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

Hi, Mash.

There is a little bug in map edges for Vault 13/Primitive Tribe entrance maps.
When you fly to Vault 13 or Primitive Tribe, it is impossible to get back into the Vertibird. Screen doesn't scroll far enough to see the cabin.

I checked on HiRes patch version 4.0.2
 
Quote below by VagabonD SerpenT, a user of my mod, regarding the "disappears after Alt-Tab" issue -- from what I've seen it comes from 4.x.x series of f1_res, although I believe Mash said 3.x.x series experienced it as well.

-- So, I think it's safe to say that if the issue is old, it's become much more common in 4.x.x series.

VagabonD SerpenT said:
"It still would pop up from time to time whatever graphics mode I try. Had no such a bug when using [3.x series of f1_res]. I can't even tell it how persistant it is, because one time it would just plague you, other time it works more or less okay... It's just weird. From what I've seen, the bug is that after task switch was done, by some reason Fallout's window gets killed, only instance of the .exe runs in the background, and you can't get back to it by normal means. The only thing working for me was either kill process and restart, or to force window up top option in ProcessExplorer. After the latter one, task switching goes smooth and fine."

"Today, however, I've tried latest version [of f1_res] on dad's machine. His PC is weaker than mine and has no extension VPU, just the one built in the motherboard. So DX9 was too heavy for it (simply wouldn't work) and I had to switch to DX7. No glitches whatsoever. On my computer Fallout in DX7 mode lags like a slug riding a crippled snail and no glitches except of it. It works neat in DX9 though, but then this window death on minimize bug starts rearing its ugly head."
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Mash I thought this information could be helpful to researching the issue whenever you're active again, hence posting it here. Thanks 8-)
 
I'm running the 2.2 RP beta with the included 4.0.3 high res mod and I'm seeing some really gritty pixelation, bad kerning, and tiny text in larger resolutions, to the point where text is unreadable.

I should note I'm running the GOG Mac version of Fallout 2, which runs in a wine wrapper.

Bad kerning
http://i.imgur.com/zDhTect.png

Notice how the 'in' in cleansing is mashed together

Tiny subtitles at larger resolutions
http://i.imgur.com/Lo4svnk.png

I'm also seeing blocky pixelation on rounded edges, as if there were no smoothing.
 
Weird and ANNOYING problem!

Hello to you all, and congrats for this great community! :D

I 'm facing a strange problem with the latest version of the Hi-Resolution Patch, in a fresh install of F2. I decompress it to the proper folder, and when i run the patcher, the "ENABLE" button simply don't work! The .exe file is NOT write protected, since i UN-checked the "read-only" option, several times. :o

Weird thing is, that i also made the (secondary) hard disk, that the game is installed in, NON read-only, however, it keeps reverting back to read only. Despite all that, the /exe file as i said is not write protected, or so it seems... A have admin rights, btw, and i installed the game OUTSIDE the Program Files Directory.

My OS is WinXP SP3. Please help me! :cry:
 
The issue people are having with Alt-Tab, did that exist with HiRes version 3.0.6?
 
Sduibek said:
The issue people are having with Alt-Tab, did that exist with HiRes version 3.0.6?
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I don't believe so. Or at least it didn't happen with the version that came bundled with RP 2.1.2b.
 
Since Mash is busy at the moment, do we think it would be helpful for him if we made a bug report wiki?
 
Sduibek said:
Since Mash is busy at the moment, do we think it would be helpful for him if we made a bug report wiki?
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Wiki? No. Concise list in one place? Yes.
 
Sduibek said:
killap said:
Sduibek said:
Since Mash is busy at the moment, do we think it would be helpful for him if we made a bug report wiki?
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Wiki? No. Concise list in one place? Yes.
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So like in a post here or what?
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Sure, that's an option. The idea is to have all the info about the bugs in *one* place, but we also want to make it easy so he doesn't have to go through every post and potentially miss something. Having a central location will make his life easier.

So perhaps a "concise list in one place" does constitute a wiki. I guess I retract my initial statement. :wink: I initially wanted to steer clear of it because wikis can quickly get messy (like the RP wiki), but it's the easiest option. We just need to be sure he's aware of it and that it's not just a mass info dump. Isn't there already a high-res patch wiki entry on the fallout wikia?
 
Alright, so I can't mod or do anything worth a crap, but i'm getting Hi-Res patch error after my friend installed the NMA patch into my old Fallout game, and whenever I try to start it, I get a picture of a busted up Corvega, then the screen goes black, and I get a MovieDx Surface Creation Failed Sign. wat do. :crazy:
 
Sduibek said:
Has anyone found a solution for the "black box" issue? (640x480 black box on the screen that won't go away)
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From my limited experience thus far, it seems like everyone with this issue is using a 64-bit OS.


Sovengarde said:
Alright, so I can't mod or do anything worth a crap, but i'm getting Hi-Res patch error after my friend installed the NMA patch into my old Fallout game, and whenever I try to start it, I get a picture of a busted up Corvega, then the screen goes black, and I get a MovieDx Surface Creation Failed Sign. wat do. :crazy:
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Sovengarde,

You don't by chance have a "switchable" graphics card, do you? Or a graphics card with a Power-Save option.

If so, try this and let me know if it helps:

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60840
 
Thank You!

Hey dude, thank you so much for your work with this patch and all your advice on how to get it working. I really appreciate it--now I feel like a total badass playing Fallout on my laptop with perfect quality.

Mash said:
Sorry guys, with moving house and my computer troubles I havn't had the chance to log in here much lately.

@gvx: Glad to hear your multi language mod is working well. :)

Links in the first post have now been updated. I also renamed the topic to cater for all my hi-res patches.

@FitzyCyborgTurtle: Do you have Fallout installed under "Program Files"? If so, you should consider reinstalling in another folder (e.g. C:\Games\) as Win7 restricts what you can do under "Program Files".
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Sorry for bad english. Few years ago was created russian mod for f2 "global mode". Hi-res detected exe file of this mode as 1.02d US, but there are 61 other dwords. When mode runs, hi-res detects and logs it. After this mode runs normally, but side-bar position is wrong.

If i run normal (not from mode) exe, side-bar position ok. Very rarely mode exe runned with true side-bar position too. I have turn off/on sfall, edited pisition.ini file in f2_res directory, but have no positive effect. Know anibody, how i can change side-bar position?
PS. The problem is solved. Enough to change the resolution to 1366 * 768 and back to 1920 *1080 from the in-game menu.
 
For those following the "black box" issue, I've made a major breakthrough in testing/troubleshooting for it:

It seems to be caused by faulty main data files. I was able to duplicate it using a stripped-down version of the game (critter and master.dat down to about 100MB each) and got the black box issue.

I copied over master.dat and critter.dat from my working Fallout installation and the issue went away.

So we now know that having bad data files can cause it. This would assumedly due to the user running a unofficial version of the game, such as from a torrent, a fan-made translation, etc.

So from now on the first step in troubleshooting this issue is ask them the size of their critter.dat and master.dat files.
 
Mash,

There is a Direct Draw 7 mod problem that causes the conversation with the head of Abbey in Megamod v2.44 to

crash the game, after choosing to install the chip in your head and go downstairs. Bug is in HiRes v4.0.2 with default

settings. Setting the patch to DirectX 9 or Basic doesn't crash the game.

Savegame
 
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