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Did you try methods in [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/fallout-1-2-and-tactics-37/technical-problems-with-fallout-2-check-here-67053.html"]this[/url] thread?

And, what I've gathered, the DVD version is a bit flawed, especially the Fallout 2 -part...

How i fixed this annoying problem.

Hey I had this problem and it was very irritating... I couldnt even complete the humungous installation as it said that it couldn't write the "master.dat" file. I explored the cd and discovered that the master.dat file and critters.dat file were read only and couldnt be changed... so I had to manually copy the entire contents of the cd to my computer... then run the setup again (choosing the directory where i had already copied all the files to) chose the smallest installation and voila! it created all the registry files and shortcuts i needed in about 2 seconds! got round the nasty "master.dat" error wonderfully... i hope this is useful to some people as fallout is so freakin great! gotta share the love

p.s. if you wanna use the patch then do as instructed above, then install the patch and then do the SMALL setup again... from my experience doing the huge install overwrites the master.dat and critter.dat files with copies of no size...i.e. says they are 0kb in size

The Fallout 2 worked!!!

The fallout 2 (eng) freezes "please Stand By". But some how it worked fine now and I can play the whole game without a problem! However, I have absolutely no idea what I did. But if you wanna know what I did, here are my attempts:

My OS is win XP english Home edition SP2, AMD single CPU.
Default Minimal installation i.e. C rogram files....
Installed 1.2 official Patch and 1.5 unofficial patch
Restarted PC many times
Tried in Safe mode, but only after intro movies, the screen goes fuzzy pattern and freezes.
Use Microsoft visual PC to install windows 98 under winxp
Install fallout 2 in visual win98, but unplayable.
Then PC crashed many times during visual PC running (quite annoying)
Then when I try to play fallout under winXP. it just worked, can't believe it!!!
And then I try to install fallout 1, it worked aswell.
And then I reinstall fallout 2 with no patch at all. They all just worked perfectly???
No compatibility used.
no full installation (I copyed cd into a image)

Hope my messy info can be helpful.

In response to the font load problem

On my install (F1/F2/FT white label 3-pack), I ran into the "fonts not found" issue. Here was my solution:

I did the Large install and noticed that "master.dat" was an empty folder, while "master.dat" on the game DVD was a 300-odd MB file. I deleted the folder, copied the file from the DVD, made sure it wasn't read-only, and started the game. No problem!