Fallout 2 on Windows 7

What I did to fix the rainbow color problem is download the high resolution patches for F1 and F2, switch it to 32 bit color and it was good.
 
Timeslip said:
PastaMasta said:
Installed Sfall, still getting the rainbow glitch. Patches installed with no problems however.
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Installing it on its own isn't going to help you if you don't set up the options to actually do anything. Read the faq that came with it; your rainbow problems come under the heading of psychedelic colour schemes.
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Hello I'm new here, so welcome everybody.

The simplest solution to your problem for all Windows 7 x64 users is copying ddraw.dll file from Fallout 1 folder (assuming you have it installed) and pasting it in Fallout 2 folder.
Believe me it works like a charm, also fixes the crazy map travel speed issue that haunted F2 on new computers.
 
Summito said:
The simplest solution to your problem for all Windows 7 x64 users is copying ddraw.dll file from Fallout 1 folder (assuming you have it installed) and pasting it in Fallout 2 folder.
Believe me it works like a charm, also fixes the crazy map travel speed issue that haunted F2 on new computers.
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Vanilla fallout 1 contains no such file. Interplay have taken to bundling community mods with their current batch of rereleases, so that file is either from fallout 1 engine tweaks, (which I still refuse to call sfall. :P) or, since I've only seen it mentioned over at the GoG forums till now, possibly something that GoG wrote themselves.

In any case, anyone who has a copy of fallout 1 new enough to have that mod attached probably also has a version of fallout 2 new enough that it bundles sfall, in which case modifying ddraw.ini is the better option. (Or, better still, get the newest version. The copy interplay bundle was out of date when they first started doing it, and is ancient by now.)
 
I bought both Fallout 1 & 2 from GOG and F1 contains this file and presents no problems with gameplay whatsoever. GOG's F2 doesn't contain it.
Anyway, just wanted to post this since it's the only thing that worked for me to get rid of that glitch. Modifying ddraw.ini didn't. No other solution seems to work for Windows 7 x64 users (it has to be something about the OS)
If anybody doesn't have this file i can send it via e-mail.
 
Summito said:
I bought both Fallout 1 & 2 from GOG and F1 contains this file and presents no problems with gameplay whatsoever. GOG's F2 doesn't contain it.
Anyway, just wanted to post this since it's the only thing that worked for me to get rid of that glitch. Modifying ddraw.ini didn't. No other solution seems to work for Windows 7 x64 users (it has to be something about the OS)
If anybody doesn't have this file i can send it via e-mail.
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Wait, fallout 2 from GoG had a ddraw.ini, but not a ddraw.dll? That's... odd, given that they're both part of the same mod. Was there an sfall.dll?
 
Looking at it now. Regardless of how odd it seems Fallout 1 has ddraw.dll and that's it. Fallout 2 has both ddraw.ini and ddraw.dll, but no sfall.dll. I'm not sure if ddraw.ini was there originally. I might have put it there when i was looking for solution to that glitch.
 
Hmm...I'm having a different issue, and it seems tied to the fact that I have dual monitors.

To avoid the 'Failure initializing input devices' error, I set background keyboard and mouse to 1. This allowed me to start/play Fallout 2, but at the same time, the mouse "drifts" in the background, causing me to inadvertently click on my left (secondary monitor), leaving the game and irritating me tremendously.

Is there some workaround for this? I know I can't be the only one to have experienced this issue.
 
Running Win7 x64, I'm having similar problems as NFSlugger13.
If I try to run the game with directx9 enabled it gives me the same error. However, if I disable my second monitor (using an ATI card) it starts but the video still looks wonky (but with correct colors).

It starts in windowed mode just fine, even with a second monitor enabled, however the video is still wonky as in the link below:

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1056/fallout2.gif

If I start it without directx9 enabled the videos run correctly but with the colors off.
 
Got it to work by actually not using the dx9 mode (Mode=0 in ddraw.ini) and setting COLOUR_BITS=16 in f2_res.ini, now it runs like a charm even with fullscreen and both monitors on.
 
just set your desktop background to "solid colors" and then right click the desktop and open "screen resolution", leave that open and start up fallout...works perfectly for Fallout 2. No rainbow color glitch.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
 
A bump for the windows 7 topic :)

I recently installed the game, patched it witth Killap unoficial and Childrens patch. When I play the game it freezes after some time. I cant do anything, no ctrl-alt-del, space, esc, mouse, nothing. The only way is to turn off the computer :/

The music does keep playing, but it seems to run in a 10 sec loop. Also it seems to happen more frequent. It now happends every 20 mins or so.

Ive read something about the skill button being unusuable and turning black, but that is not my issue. I wish I had a mousepointer to get to the skillbutton ;)

Anyone an idea what it could be? Cheers :)
 
hey everyone!

i'm also having problems on win7. At first it was rainbow effect and freezing of the game. i managed to fix the rainbows with Sfall, but the game still ocassionally totally freezes - the only solution is to manually turn off the computer. There seems to be no logic to where this total freeze happens...
thanx for any advice!
 
Colour problem Fix

I used the very handy info from this topic to get Fallout2 working to being with, and also to get hold of the regeneration project, unofficial patch and sfall....but none of them fixed my psychodelic graphic glitch.

After a bit of searching i found this PalettestealerSuspender
Which has fixed by graphics and made the game awesome again :D
Just thought i share for anyone still having issues.
 
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