Fallout 1 in windowed mode

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I did a google search for this, and found a link to a NMA news archive section, but it says "cannot be found" ... I understand that some of the older news archives have been lost. Bummer. :cry:

So I thought I'd ask again here, see if anyone knows or remembers. Is it possible to play Fallout in windowed mode, instead of fullscreen?

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition, with latest patches and the service pack, etc. installed.
 
Heh, thanks for the help. The reason I'd like to be able to do this is because the game is very very dark. I've raised the brightness in-game, and on my monitor, and the gamma on my graphics adapter (integrated VIA chip) as high as they will go.. and if I'm in a place like The Glow, or if it's night-time, I can't see where my characters are going.

So the game is ignoring the settings for my graphics adapter. I thought playing it in windowed mode would fix that.

Oh yea, I've also updated all my drivers and I'm running DirectX 9.0a
 
Okay, darkness problem solved! :D
Used a little program called powerstrip to adjust the brightness, and it works great, in case anyone wants to know.
 
Todo said:
Anyone who has ever played CS has propably heard of powerstrip. :roll: dumdidumdedaa...
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Make that "played CS for long with a dark screen". I haven't played CS for long and I never had any lighting problems with it either.

I noticed that modern screens tend to be a lot darker than back then, tho.
 
Todo said:
Anyone who has ever played CS has propably heard of powerstrip. :roll: dumdidumdedaa...
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Fair enough. I never played CS, never had any brightness issues with other games, Powerstrip was a "new" one for me.
 
To answer the original question: No, no one has ever found a way to get Fallout 1 or 2 to run in windowed mode.
 
Todo said:
Anyone who has ever played CS has propably heard of powerstrip. :roll: dumdidumdedaa...
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I've played CS for 5 years and never had a darkness problem.

Most of the time thats because of integrated video/crappy monitors that use "shadow-mask" to lower pixel corruption. (it happens on LCDs, that the pixel besides the font turns a mix of both, background and font color.)

Also, you can't play the Fallouts windowed. (i dont know about FoT)

cuz
peeps
 
Well, turns out there is a way to play Fallout windowed:

falloutwindow.jpg


Not the ideal solution, but if you really want to play it that way......
 
So, Microsoft gives a 45-day free trial on Virtual PC 2004... So I figured I'd give this a shot. However, every time I click on the "Install" button from the Fallout 2 CD menu, the screen goes blue and the task manager inside the virtual PC shows CPU usage at 100%... anyone familiar with this, and/or know what's going on? Help?

Edit: after looking at the Install menus in my regular machine, I was able to pull off the Humongous Installation, and it's all good in the Virtual PC. However, when I start up the game, the loading placeholder before the interplay logo doesn't show up. The Interplay logo, the intro movie, and the story slideshow movie DO work, but when it cuts to the main title screen, I get a green screen with black bars on the top and bottom. Weird. Anyone know what's up?
 
For those of you who care, and have a Win98 install CD and Virtual PC, you can play Fallout 2 in a window. Been doin that for a week or so now and it's fun, yay for multitasking. 100% Processor usage on an AMD 64 3500+ Winchester, though, so beware.
 
Evil-Rage said:
For those of you who care, and have a Win98 install CD and Virtual PC, you can play Fallout 2 in a window.
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Er, isn't this information contained in Montez' last post?
 
Per said:
Er, isn't this information contained in Montez' last post?
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He doesnt' specify what OS is running in Virtual PC. I installed Fallout 2 in Win2K, WinXP, and finally Win98 before I could get it working proeprly. Don't know if the problem is limited to my machine, but I figure since that's the only way it works for me, I should be specific about it.
 
When running Fallout or Fallout 2, the game used to load on a 640 x 480 screen that was shrunk in the middle of my display. Not exactly windowed mode as the entire screen was in-game but everything outside the 640 x 480 grid was inaccessible. For some reason, when I loaded them recently, the game automatically stretched to fullscreen. I right clicked the .exe properties and checked the "Run on 640 x 480" box but it refused to revert to the original setting. Running this on a widescreen laptop, the result is an ugly, stretched game. Does anyone have an idea on how this can be solved?

I tried the above program but it really screwed up the colour pallette. Help is much appreciated.
 
Reading the stickies and announcements is likewise appreciated.

And people wonder why we get gruff when they post AFTER they neglect to read the thread "READ BEFORE YOU POST" at the top of the forum.
 
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