Forum:Fallout trilogy color problems?

Putting this at the top, directions to fix the issue by editing you're ddraw file for fallout 1 & 2

http://www.interplay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=889&sid=51c3e6bcadb0053ea533e4cffcf0e249

--DragonJTSLeave me a message 15:03, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

I bought the Fallout Trilogy months ago from the PX. Downloaded it, and, of course, there's a problem. The colors are messed up. some areas are plagued by these bright green and red. On ALL of the games. Well, I figured, my computer's old and worn out. So I set the disk aside and it gathers dust...

Now fast forward to today. I just got a brand new laptop, absolutely new, nothing on it, clean as a polished marble slab. So I figure, "Hey, maybe that old game will actually work properly..." so I install it, and guess what? F1 and 2 still have the same problem. (although Tactics is working fine, which I don't understand). Any help? I already tried running it on compatibility mode for everything, using 256 colors etc, and neither game seems to want to comply. 19:37, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Is it preowned? If so it's probably broken. Don't buy preowned things. They're rubbish. Tezzla Cannon 19:40, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * No, apart from my brief attempt to make it work with Windows XP, it's completely new. 19:41, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Try making it work with Windows Vista. Tezzla Cannon 19:42, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't have Vista, I have Windows 7. 19:44, September 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hold on Tezzla, I know how to fix the problem, so Kris doesn't need to be bothered about it. - Ghouly89 (Talk) 19:52, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Get Vista. It might work.

Also kris is here he's a PC tech why don't you ask him? Tezzla Cannon 19:48, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll ask Kris. 19:50, September 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yuri, there is already a bunch of information about this problem. Hundreds of other people have already gone asking about it to NMA, so just look around there. - Ghouly89 (Talk) 19:53, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

It might take a while, but you could try using Linux and WINE to run it in a Windows 95 shell. Of course, this is a completely round-about way of getting things to work. Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 both have platinum ratings in the WINE applications database, so they should work in WINE. MFToast - talk 17:23, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

(Ok this work for all most old games but i am going to exemplecate with Fallout 2

Create a Notepad new docomente and copy

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe fallout2.exe pause start explorer.exe

Save as: fallout2.bat as all files on your fallout 2 directory. Before start the bat you must close the internet explore. ADVISE: Create a shourtcut of the bat tho your Decktop. Plese if this work on you send a email to qwelas@gmail.com Post by Qwelas)

I also had this from time to time, sometimes the game just went like that in random but most of the time the colors were right. The problem most likely tranlates to you actually having a way too NEW computer. FO1 and 2 run 256 color mode and some modern video cards can't handle it right, thus displaying the game like some magical rainbow land. Try setting the exe's Combatibility to Windows 95 and Run in 265 colors, Disable visual themes might help too. Then of course, you could do the HC thing and get an old DOS machine and play them with it. Or you know, DOSBox. - CRIMINAL SCUM 05:31, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

Fallout's distorted color problem already has a definitive fix.

For computer running Vista or Windows 7, there is a program called the DirectDraw compatibility tool that allows the use of Fallout's 229-color palette through DirectDraw, a program that had applications communicate directly with the graphics card. This was before DirectX became a common graphics engine. - Ghouly89 (Talk) 00:19, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

I have had the same problem before Deathclawpoop 15:26, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

i got this problem, u should see my forum topic 'Fallout 2 killed my PC' http://fallout.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Fallout_2_has_killed_my_pc!&t=20101121143513 Archer3

You don't need the compatibility tool for a fix. http://www.interplay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=889&sid=51c3e6bcadb0053ea533e4cffcf0e249 Also, telling people to leave the large discussion about a problem to view your 1 post isn't too helpful. --DragonJTSLeave me a message 15:03, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

uhm...im trying to help by saying im not the only sufferer and if u read my page u would notice it actually was more serious than this and is more HELPING people than you think...read before you type next time Archer3 16:24, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Oh dang, I had the same problem with my Fallout 1 when the colors went all funky like the backgrounds in the talking head moments and the game world. When i find my Fallout 1 I'll give that program a try. --Mastererium 11:16, December 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * @DragonJTS I believe this user-created program is much more useful than a link to an Interplay forum that only describes ways to toggle settings with sfall. Sfall was originally a user-created modification for Fallout which was userped by Interplay, and included by default in all the recent box-sets of the Fallout Trilogy. This program directly patches the fallout/fallout 2 executables and automatically changes some sfall settings described by your linked troubleshooting thread. It should work for most peoples' problems with color corruption without having someone with less experience in computers having to dig through compatability settings.


 * Also, what isn't helpful is downplaying someone's attempt at helping. And, for doubly-ironic purposes, I would like to point out that you directed this "large discussion" away to another forum completely, as well as I did. -- Ghouly89 (Talk) 22:53, December 11, 2010 (UTC)