I recently picked up a copy of Fallout Trilogy from Best Buy. I've always wanted to play the fallout series; I've been a big fan of black isle my whole gaming life and loved what they did with Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment. Unfortunately, I can't get Fallout Trilogy to even begin installation.
When I put the disk into the DVD drive windows explorer immediately grinds to a halt. If I am impatient and try to do anything else with windows explorer it crashes. If I wait about five minutes, I eventually get an error message that says " ". After I get this message I can use windows explorer again, so I go into the D:\ drive and manually explore. I can see the files Data1.cab through Data5.cab, Setup.exe, Fallout.ico, and Autorun, although it all acts very sluggish. If I tell the drive to run the disk, windows explorer locks up again for about five minutes and then gives me the same error. If I manually run setup.exe the same thing happens.
Basically, no matter how I start setup.exe, either through auto-run, telling the disk to run, or manually executing the file, it bugs out.
I am running on Vista 64 Ultimate; I would not be surprised if this is part of the cause. I've read elsewhere that it installs just fine even on Vista 64, though. I've also triple checked all my drivers and windows updates and everything is up to date.
The drive I'm using is 3 years old; it's the only piece of this computer that isn't brand new (I salvaged it off my last computer since it works just fine). It occurred to me that maybe it isn't working well any more, but after trying a sampling of other DVDs I've got and it works just fine with those. On another thread with a similar problem it is mentioned that the Fallout Trilogy disk is a dual layer DVD and that could be the problem but the newegg description of this drive states that it can burn dual layer DVDs... it only stands to reason that it should be able to read them. Here's the link to my exact model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827152060
The disk looks fine, physically. I don't see any scratches or faults. I'm tempted to return it and swap it for another one to see if maybe there is some invisible fault to it that renders it unreadable but I find it unlikely that it'll help any.
Any help at all would be appreciated. I would love to be able to play this game.
Edit: Urgh, I can no longer get it to display the error notice any more. Now it just locks up instantly. Still, it said something about Setup.exe not being a Win32 compatible file.
When I put the disk into the DVD drive windows explorer immediately grinds to a halt. If I am impatient and try to do anything else with windows explorer it crashes. If I wait about five minutes, I eventually get an error message that says " ". After I get this message I can use windows explorer again, so I go into the D:\ drive and manually explore. I can see the files Data1.cab through Data5.cab, Setup.exe, Fallout.ico, and Autorun, although it all acts very sluggish. If I tell the drive to run the disk, windows explorer locks up again for about five minutes and then gives me the same error. If I manually run setup.exe the same thing happens.
Basically, no matter how I start setup.exe, either through auto-run, telling the disk to run, or manually executing the file, it bugs out.
I am running on Vista 64 Ultimate; I would not be surprised if this is part of the cause. I've read elsewhere that it installs just fine even on Vista 64, though. I've also triple checked all my drivers and windows updates and everything is up to date.
The drive I'm using is 3 years old; it's the only piece of this computer that isn't brand new (I salvaged it off my last computer since it works just fine). It occurred to me that maybe it isn't working well any more, but after trying a sampling of other DVDs I've got and it works just fine with those. On another thread with a similar problem it is mentioned that the Fallout Trilogy disk is a dual layer DVD and that could be the problem but the newegg description of this drive states that it can burn dual layer DVDs... it only stands to reason that it should be able to read them. Here's the link to my exact model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827152060
The disk looks fine, physically. I don't see any scratches or faults. I'm tempted to return it and swap it for another one to see if maybe there is some invisible fault to it that renders it unreadable but I find it unlikely that it'll help any.
Any help at all would be appreciated. I would love to be able to play this game.
Edit: Urgh, I can no longer get it to display the error notice any more. Now it just locks up instantly. Still, it said something about Setup.exe not being a Win32 compatible file.
You can download the unofficial patches here at NMA anyway.