Just to start off: Yes, I did search.
I just started playing Fallout and Fallout 2 for the first time a couple days ago, having heard that they were great games and getting copies from a friend.
Both install just fine on my Windows XP computer. When trying to play Fallout, though, then as soon as I enter the main game the screen more-or-less randomly goes all-black. It's possible to restore each pixel to its correct state by waving the mouse around a lot (ie, by making the game redraw the screen), but this happens often enough I've yet to make it through killing the first rat before quitting out of frustration. Going back I've discovered that it works all right in DOSBox on my desktop (though fairly slowly, even on my A64 @ 2.36), but is too slow to really be happily playable.
So I turned to Fallout 2, which I thought might not have that bug. And for a long while, it worked fine. But I slowly started noticing a consistant bug: when traveling through the world map, I randomly(? not sure about that, actually) get a pop-up box that tells me there's been an integer divide-by-zero error, at which point I can't do anything but force quit the game. Oddly enough, it's also gotten worse and worse as time has gone on. I think I first noticed it when going from the Den to New Reno, but it's now to the point that I can't move from the Ghost Farm to Modoc (ie, about 20 pixels) without force-quitting and restarting about 3 times. Loading up a game from the beginning of the game reveals that the bug is present then, too, but I had to travel much, much farther to hit it.
Both Fallout and Fallout 2 are patched to the latest official versions (1.1 in Fallout, 1.2 in F2). I also tried the 1.05 patch for F2, though I didn't start a new game and it didn't help. I'm running WinXP SP2 with a Geforce 6600GT and Forceware 91.28 (I upgraded to these to see if it would randomly help with F1; I previously had 8x.xx and it didn't work in those either). Running in Compatibility Mode for Windows 95 doesn't help. For Fallout 1, I've also tried the 640*480, 256 color compatibility options and setting my desktop to 800*600, 16-bit colors. None of these options help.
Anybody have any ideas?
I just started playing Fallout and Fallout 2 for the first time a couple days ago, having heard that they were great games and getting copies from a friend.
Both install just fine on my Windows XP computer. When trying to play Fallout, though, then as soon as I enter the main game the screen more-or-less randomly goes all-black. It's possible to restore each pixel to its correct state by waving the mouse around a lot (ie, by making the game redraw the screen), but this happens often enough I've yet to make it through killing the first rat before quitting out of frustration. Going back I've discovered that it works all right in DOSBox on my desktop (though fairly slowly, even on my A64 @ 2.36), but is too slow to really be happily playable.
So I turned to Fallout 2, which I thought might not have that bug. And for a long while, it worked fine. But I slowly started noticing a consistant bug: when traveling through the world map, I randomly(? not sure about that, actually) get a pop-up box that tells me there's been an integer divide-by-zero error, at which point I can't do anything but force quit the game. Oddly enough, it's also gotten worse and worse as time has gone on. I think I first noticed it when going from the Den to New Reno, but it's now to the point that I can't move from the Ghost Farm to Modoc (ie, about 20 pixels) without force-quitting and restarting about 3 times. Loading up a game from the beginning of the game reveals that the bug is present then, too, but I had to travel much, much farther to hit it.
Both Fallout and Fallout 2 are patched to the latest official versions (1.1 in Fallout, 1.2 in F2). I also tried the 1.05 patch for F2, though I didn't start a new game and it didn't help. I'm running WinXP SP2 with a Geforce 6600GT and Forceware 91.28 (I upgraded to these to see if it would randomly help with F1; I previously had 8x.xx and it didn't work in those either). Running in Compatibility Mode for Windows 95 doesn't help. For Fallout 1, I've also tried the 640*480, 256 color compatibility options and setting my desktop to 800*600, 16-bit colors. None of these options help.
Anybody have any ideas?
