PIP-Boy Problem and a font/text trick

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Hmm I was deep down in the military base when suddenly my companions started healing themselves..Out of combat mode at first this would seem pretty cool when the automaticaly use their stimpacks when not in combat but when they start using regulary healing it get weird..The time just passes by and you have no control..Well Then I discovered that my skilldex button was black!..there was this nice black square above the skilldex button. This resulted in the fact that I couldn't use the mouse to open the skilldex but the "s"-key worked fine...The plot thickens.. The last thing I noticed was when I was inside the pip-boy the "bell" sleep button would get black too..Hmm..After some loading and fiddling around I seem to have narrowed it down to this: When I use one to many holodisk (This prolly depends on have many you have read during the entire game) The above happends.. I'm not sure it's related to the maps...Infact the first time it happend was on lv2 in the base but if I didn't read the holodisk on lv2 it occured when I read the lv3 holodisk..so I'm pretty sure it's not the maps. So when I'm at this point everything works fine until the point where I enter my pipboy..then these black squares and stuff happends..The only way I can get it to dissapear is by complety exiting the game. not just to the main menu even if I load another game the problem is still there, so I have to wuit the game entirely. This sounds like a memory leak to me, but I'm already using v1.02d and everything is closed when I press ctrl-alt-del, the game states you should be able to run with 16mb ram and I have 32..yeah I know not much :). So ´now I'm stuck playing without my pipboy or I could use the pipboy and then exit the game...This kinda ruins the fun abit. So if anyone got and Idea how to fix it..let me know...Also I had some problems with the font/text eventhough the path was correct in the .cfg file it couldn't find it, but after I coppied the master.dat to the root of the drive and altered the .cfg to point to the root it worked fine.. dunno why but it worked :)
 
Sometimes the PipBoy does stupid things. I believe Black Isle had to send F2 on a certain day so a few things were left uncorredted.
Just go to the F-Files and download the F2 patch, the PipBoy and many other things will be corrected.
 
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear..I already got the patch installed, so it's something else :)

-Heh.. I bet re-installing windows would fix it but I really don't feel like it :)
 
I had a similar problem in Fallout 1. The inventory-button and the skills-button went black, but the shortcuts worked.
As you said, I think the game needs more memory.
NPCs, party members, a inventory full with objekts (and of course Windows) eats memory.

Perhaps we should buy a few more RAM units....
 
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