Windows XP

[Guest]

I'm having some technical difficulty installing fallout 1 to my new computer. I have XP on it and it's saying 'this version of Windows is not supported by this product' Is there nothing I can do? I installed fallout 2 no problemo.

Any help would be, ummm, well, helpful.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I had this problem and here is how I solved it,(it works with many other programs that don't seem to work right away)

Put CD in and then close down any window that opens,
On the start menu go to programs, then accessories,system tools (I think), program compatiblity wizard.
This will open the XP compatability wizard. Go through the menu by clicking next, when it asks where the program is you want to run choose run from CD (If you have a problem with a program already installed you can choose from a list of installed programs). The on compatability mode choose Win98/Mill as compatability mode(On some games win 2000 works best, but not with fallout),next page when it asks for stuff like 640X480, 256 colours, etc ignore ALL of these and leave unchecked(should be 3 of them), now you will be asked if the program worked(The program will open and attempt to run and you won't be able to say yes/no yet), after you close the program you will have the compatablity wizard open with the same screen and you can save the settings so the program will always use these setting from now.
(If you want to change these setting later you can right click on the program executabe in explorer and choose properties and the compatability)

Hope this works, sorry it is so long winded!

They're full of meaty goodness!

 

[Odin]

Try this:
1. Copy d:\program\win\falloutw.___ to c:\fallout\falloutw.exe.

2. Create a text file in c:\fallout called fallout.cfg and add the following line to it:
[system]

3. You now have 4 options corresponding to the 4 install sizes:
3a. Do not copy anything else. This is the same as the smallest install, but is also the slowest way to play the game. If you do this, make sure you follow the steps in 3b, 3c & 3d below for editing the config file.

3b. Copy d:\master.dat to c:\fallout\master.dat. This file is 318 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following on the next line in c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
master_dat=d:\master.dat

3c. Copy d:\critter.dat to c:\fallout\critter.dat. This file is 150 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following on the next line in c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
critter_dat=d:\critter.dat

3d. Copy the entire d:\data folder to c:\fallout\data. This is 73 MB.
If you do _not_ do this step, add the following two lines to c:\fallout\fallout.cfg:
[sound]
music_path2=d:\data\sound\music

4. Add the following line to your [system] block:
free_space=0

5. Make sure you close and save your changes to the c:\fallout\fallout.cfg file.

For example, if you chose to not copy any of the data files over, you should have a fallout.cfg file that looks like this:

[system]
master_dat=d:\master.dat
critter_dat=d:\critter.dat
free_space=0
[sound]
music_path2=d:\data\sound\music

That should be it! Just run c:\fallout\falloutw.exe to play the game

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