Hello,

I received Fallout from the GOG promo and proceeded to install the 2 patches and the v 3.06 widescreen patch. After getting slowdown issues I renamed ddraw.dll (also deleted, got same result) and while performance is smooth at 1366x768 and 8 colors, I'm getting color issues similar to the person in this post http://www.gog.com/en/forum/fallout_series/fallout_1_color_problems. I tried to switch to both 16 and 32 colors and switching my resolution but it always ends with the screen freezing at the interplay logo and then crashing.

I've read through the forum and have not found anything with my exact issue, I was just wondering if anyone could help me. If it helps, I'm running Windows 7, 64 bit with a resolution of 1366x768. Thank you!

The colour problem appears to be a problem with how recent iterations of Windows handle the 256 colour palatte of games that used DirectDraw.

The simplest solution, as provided by http://blog.macuyiko.com/2009/07/solving-color-problem-red-grass-purple.html is to download a replacement ddraw.dll from http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/

This will redirect the palatte handling from DirectDraw to OpenGL, hopefully fixing the faulty colours.

EDIT: done some testing, and the replaced .DLL does work. The colours are fixed, but you have to change the ddhack.cfg file to contain 'wc3smallvid' instead of 'halfnhalf' for FMVs to display properly.

Thanks for looking into this. Unfortunately, while it does fix the colour issue, it gives me a competely odd view where there are 2.5 windows of the game all stuck on the same screen, I'll attach an image to show it. Any idea how I can fix this?

I didn't have that problem, so I'm not sure what could have happened. I'm using a vanilla copy of the game, so it could be one of the mods causing your problem, or maybe one of the options you used for the ddhack.cfg.

I reccomend installing this:
The Ultimate Fallout Installation
All thanks goes to paul_cz, all I did was change the resolution patch to latest version.
Just install in the displayed order.

Thanks, tried that even and no dice. I guess I'll just play without the widescreen patch, thanks for everyone trying to help anyways.

I'm playing with the same OS and same resolution. Using the FIXT mod from NMA, which includes the res patch, colours are fine. Try using FIXT.

Tried that already as well, didn't work for me. Must be something on my end.

I tried the download suggested by Drelmanes and it worked great. This thread is much more helpful than the official help thread. Thank you for your support, guys.

Sorry, I accidentally marked it as solution. Which bat files? I ran install and 64bit but when I run the 64 bit batch it just gets stuck at the loading screen.

Yeah those were the two I meant. Not sure what's wrong then, sorry :/ If I think of anything new I'll come back.

Just to clarify, you installed FIXT on a clean version of Fallout right? You don't need to install any other patches, not even official ones if you use FIXT (The creator included everything in the installer).

i had color issues aswell, this helped me

f you're using a 64-bit version of Windows (Vista or 7), you may find that the default configuration crashes upon load. You must run the game in DirectX Mode 4. In ddraw.ini in the Fallout 2 program directory, find the [Graphics] section and use this setting:

Mode=4

Hey, just coming in to let people know that it got fixed. I have no idea how, the only difference I made to my regular install of 1.21, 1.3 and widescreen was add the child patch and that seems to have fixed it. Thank you to everybody who helped out in this thread, it's really nice to see how helpful the gog.com community is.

I have some problems with FA1+2. The games start without a problem and they run fine, but it's really, really slow. Then I read, that I can fix the problem by deleting the ddraw.dll file.

It worked and the game runs smoothly but with graphical glitches: The colors are bad and there are some other glitches (videos e.g.).

Then, I tried to use an other ddraw.dll with a ddraw.ini to activate OpenGL (http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/), but with my netbook (Samsung N220, N450 with Intel GMA3150) it did not start.

So I installed the "Ultimate_Fallout_Installation" but after installing everything, Win7 Starter said, that I have to run "falloutw.exe" under Win NT... The compatibility mode did not work... Probably I made a mistake, but I ran the same procedure on my XP-PC and it worked!

Then I tried to change the graphic mode in fallout.cfg (FA2) from Mode=0 to Mode=4 (DirectX9), but this did not solved my problem either.

So, the only way for me is to play the game without graphical glitches but really, really slow or with glitches, but a full speed.

What I want: Playing the games with full speed without glitches. And, if it is possible, in widescreen mode (1024x600, but I think, that this is not a proper ddraw resolution). What else can I do?