Good morning lads!
Long time reader, first time poster, etc.
Just thought I'd share my 2 cents about an issue I was having with my Fallout Collection (White Label) and my inability to get the original game to work at all on my HP Pavilion dv6 with *Switchable Graphics*.
This laptop (and others like it) feature a basic Intel HD Graphics chip (3000 series here), and also have a half-decent ATI 6770M GPU for 3D games (I actually had far less effort getting Fallout 3 playable)
This is 'intelligently switched' as needed, in order to maximise battery life.
--STEPS AND SYMPTOMS--
(this was all performed on Win 7 64-bit)
1. Install Fallout 1.
2. Patch up to any version (this had no bearing on results)
3. Load the game (doesn't matter which compatibility mode, they all failed)
4. Intro video "Interplay - By Gamers For Gamers" plays in a very grainy black-and-white format. Sound is audible.
5. Clicking through this (or waiting) results in a freeze at "Brian Fargo Presents")
6. At this stage, Escape can be pressed to return to Windows.
--FIX--
1. Right-click on the desktop (or open Catalyst display settings via another means) and choose "Switchable Graphics"
2. Click the "Power-saving GPU" button.
3. Load Fallout again.
Now it's working perfectly!*
*aside from colour palette glitches, but this can be remedied by simply keeping Advanced Display Properties open (the Windows one) or killing explorer.exe temporarily via task-manager.
I am posting this fix here because no amount of Googling had resulted in a solution for me.
I have spent a good couple of hours on trial and error, and had resorted to installing VMWare on this laptop and running Fallout on a virtual Windows XP machine, but this had audio issues (static sounding sometimes), mild input lag and an inability to play fullscreen in 4:3 ratio (it kept stretching the image to 16:9 - HD patch wasn't used however).
I can only assume this fix works for Fallout 2 also (haven't installed it yet) and I hope that this post solves at least one other fan of the series from rage related headaches!
Long time reader, first time poster, etc.
Just thought I'd share my 2 cents about an issue I was having with my Fallout Collection (White Label) and my inability to get the original game to work at all on my HP Pavilion dv6 with *Switchable Graphics*.
This laptop (and others like it) feature a basic Intel HD Graphics chip (3000 series here), and also have a half-decent ATI 6770M GPU for 3D games (I actually had far less effort getting Fallout 3 playable
)This is 'intelligently switched' as needed, in order to maximise battery life.
--STEPS AND SYMPTOMS--
(this was all performed on Win 7 64-bit)
1. Install Fallout 1.
2. Patch up to any version (this had no bearing on results)
3. Load the game (doesn't matter which compatibility mode, they all failed)
4. Intro video "Interplay - By Gamers For Gamers" plays in a very grainy black-and-white format. Sound is audible.
5. Clicking through this (or waiting) results in a freeze at "Brian Fargo Presents")
6. At this stage, Escape can be pressed to return to Windows.
--FIX--
1. Right-click on the desktop (or open Catalyst display settings via another means) and choose "Switchable Graphics"
2. Click the "Power-saving GPU" button.
3. Load Fallout again.
Now it's working perfectly!*
*aside from colour palette glitches, but this can be remedied by simply keeping Advanced Display Properties open (the Windows one) or killing explorer.exe temporarily via task-manager.
I am posting this fix here because no amount of Googling had resulted in a solution for me.
I have spent a good couple of hours on trial and error, and had resorted to installing VMWare on this laptop and running Fallout on a virtual Windows XP machine, but this had audio issues (static sounding sometimes), mild input lag and an inability to play fullscreen in 4:3 ratio (it kept stretching the image to 16:9 - HD patch wasn't used however).
I can only assume this fix works for Fallout 2 also (haven't installed it yet) and I hope that this post solves at least one other fan of the series from rage related headaches!