i just bought fallout trilogy for my laptop and im experienceing the rainbow glitch on the movies. ive tired the the properties and change the compatiblity, tried 256 colors, and selecting all the options. ive heard about editing the DDraw.ini file under notebook and i want to try it put i cant find the file. i uncheck the properties to not make it a read-only file and i have full control of the security. Can some1 please tell me where this file is located. (oh forgot to mention its on windows 7 enterprise) its only doing this on fallout and fallout 2

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I know this topic is old. But I felt like I needed to help. This problem annoyed me too.
I found this very easy solution while searching for and age of empires 2 color fix.
Make a .bat file in notepad and paste this into it:

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
falloutw.exe
Start explorer.exe

Save the .bat file into the directory where falloutw.exe is located. Crete a shortcut if you don't want to repeatedl go to program files every time you want to play.

Basically it disables windows explorer while playing so the palette doesn't get screwed up. Windows explorer starts back up when you quit the game.
You only have to click on the .bat file and you're good to go!

This also works with any other games with color problems. Just replace the "falloutw.exe" with the .exe of you choice, and put it in the said game's category.

BTW, i am using windows 7. I'm not sure if this works in vista, etc. but if it doesn't, just create you own .bat that kills windows explorer.

Optionally, you can kill windows explorer through the task manager.

You should send him a PM just in case, that way he will get an e-mail reminder of sorts.