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For everyone's technical reference and enlightenment, it seems that at least SOME Windows XP machines are able to run Fallout 1 without problems. I just got a new (to me at least) IBM Thinkpad laptop computer, and I put Fallout 2 on it (Favorite game to play on travel!) On a whim, since I haven't played it as much, I put Fallout 1 on it... Well I expected the little message about how Fallout Cannot run Under this Kernel operating system.. etc. But instead I got an install screen, and it installed. I patched it, set the system to 95 compatability and made no other changes, and it loads up and runs fine!

The Thinkpad is a 900 MhZ Celeron with 384 MB of RAM, 8MB of graphics, and Windows XP SP2 with all relevant updates from IBM and Microsoft... I don't know but I'd guess it has to do with SP2 or some similar update. I tried to install it on a friend's Dell desktop that hadn't seen update or internet in years, and it gave me the message. Manual install off the disk yielded a game that crashed even after patching and compatability mode, no matter what we did.
 
I have the same thing going on, I actually think it was SP1, or something in one of the updates before SP1.

I have never had a problem with FO1 on my laptop, except for a corrupted copy at one point.
 
I think there's something wrong with you laptop.
Better bring it in for repairs.
 
f1, and f2 worked for me on sp1, sp2... and I didnt do anything. I also make sure I have no backround programs running when I play games because nothings is more annoying than backround programs...

Did your friend have an ati card... the ati drivers sometimes have a problem with the old 8-bit games... or aleast they did with ff7

or it could be because its a dell (self explainitory :silly: )
 
Yeah, I've just fucking lost the ability to play Fallout, both under XP and Dosbox. Pissed off. About to reinstall.
 
I was surprised because I had thought that XP's inablility to install Fallout was more or less a universal; I knew some systems could run it but it had to be shoehorned in with a manual install. It gives no problems, and yes, I think my friend did have an ATI card...
 
I never-evar had a problem with installing and playing Fallout, neither on 98, Me, XP, SP1, or SP2...
On several CPUs and MB.

I think I got it!

What kind of RAM is it? DDR or SDRAM? Because it might be that it works on SDRAM without problems?!
 
I have ddr 400 ram... works fine. If you get the error after you installed the game and run it, its most likely is a video card error...

You can adjust you video card settings with a program called rivatuner but its only for nvidia cards (i think, could be for ati cards too)

There probley a program to adjust ati card setting but I dont know of one...
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
I never-evar had a problem with installing and playing Fallout, neither on 98, Me, XP, SP1, or SP2...
On several CPUs and MB.
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You too? I thought that I was the only one, and I was flamed several times for saying that I was able to get it to run..

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Dark Wyvern
 
I've had more problems running FO2 on Win98SE than any other Microsoft O/S. WinXP Home SP2 seems to be the most stable for me. It will, however, crash every 4-5 hours (yes, I play it that much :crazy:) This is with and without the official patches, no compatibility mode either.

No problems with FO1 either in XP :eek:
 
I have yet to try Fallout 1 since I got XP (considering my friend that borrowed the game who hasn't returned it yet before I even got 98, LOL!) but Fallout 2 ran flawlessly on 95, 98, and XP for me. Of course, all the hub bub is about Fallout 1, since it is technically a DOS game, and we know what XP says about DOS XD
 
I've never had a problem running either game on my eMachines desktop. It's got Xp home edition on it and a three gig processor, so I expected it not to run F1 but it works fine.
 
Hm, I think that's enough "it works" posts. This forum is mostly for "it doesn't work" threads, so locked.
 
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