Hi-Res Patches for Fallout1&2 & the BIS Mapper

I managed to get this running at my monitor's native resolution after using the manual setting, but the refresh rate is locked to 70. The monitor reports this as a supported mode but unfortunately it does not report that it makes everything look like blurry cat sick. Is it possible to let us specify refresh rate?

 

Does this mean scrolling outside the blockers of the map will no longer occur with your patch?

 

Keep up the good work. The FO2 res patch is pretty much perfect for me. I only have minor quibbles such as seeing the outside of maps and the smaller chat screens. If there was a way to freeze it to a lower res independent of the rest of the game, or somehow stretch them to fill the screen more, it'd be a lot easier on the eyes.

 

It's actually pretty easy if you let sfall do the work for you: The value at 0x51871C seems to be 1 if a conversation window is open. So if one modifies sfall to present an upscaled 640x480 rectangle instead of the whole surface if this value is 1 then the desired effect is archived. This only zooms the dialog window but Fallout2 still thinks that it is rendering to a higher resolution meaning that the mouse cursor can go outside the visible area, which feels a little awkward. One might want to modify fallout2.exe to restrict the cursor to the size of the dialog window if aforementioned value is 1. The mouse cursor restriction is handled in the function at 0x4CAA38. Anyway, it looks like this:

 

Well, that`s looks really nice

 

Well, any news about when hi-res patch for Fallout 1 could be ready?

 

Hi,

i had the same problem. Installed the newest patch version (rock check OK), but the problem remains. I'm running wine on Fedora 7. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

I have a usability question in relation to the resolution patch. I find it very annoying to move around maps with this patch because the distance you can move in one click is maybe half the size of a large map. Anything longer and the pathing algorithm thinks you can't get there.

My guess is that there's just some hard-coded value somewhere that is the maximum number of times the algo will iterate to check for a path. I'm wondering if there would be a way that your patcher could increase the depth with which the pathing algorithm will search for a path to a target location.

Of course, this guess is straight out of my ass, and I don't have the disassembly skilzz to figure out if I'm right...

 

Sorry for misplacing my post - i'm not using the res patch. I searched with google and didn't notice that this duscussion is primarily about the res patch.

 

Increasing the maximum walking distance isn't that easy because it is not limited by a specific number of hexes. Instead it is limited by the amount of memory that is reserved for pathing. That memory is in fixed locations and if you would tell the pathing function to use a larger area then it would just overwrite some other data which will quite probably lead to a crash. Hence a lot of patching has to be done.

The pathing function seems to begin at 0x415EFC, it contains many references to 0x542xxx, 0x561xxx and 0x562xxx memory addresses. One would have to allocate some larger memory areas and patch some of the commands in the function to use those new areas instead of the aforementioned ones. Then you could increase the limits which seem to be set at:

Code:

0x415FE3      CMP EAX,9C40          //40000=2000*20bytes
0x4160D6      CMP EDI,9C40          //40000
0x416175      CMP ESI,7D0           //2000

This should enable you to walk further. I might have missed something and maybe there is an easier way, but I couldn't find one.

 

Works for me!

The pathing is a little strange, you tend to favour paths that go towards the top-right corner of the screen, even to the point of running the long way around buildings. But it's certainly nicer than clicking a number of times

 

Hi,

I dont know if this is the right place to ask for help, but ive had a look around, on google mostly, on how to fix the problem im having with the res patch - didnt find anything. I installed the us version of fallout2 then the latest killap unoffical patch, then the latest restoration project and finally this res patch. My screen is 1900X1200, i can start the game fine and play the temple of trials, but after what seems 5 minutes or so the screen will go black all i can do is press escape and it goes back to the desktop. I unistalled the res patch and i played for about 2 hours without a crash. It seemed to crash when changing maps, once when leaving the temple of trials and once when entering klamath - i think? anyway is there a way to get around this, since its much nicer on the eyes at the higher res

thanks for working on this patch

-edit - i ran through temple of trials the second time, it didnt crash when changing maps that time? so not sure if its map changing or just random