Fallout 1 / XP Technical Problems

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Fallout is extremely unstable for me under windows XP, I was getting the dr watson error as well as blue screens and general protection faults in falloutw.exe. Disabled the DW process & unticked error reporting but am still getting blackouts/crashes every 10 minutes . I am running fallout in 95' compatability mode, 256 bit colour, have set desktop resolutions as described in the FAQ's (800x600x16/640x480x8) and tried various levels of hardware acceleration for both the graphics and sound devices,

Basically at this point I have given up running fallout natively under XP, no other game crashes for me like this so I am pretty sure that its some hardware incompatibility causing the problem. I would be eternally grateful for either further suggestions of what to tweak in XP or a link on how to get DosBox properly configured. I have searched the forums but haven't come up with much other than the impression several people here have it running under DosBox, I can get it to start but it locks up after the loading screen - if its actually possible to make it work then I can post detailed config informatiion but I suspected that there are probably better places to beg for DosBox help.

I am also considering installing Virtual PC and using my old windows 98 CD to try and get FO1 working properly - however for the cost of the program it would be cheaper to just set up some POS box dedicated to fallout.

System:
Nvidia 6800
AMD Athlon XP
Sata Raid
MAudio Audiophile 24/96

Software:
Windows XP SP2 / latest updates
directX 9.0c
Fallout 1 v1.1, manual maximum install, no mods.
[system] free_space=0
Latest NVIDIA drivers
Latest 4in1 VIA drivers
 
Finally someone who has read stickies.

As for DosBox, what does your config look like under DosBox? Dosbox works with mounts, as you should know, so it does work with mounts in the config file as well. So make the directory points in the config relative to Dosbox's mounts.
Oh, and you should obviously use the DOS installation for DosBox.
 
i tried to install fallout 1 on weekend and it was no problem to do it. (I have the newest fallout 1, 2 and (3) compilation) After install i looked in into windows/system32/autoexec.nt to find my soundblaster variables...

in the Fallout1 sound install exe there is displayed the information that the game supports Soundblaster 1.0 and my System only supports 2.0. Can this be the problem for sound interrupts ?

because Fallout1, runs very nicely on my Win XP SP2 system but, the sound interrupts every "2 sec.", The game is running, only the sound stops, and stops .... aaargh... very bad :((((

What do you think, what could the problem be ? sorry for my bad english :( thx in advance
syn

PS: i found this http://nma-fallout.telefragged.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2338
maybe it will help ?! thx anyway and i will try dosbox as well.
 
I used a vanilla dosBox install with some GUI and copied plus renamed the fallout.exe sound.exe and copied the 4GW and dlls - I'm at work right now so I don't have the exact config details to hand, but mount points sounds like a good starting place, thanks :)
 
Solved, Fixed, Wahoo!

I disabled write combining (display properties -> settings -> advanced - > troubleshoot) and not a crash to be seen, plus its blacking out about half as much as before.

EDIT
Added a post to the sticky.
 
my problem is solved, too. i used the wront exe. i tried the falloutw.exe and now the game is runnoing :) yuhuuu *G*
 
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