mannawyadden
It Wandered In From the Wastes
I'm making this post to help anyone in the present or future who runs into a problem with Fallout 1 or 2 displaying in pixelated black and white or monochrome.
Last night I ran into a huge display problem in Fallout 1, on a PC that previously ran it no problem. I use Windows 7 64 bit, NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card. I don't use SFall, the high resolution patch, or any mods.
What I saw was similar to the well known "rainbow color" glitch (traditionally fixed by terminating explorer.exe temporarily). But this time, it made the game display corrupt, highly pixelated, and in black and white, like an old tube TV on a static channel. It resisted all the fixes that normally work on the rainbow color glitch.
I tested it on a different machine and the same thing happened. I fixed the problem by using Display Driver Uninstaller and then downloading an older version of NVIDIA's GeForce Game-ready Driver: version 456.71, dated October 7, 2020.
I can confirm that the GeForce Version 471.11 dated June 22, 2021, and Version 466.77, dated June 10, 2021, do not work with Fallout 1. I don't know exactly which version of the driver broke the game, which graphics cards may be affected, or if and when it will be fixed.
I believe that versions with SFall or versions using the high resolution patch are unaffected by the display driver bug. I can confirm that the latest GOG.com version is unaffected by the bug as well. So most users running the game on modern PCs are likely unaffected...but if you have an NVIDIA card with the latest drivers (as of the time of this post, July 2021) and you're using the original game CDs, you may run into this problem.
Last night I ran into a huge display problem in Fallout 1, on a PC that previously ran it no problem. I use Windows 7 64 bit, NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card. I don't use SFall, the high resolution patch, or any mods.
What I saw was similar to the well known "rainbow color" glitch (traditionally fixed by terminating explorer.exe temporarily). But this time, it made the game display corrupt, highly pixelated, and in black and white, like an old tube TV on a static channel. It resisted all the fixes that normally work on the rainbow color glitch.
I tested it on a different machine and the same thing happened. I fixed the problem by using Display Driver Uninstaller and then downloading an older version of NVIDIA's GeForce Game-ready Driver: version 456.71, dated October 7, 2020.
I can confirm that the GeForce Version 471.11 dated June 22, 2021, and Version 466.77, dated June 10, 2021, do not work with Fallout 1. I don't know exactly which version of the driver broke the game, which graphics cards may be affected, or if and when it will be fixed.
I believe that versions with SFall or versions using the high resolution patch are unaffected by the display driver bug. I can confirm that the latest GOG.com version is unaffected by the bug as well. So most users running the game on modern PCs are likely unaffected...but if you have an NVIDIA card with the latest drivers (as of the time of this post, July 2021) and you're using the original game CDs, you may run into this problem.