fallout 1/2 windowed mode possible?

T-Bolt said:
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Did you download it and try it?
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OK I'll do that

Yes I tried it and I assumed it was for the UK ver because I've tried unpacking a bunch of files from that site and none of them are recognized.
 
You can play Fallout(2) in windowed mode without any problems - as long as you use Linux and Wine. I've written a short guide here (it is on Fallout: Between Good & Evil mod webpage), which will improve your gaming experience (removes mouse lag), but generally, Fallout works on Linux out of the box, e.g. without patches to slow map movement. screenshots are at the end of the guide.

You can run DOS version of Fallout in DOSBox too, but it is extremely slow (unless you have dual-core beast, + no patches).

linux_screen1.png
 
Fallout 1 and dxwnd

So I have tried using dxwnd to run Fallout in windowed mode. I does run windowed, and with the proper colors, but after it gets past the interplay movie and the opening movie, the video freezes. More specifically, I can hear the sound played at the menu screen, and if I press ESC the game exits, but I can't see the menu screen, all I see is whatever was on screen when I pressed a key during the opening movie. What might be causing this?
 
i;'ve thought of giving f2 another run through with mods ...

DxWnd works ok but is quite buggy - the resize is nice but its done on a pixel basis so it looks ugly
but D3Dwindower works perfectly :D

thank you for this thread
 
D3D Windower seems to be giving me some problems, as when I click on the computer button or double click on FALLOUT2.EXE, nothing happens. anyone else have this problem? I'd love to run FO2 in windowed mode...
 
Alright, I just bought Fallout for the first time and cannot figure out why DxWnd is not working.

I used several versions of DxWnd and can't get it to work. I am running XP fully patched and my graphics are nVidia 6800.

Is there another program I could try? Do I need magical powers to make this work? I have seen this work in screenshots but I can't figure it out. I sure would like to play Fallout.

SO, I finally got DxWnd to kinda work. It is using 100% cpu and the window is super small. Is there anyway to increase the window size? I've tried manually putting in a larger size but it always defaults to the small screen. Makes it hard to see.

Any help would be appreciated.


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Hi,
I just discovered D3DWindower and it "works" ...
In fact, the entire game is slowed down... (Music, animation, loadings)

I've read the 6 pages of this post, but I didn't see anything about fixing this.
Did I miss something, do you have some solution to this ?

Help me, I want to play windowed Fallout :'(

Edit : I just tested this :
If I uncheck the 2 colour options in D3D, the game is running at normaly speed, but the colours are... psychedelic :D
If I check these two options, colours are normal, but the game is slow >.<
 
3dwindower is indeed a very good tool. About that game speed problem, fallout uses loops in it's engine like some other old games from that time. I've used ThreadMaster, a Application based CPU quota mamagement tool to limit cpu usage of Fallout 2.exe (about 10% of 3.0GHz = 300MHz). I got some decent results while experimenting but it required a lot of "regedit" and cuts the cpu time also. You can try this but i'm strongly AGAINST it because it messes up other aplications that are not in "exclude" list in reg settings. Still, fallout exe uses whole cpu time for those nasty "loops" and that's the main cause of slow performance, high cpu usage, high cpu fan speed... The best result you can get without using some advanced apps is setting process affinity (dual core, cpus with (HT) hyperthread...)
I know that fallout2 can run on 166mhz(i tried it :lol:), windowed mode consumes a bit more resources however.
 
Hi people, can you help me? Please.

Ive tried running fallout 2 on windowed version, but it opens on normal fullscreen. Ive tried with Dxwnd and with D3DWindower-English. But both do not opèn. Is there a special setting i need to put?

Thanks
 
Sry, for post and bumping old thread.

Anyway, I am trying to do the same thing with another game. Its almost working, except the surface is drawing outside the window.

Screenshot :
wtf3os8.jpg


Maybe some of you know what is my problem.

Thank you.
 
Hello...
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or implied in the previous pages, but it seems to be quite simple to run fallout 2 ( with the unofficial patch) in windowed mode... You only have to edit 'ddraw.ini' and change 'Mode' to 1, 3 or 5 for 8-bit, 16-bit and dx9 (color depth respectively) windowed...

This is what I've done :
Code: 
[Graphics]
;Set to 0 for 8 bit fullscreen
;Set to 1 for 8 bit windowed
;Set to 2 for 16 bit fullscreen
;Set to 3 for 16 bit windowed
;Set to 4 for dx9 fullscreen
;Set to 5 for dx9 windowed
;Mode 1 requires your desktop colour depth to be set to 32 bit
;Windowed modes incur a performance hit. (Modes 1 and 5 more so than mode 3)
;The 16 bit colour modes cause movies to display incorrect colours, and slows down fades
;dx9 modes cause some corruption of movies, but not as bad as 16 bit colour modes
;16 bit colour modes only work in fallout 2
;dx9 modes work with fallout 1, but results in movies being completely corrupted
;A dx9 mode is required for any graphics related script extender functions to work (i.e. fullscreen shaders)
;Mode=0
Mode=5

a screenshot :
[img=http://img140.imagevenue.com/loc617/th_28319_falout-windowed_122_617lo.jpg]

Cheers ;D
 
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