I just downloaded and installed the original Fallout game for free. I also patched it to the 1.1 version. I fixed the problem of the weird colors by killing explorer.exe while playing the game. The only problem I have now is that the screen turns black pretty often, randomly it seems. I can fix this by using ALT+Tab and then going back to Fallout, but it's annoying to do this all the time. I tried running the game in compatibility mode but this doesn't work. I'm running the game on Windows 7. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks!