I plan on buying Fallout 2 from Interplay's website, but I need to know if it will run on my computer first. I'm not very tech savvy, so if anyone could tell me whether or not it will work I'd greatly appreciate it.

Fallout 2 System Requirements:

?Windows ®r 95/98 CD-ROM
?Pentium ™ 90 or faster
?16 MB RAM
?30 MB available hard drive space
?Direct X certified SCGA card
?Direct X certified sound card
?4X or faster CD-ROM drive
?Windows ® 95/98/NT SP3 Only
?100% Microsoft-compatible mouse

My Computer's Specs:

System - Microsoft Windows XP

Version 2002

AMD Sempron™ Processor
3300+

2.00GHz

1.00 GB of RAM



Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card

DirectX 9.0c


Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

Basic rule of thumb, if you're on a PC and you can display this forum, your PC will run fallout and Fallout 2. I see no reason why it wouldnt work on your system.

It's about decade old game that was bit out dated when it came out, it had memory leaking bug, so load times were long on even state of art gaming computers back in the day. AMD type names on 64-bit processors is basically equivalent 32-bit clock frequency. Your 3300MHz processor is faster than 90MHz and 1024MB of RAM is more than 16MB. Your computer will run it fine, it actually creates problems due to how fast your computer is, world travel speed was limited basically by CPU speed, it will be so fast that movement happens in instant and you will never have random encounters. You should get fix for that, you will find fan made patches on that and plenty of other issues on site called No Mutants Allowed.

I recommend can recommend to get trilogy collection that has first game and tactics as well. First game already has that processor speed issue fixed on version that is in collection.

Thanks for the help, but now I have another question. If I download Fallout Trilogy Collection will the patch from NMA to fix the issue with Fallout 2 still work?

There is patch for Fallout 2 that has bug corrections. Then there is Fallout 2 restoration project, that is mod that adds tons of stuff that was already in the games data files, but was not implemented on game due to bugs. It also adds content that was planned but not included in game. Problem with Restoration project is that it got new version this month and it's kinda unstable at the moment. Version of Fallout 2 that is on the trilogy is release, it includes last official patch.

Here is link for unofficial patch by killap:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/dload.php?action=file&file_id=704

Here is link to thread on NMA about Restoration Project 2.0, with links to files and few quick fixes on it's bugs:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54328

Here is links to fallout mods wiki about RP:
http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Killap%27s_Fallout_2_Restoration_Project
http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/F2RP_Technical_Info

Last wiki link has list of bugs still on mod, but it says that 2.1 patch is on the way fix plenty of those.

Once again, thank you for all your help with this. I'll be sure to look into the FO2 Restoration mod. Now all I have to do is hope that the download goes off without a hitch.

A cake for you, good sir. :cake: