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floop

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Hi, I've recently brought fallout 2, not playing it before on the sold-out budget label. Being a budget title it doesnt come with a manual, and I was just wondering if there was anyway to set the game resolution to a higher level using the fallout2.cfg file or something (i remember in baulders gate you could use setwidth and setheight) or whether I'm stuck playing the game in whatever the default resolution may be.

Cheers!
 
ok

oh well, guess i just got fooled by the pretty pictures on the back of the box, still looks arent everything right?
 
Re: ok

floop said:
oh well, guess i just got fooled by the pretty pictures on the back of the box, still looks arent everything right?
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That's true (*thinks about some really cute, but really mean girls he once knew*). In any case: don't throw it aside because of the poor graphics, or you'll miss one of the best games ever!

Also: the bigger your screen, the worse the graphics will be. I used to play it on a 15 inch screen, which was just great, but once I got this second-hand 19 inch screen I'm using now, I had problems concentrating on those pixels as well. I usually resize it with the buttons on my monitor, but that leaves black space on the sides, of course. Still, if you want the graphics to be a little bit smoother, you could try that... Just a hint, not a great one, but hey... :wink:
 
Poor graphics? You meant to write 'great graphics', haven't you? ;) Floop: Once you are playing continously for a couple dozens hours, the pixellation doesn't matter... the GAMEPLAY does ;)
 
Looks fine on my 22" screen. Obviously it's a bit blocky. Some newer cheap screens sometimes leave gabs between pixels in lower resolutions which might make it look crappy though.
 
floop said:
Hi, I've recently brought fallout 2, not playing it before on the sold-out budget label. Being a budget title it doesnt come with a manual
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There's a manual on the CD-ROM, or atleast there is on the UK version. It's located in D:/Manual/Manual.pdf (where D is your CD-ROM drive).
I don't know what it's like in comparison to the real manual, and, unfortunately, it's in pdf format, but it's there.
 
It's the actual manual. It's just not as cool without the spiral binding. :(
 
Dove said:
It's the actual manual. It's just not as cool without the spiral binding. :(
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Aye, and it's in gods-damned acrobat reader. I hate Adobe, and i fail to see any reason to use .pdf files.
 
Well, the nice thing about the pdf is if you have a good color printer you can print the front page - just like the real manual! Then print the rest of the manual with a good laser printer and spiral up the thing! The biggest problem might be finding a spiral-hole making machine. I would guess your local Office Depot should have some.

Where if you had it in any other format, you couldn't do that!

Ok, so you won't do it, but still, you have the option!
 
red said:
Where if you had it in any other format, you couldn't do that!
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What? Like a word file? Or a web page?
Oh, wait, you could do that with either of those...
 
Actually you couldn't have a 100% same layout in Word no matter the computer you view it on.

Don't even think about talking to me about HTML for print layout. Changing minor browser version changes everything...

As for Word, well, first it's quite limited in pagination, second you NEED ALL the fonts where Word doesn't provide them but PDFs do. That's pretty much it though. It's close but not quite enough. There's an extra problem regarding printer adapatation... Word tends to screw the layout when changing printers. I don't know the specifics of what happens when it does, but it did happen to me - and sadly too often, specially considering I only have a single printer in the house...
 
oooh, it would have been nice to have the front and back page in real leather....mmm, like its supposed to look like....
 
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