im trying to get fallout 2 to work on vista, I run the setup on the disk and then my second monitor goes crazy and then it crashes the setup.exe, does fallout 2 have problems in vista?

Ive tried compatability

It works on vista, just a hard time to install it, not sure where to find out how..

nm, found a guide.

http://www.stgfc.com/F2/vistaGuide.php

Thanks i'll have another go, im thinking my CD laser is knackered

no mutants allowed should have a guide too, good site.

I had a hell of a time installing on Vista. For some reason the copy protection on the disc really messes with it, sometimes setup would crash, or it would fail to copy files completely.

If you get the "could not load text/fonts" even when your fallout2.cfg has the correct paths in it, then your master.dat/critter.dat is screwed up. I suppose it's possible for other files to be mangled too, but those are the biggest. Problem is, Vista can't read those files off my CD to copy them manually or create an .iso image either.

Best bet is to install on a non-Vista machine and then copy it over, the game is self-contained in its own folder.

Just installed this yesterday on Vista 64. Worked like a charm.

Hmm. Don't know then, maybe it's my CD drive. I'm on Vista64 as well, but twice ended up with a master.dat that was ~240mb instead of the correct 325mb. Luckily I had an old installed copy from 5 years ago, just yanked the .dat files out of it so I could start clean with the modern patches.

Still, if one computer is tempermental it's worth a shot using a different machine.

Yea I just installed Fallout 2 on Vista 64 bit two days ago, I notice a lot of people do have issues installing but I never did. Stuck the cd in, didn't have to do compatibility mode or anything worked great. I do have newer disks though, I purchased them I believe just a few years ago at Walmart for $10 in the old games spot(Came with Fallout 1 and 2). Sounds like the disk you have is corrupt or scratched or something if its not installing correct file sizes.

My laptop crashes when I try to instal it with XP. WTF could have swore Iv'e done it before.

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