Greetings NMA fans,
I got bored with FO3, it's no RPG at all and the main quest sucks! However FO3 made me feel a little nostalgic.
I missed all the great perks, karma, sex, jokes, quests, murdering little children and stuff to be honest!
So I thought: 'lets remove the dust from the originals!' and I began to install FO1 & 2 because it has been many many years when I played them especially FO1.
Anyway, FO2 seems to be working fine so far. FO1 crashes randomly, it also happens to FO2 now and then. Saving a lot is the best solution I can come up with. But this doesn't disturb me so much, it happens! I think it has something to do with the computer systems of today running old games or perhaps with windows 7 which I run on my laptop.
My main problem is that FO1 always crashes when I hit the 'toggle active items' red button on the left hand side of the game bar. It also happens when I try to use the keyboard shortcut: 'B'. The only option for me now is to switch weapons in my inventory manualy to avoid this bug.
Maybe I can solve this by running VMware and try FO1 in a windowed version of win95/98. But let me ask you first before I utilise VMware ...
So here are my specs and patch/mods installations:
FO1 patches/mods:
- fallup1w (official patch)
- falloutrevisited (fan made patch, thought I try this one out)
- Fallout1_High_Resolution_Patch (switched it to 16bits in my game options)
Specs:
- OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
- Model: Akoya P8612
- Processor: Duocore CPU T4400 - 2.20GHz
- RAM: 4GB
I turned the compatibility mode in windows options to win98 btw.
I used the same three FO2 patches + the childrens patch for the sequel and until now I encountered no major errors on the second version except for an occasional random crash.
Oh and I have tried a manual reinstal from a FO1 iso file, before you ask and still the same problem occurs. Maybe it has something to do with the patches or mods in relation with my OS. I didn't try to run Fallout without patching yet. I don't know if an iso file can become corrupted over the years. it's an exact copy of the cd-rom. I don't own the originals anymore. But they worked on my old pc and I saved them since on an external backup drive.
I hope this post isn't double I've used the search but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Sorry for my English btw, it's not my native language.
Thank you for your help. Cheers!
I got bored with FO3, it's no RPG at all and the main quest sucks! However FO3 made me feel a little nostalgic.
I missed all the great perks, karma, sex, jokes, quests, murdering little children and stuff to be honest!
So I thought: 'lets remove the dust from the originals!' and I began to install FO1 & 2 because it has been many many years when I played them especially FO1.
Anyway, FO2 seems to be working fine so far. FO1 crashes randomly, it also happens to FO2 now and then. Saving a lot is the best solution I can come up with. But this doesn't disturb me so much, it happens! I think it has something to do with the computer systems of today running old games or perhaps with windows 7 which I run on my laptop.
My main problem is that FO1 always crashes when I hit the 'toggle active items' red button on the left hand side of the game bar. It also happens when I try to use the keyboard shortcut: 'B'. The only option for me now is to switch weapons in my inventory manualy to avoid this bug.
Maybe I can solve this by running VMware and try FO1 in a windowed version of win95/98. But let me ask you first before I utilise VMware ...
So here are my specs and patch/mods installations:
FO1 patches/mods:
- fallup1w (official patch)
- falloutrevisited (fan made patch, thought I try this one out)
- Fallout1_High_Resolution_Patch (switched it to 16bits in my game options)
Specs:
- OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
- Model: Akoya P8612
- Processor: Duocore CPU T4400 - 2.20GHz
- RAM: 4GB
I turned the compatibility mode in windows options to win98 btw.
I used the same three FO2 patches + the childrens patch for the sequel and until now I encountered no major errors on the second version except for an occasional random crash.
Oh and I have tried a manual reinstal from a FO1 iso file, before you ask and still the same problem occurs. Maybe it has something to do with the patches or mods in relation with my OS. I didn't try to run Fallout without patching yet. I don't know if an iso file can become corrupted over the years. it's an exact copy of the cd-rom. I don't own the originals anymore. But they worked on my old pc and I saved them since on an external backup drive.
I hope this post isn't double I've used the search but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Sorry for my English btw, it's not my native language.
Thank you for your help. Cheers!