Okay, I have a small problem which I've tried to google in countless incarnations, and I couldn't find anyone dealing with it.
Basically, the official Fallout 2 patch 1.02 doesn't work on Vista x64. While Fallout 2 as a game will install on the x64 system (and is one of the few rare old games that has an installer that can be run on x64) and play flawlessly, the patch however will not run (in any mode whatsoever) because Vista bitches that it's "not designed for x64 blah blah blah, you're shit out of luck, revert to XP if you want to play games".
I was wondering if anyone was or is able to modify the patch so that whatever error it generates is ignored by Vista and it allows me to patch, or maybe give me some info on how to patch in any kind of other way if possible, without having to run it conventionally.
I've just played and finished the game with killap's 1.02.22 update this past few days (it was a good excuse to play the game once again) but I could really not be sure that I was, shall we say, "on top of" the bugs, because I installed that update over 1.00 (since I couldn't patch to 1.02). I've encountered a fair amount of bugs, but it seemed pointless to report any of them to killap for the purposes of his mod, because for all I knew, the bugs were just there because I wasn't able to patch to 1.02 official.
So any comments or help are appreciated. I'm sure it'd be good to sort this out for any and all Vista x64 users that would want to play this great old game.
Basically, the official Fallout 2 patch 1.02 doesn't work on Vista x64. While Fallout 2 as a game will install on the x64 system (and is one of the few rare old games that has an installer that can be run on x64) and play flawlessly, the patch however will not run (in any mode whatsoever) because Vista bitches that it's "not designed for x64 blah blah blah, you're shit out of luck, revert to XP if you want to play games".
I was wondering if anyone was or is able to modify the patch so that whatever error it generates is ignored by Vista and it allows me to patch, or maybe give me some info on how to patch in any kind of other way if possible, without having to run it conventionally.
I've just played and finished the game with killap's 1.02.22 update this past few days (it was a good excuse to play the game once again) but I could really not be sure that I was, shall we say, "on top of" the bugs, because I installed that update over 1.00 (since I couldn't patch to 1.02). I've encountered a fair amount of bugs, but it seemed pointless to report any of them to killap for the purposes of his mod, because for all I knew, the bugs were just there because I wasn't able to patch to 1.02 official.
So any comments or help are appreciated. I'm sure it'd be good to sort this out for any and all Vista x64 users that would want to play this great old game.
