hi all, i'm playing fallout 1 on gametap and enjoying it immensely, however every now and then (like, every minute) the screen goes black and doesn't come back until I move the mouse. it's very annoying obviously. is there any way to fix it? i'm on windows xp. thanks

From my experience, this usually happens when some other application does some action in the background.

For example, yesterday I played Fallout 1, and at the same time I was downloading something from rapidshare via rapget.The moment rapget finished downloading that file, my screen went black because rapget tried to show some message like "file has been downloaded" or something.

So I quit game, exit rapget and all unnecesarry background applications and I haven't had a black screen ever since.

Actually, the Fallout from GOG works extremely well, without a single crash or bug or anything.

I am using this setup, I wrote it in FAQ at gog.com forums:

The procedure goes as following:

1) Install Fallout 1 from GOG.com
2) Find and install "Fallout_1_TeamX_Patch_ENG_1.2w" (either via nma or just google)
3) Install "f1child_patch" (again, nma)
4) Install "fallup13" - this is the TeamX patch 1.3.4 (nma)
5) Install "f1npcmod" from TeamX (again, nma)
6) Install "sfall1" (from http://timeslip.chorrol.com/sfall.html)
7) Install "Fallout1_High_Resolution_Patch_v1.3" (nma)
8) Open f1_res and set AUTO_SCRN_SIZE = 0, then your desired resolution (I use 800*600, anything above is just too darn small for my taste), then if you want, change the way ingame movies work, either fullscreen or not....up to you.Same with movie subtitles.


Run the game and enjoy it in all of its patched glory, WITH KILLABLE KIDS (not that I ever kill them, but the option is here), with better NPC interaction (armors, levelling..), with tweaks like mousewheel in the inventory etc, in higher resolution...

paul thanks for the advice, I closed every background application before starting the game and so far so good the black outs still happen once in a while but not every minute like before. it's actually playable now. thanks again

Glad I could help.

Enjoy my favourite game of all time!

And if you really like it, I encourage you to buy it on gog.com (no, I have no relations to them whatsoever), the money will go to interplay = creators of Fallout 1 and 2 : ).