Look, I'm a complete plank when it comes to computers. I bought the Fallout "Trilogy" and installed Fallout today. But the colours were all, like weird. Psychedelic or some such. I tried downloading some patch but, as I say, I'm a moron with computers and couldn't work the thing. The game runs really smoothly, it's just the colours are buggered.

I'm sorry if I sound like a [censored] and not giving enough detail, or whatever, but I'd really like to play the game.

Sometimes the easiest solution (when it works) is to hit Alt+Tab to switch back into windows and then from there clicking back into the game, while it's running. Generally, this can reset the graphics and get them back to normal again. This tends to be a rather common bug (and one that I even remember dealing with when it first came out, as well.) I do believe there are other, more permanent fixes, but the above is the only one that I can remember, off-hand.

Sometimes you have Alt+Tab back and forth a couple of times before it works, though.

http://www.interplay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=889&sid=51c3e6bcadb0053ea533e4cffcf0e249 you could also change the mode to 5 for fullscreen.

I really didn't understand a word of that :sadvaultboy:

Edit: I opened notepad but couldn't find the file that was edited in the link

And yes, I tried the alt tab thing but it didn't work. A new problem is these blackouts. They used to only happen like every ten minutes or so, but now they're happening every twenty seconds.

Damn, I wish I was good on computers.

You should try getting this: http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/dload.php?action=file&file_id=1273
The instructions Mako gave you are for that.

I downloaded the patch, but nothing happens. When I click into it it says something about not being in the same Fallout.exe?

WWhat I do is set the background to a solid colour and then open and keep the Screen Resolution window, from the personalise section, open. Just go to the desktop and have that window up and minimise everything else and play the game. Odd I know but it made Fallout 2 actually playable on 7 without mad pixel colours everywhere,

To use it you have to have the game patched up to a certain point. That site can also provide you with said patches.

Just look for the ddraw.ini file in your Steam/steamapps/common/fallout folder and you can change it there. It's pretty self explanatory once you open the file.