haveing a very very weird problem here please help me out

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:40 pm

When you install, do you use WinXP special option to make .exe -flie working as you were using older Windows, like 95 or 98? I used that to install.exe and Fallout.exe, and I think this would solve your problem.
This is how to do it:
To install.exe (or setup.exe, can't check which one it is now):
1) Go to you cd-rom drive (I use D:\ for indicating cd-rom drive)
2) Click install.exe with right mousebutton
3) Select Properties
4) Select Compatibility (or something like that) page
5) In highest dropbox, there should read Windows 95 (or another version) It's not enabled, so you have to check the box just over it.
6) After checking checkbox, select from the droplist the version of WIndows. I used Win 98
7) Accpet the changes and close the window
8)Run the install.exe

After installing, do the same thing to Fallout2.exe before starting it first time. WHen you have done it once, I think you don't need to do it again.

Hope this helps

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:29 pm

compability mode

don;t think that works i installed my fallout under xpmode

kest · Post by **kest** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:13 pm

Da_Venom,yep all my drivers are up to date.

Kipi, Im almost 100% sure i did that method when I pulled all the files off of the disk and onto my hard drive, I tried installing just normaly, then I tried by switching it to run with win 95 and 98. Ill give it another shot but I got somethings to do so not right now, thanks for the suggestion.

.....I can't believe how much this blows LET ME PLAY FALLOUT YOU FEEBLE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:53 am

Another suggestion:
What about if you try to remove all entries from registery that has something to do with Fallout or Interplay AFTER you have played it? Don't uninstall the game, just remove all registery things and try to launch the game.

Also, what about after installing the game and before launching it you check what does those registery entries contain. Write them down, launch the game and shut it down and then check registery again. If there is no changes, then your problem has nothing to do with registery.

Hope these helps you a bit

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:14 am

i wonder if u play fallout2 what processen have you running?

and after you quit then what?

this **** only happends to fallout?

what services have you running?

just gimme that computer so i can work on it

kest · Post by **kest** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:20 am

ha Da-venom trust me if I could id have you come over my house and personaly smack some sense into this thing, Im sure not being able to figure this out is at least 1/10th as annoying to you as it is to me, just because it cant be figured, and trust me Im annoyed to no end those little fallout shortcut icons on my desktop have turned into little guys who mock me when i look at them.....

anyways thanks for all those suggestions I should have a good bit of free time tomorrow so Im going to run through all of them, havnt really had the time the past few days.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:23 am

it is just the applications icons?

can u run falloutfrom directory?

else kick some serius **** in

kest · Post by **kest** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:14 pm

nope not from the directory, start menu, or desktop icon.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:46 pm

hmm one question comes up to mind..since u can play fallout once ;P

is there a variable who checks for it?

kest · Post by **kest** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:05 am

[QUOTE=Da_venom]hmm one question comes up to mind..since u can play fallout once ;P

is there a variable who checks for it?[/QUOTE]

im not 100% sure what you mean by that, sorry.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:43 am

well

when u turn on power u get an 0 and when u turn it off u get an /

is this also when fallouts quit's?

kest · Post by **kest** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:04 am

[QUOTE=Da_venom]well

when u turn on power u get an 0 and when u turn it off u get an /

is this also when fallouts quit's?[/QUOTE]

lol man Im just not getting you on that one. Anyways Sorry for the whole lack of response the past few days I've been real bussie. but tomorrow Im going to dedicate some free time to running though all the tips Ive been given in the past few posts and I hope to god this works.

and if buy "is this also when fallouts quit's?" you mean does it give me something when it automaticaly quits. well, it doesnt automaticly quit or exit or lock up/crash. I have to exit the game though the menu, or ctrl.alt,del then end task it. The game plays once then if it is exited in any way it just ****s the bed.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:38 pm

so on end it quit's 4ever....
saying not a win 32 application

you have updated windows/fallout/drivers and ****?
you got a cheat program running when u play fallout?
spyware or virussen on your computer?

bah

running out of options soon

ah now i remembered what i wanted to ask

if your file system fat32 or NTFS?

kest · Post by **kest** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:40 pm

holy **** I learned my lesson here. I have lagit fallouts but a.... not so legit version of norton. well as it turns out this not so ligit norton is a piece of grabage. I went online and did one of those free virus scans, think it was panda soft, and it picked up a virus that my norton hadnt discovered. think it was w32 jeefo, well what the virus does is infect all of your .exe files and increases them in size by about 32,000kb or something like that. This virus didn effect any other game except the fallout series, well 1&2 at least tactics ran fine. So let this be a lesson to me to not get hacked copies of virus scaning software, or at least use ;agit ones on-line. God damn it I feel like an ******* for wasting peoples time but hey blame it on norton (I always hated norton hence why I didnt have the respect to buy it). So thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Da_venom · Post by **Da_venom** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:38 pm

problem solved