hello i recently bought the fallout series and none of them work ive tried fallout 1 with vista fallout 2 with xp vista and 98 fallout tactics with vista and xp and none of them work. does anybody have a solution

ps. im mainly trying to get fallout 2 working

Well, "not working" is kind of too general a description to really have any real idea of what might be causing you problems.

The most common complaint about the old trilogy is that often you might see distorted/ "psychedelic" colors, so maybe that's what you're talking about? If that's the case, then hitting alt-tab to your desktop and then switching back into the game a couple of times usually refreshes your graphics, and should clear it up.

Otherwise, you're going to have to be a bit more descriptive about what problems you're having for anyone to offer much of a solution.

I've encountered plenty of installation issues with the older titles, mainly when trying to install on comps that only run Win 2000 or very new operating systems...
But like nuke said: We need more info....

ok with vista it always says insert disc 2 with xp and 2000 it says no disc inserted

Win 2000 doesn't have compatibility mode that is needed for the games to install...

I don't have the link in front of me, but a quick google search: windows 2000 compatibility mode, should garner the info... You need to activate the mode through a run command. Even once I had done this, the mode is only available for shortcuts on installed software. This required me going through individual files on the disc (setup, install, fallout), until my computer got a beauty blue screen. This was not a crash however, and simply moving my mouse 'wiped' clean the install screen. Then you should be able to activate win 98 on that desktop shortcut.
Hope this helps....