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    Fallout

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Sep 30, 1997

    A critically acclaimed role-playing game developed by Black Isle Studios and Tim Cain in 1997, Fallout established itself as a prominent post-apocalyptic universe with a dark sense of humor.

    Fallout and playing old games on fancy new computers.

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    #1  Edited By mikemcn

    Seeing as I have a quad core computer, Windows Vista, a 1920 by 1080 monitor and this is a game from the mid 90's, Im kinda having crazy issues with trying to make Fallout work. The screen goes black sometimes and when i move my cursor the screen begins to reappear but only in the area of my cursor.  Theres a post about color issues on vista for this game but im not sure thats what im having issues with so I don't know if thats what I need to try and fix
     
    So im wondering what I'm supposed to do. I think I need DOSbox to throttle my CPU, but I'd like to be sure thats what I need to get. If anyone could tell me what to do, i'd love some help.    
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    #2  Edited By Tasus

    Some old games cant run on newer systems, so yeah, DOSBox would be my guess.

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    #3  Edited By gexecuter

     Fallout runs fine without DOSBOX, at least on the Windows XP machine i have. Have you tried the gog version? those guys do some stuff to make old games playable on modern systems.

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    #4  Edited By Fallen189

    Run it in compatability mode, with 256 colours, or look for a fan patch.

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    #5  Edited By tmthomsen
    @gexecuter said:
    "  Fallout runs fine without DOSBOX, at least on the Windows XP machine i have. Have you tried the gog version? those guys do some stuff to make old games playable on modern systems. "
    GoG.com games are emulated through DOSBOX.
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    #6  Edited By ectoplasma

    I bought mine on GOG and it runs fine. With old games like these its much less of an hassle if you just buy a version from steam or GOG instead of downloading it / getting our dusty old cd out of the drawer.

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    #7  Edited By Tennmuerti

    I would dual boot WinXP.
    But that's just me.

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