Basically Fallout doesn't take up all the monitor its like a small square in the middle of the screen surrounded by blackness.

Is this normal? Can I make Fallout bigger on screen? Anyone know or point me in the right direction.

Windows desktop fills the screen but Fallout doesn't.

Help!

High Res Patch should fix it
http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout1_Resolution_Patch

Thanks for that had a feeling Res may have been a problem, my gaming computer is old and not connected to the internet If I stick that patch on a memory stick where exactly do I save it to in the HD? I'm not a PC gamer I picked up Fallout 1 2 & Tactics to play I'm usually a console gamer. I know excuse my igorance when it comes to PCs

Unrar in fallout folder. There is an exe file in it, click on the file to install then start up the game and go to optiions -> scrn (somewhere on top of the screen) to fix scrn settings -> restart fallout.

Thanx dude! I tried to load the High Res patch and the laptop I have couldn't read it plus it doesn't have Rar or winzip, its only Windows 2000 pro, I can get it wiped later and replaced with XP on Thursday, I can't even connect the damn thing to the internet, guess I'll get XP put on and try again on Thursday. I was just impatient to get playing Fallout. I was just wondering if I cud make the screen bigger for the game. The game plays ok. Well it'll give me time to read the manual thought I'd give the PC games a blast only played FO3 and BoS PS2.

Just remember that surviving in Fallout 1 actually takes a bit of thought.

I realised that, I'm trying to figure out how to target body parts for specific shots, the manual mentions something about it but where exactly do I click on so I can shoot particular body parts????

Click with the right mouse button on the biiig button in the middle of the lower part of the screen where your selected weapon is. When a bullseye icon appears on the lower right side, you can click on your enemy and take aimed shots.

Why I just figured it out one of the perks or skills I selected has negated the aiming bullseye. I'm near the start of the game I'll restart.

Fast shot isnt that bad. Particularly if you're looking at playing a bust-gunner (SMGs, Assult Rifles, SMGs), but perhaps not right for a first timer.

Thanx for the concern I've played enuff games in my time though, but I understand what your saying, I tried a restart without the Fast Shot Perk and got completely hammered by two radscorpions but with it I've survived ok, it makes a real difference to how many shots per turn I got, I'm gonna stick with it but I still would like the target particular body areas but as I said I got done big style without it. With the fast shot I completed the Radscorpion cave no probs. I'm at the Hub at the moment looking for clues to finding the Water Chip, I think i'll take a caravan guard job as well while I'm here. Any other good stuff I can find in the Hub, jeez I think its the Hub, bad memory, gettin old, or were can I get sum decent power armour near by here or a helmet of some sort?

Some video drivers center low res output... My older Dell Precision laptop does this. There should (might) be an option to scale rather than center in your graphic card's control-panel (if you have one).

(In my case there wasn't one, but I managed to install the Nvidia control panel on the laptop anyway, even though the specific Nvidia graphics card was kind of unsupported ~but it worked; upshot being that games like Fallout and other lower res screens scale to the full size of the monitor).

*IMO Fallout's hi-res patch is awkward and I prefer not to use it; but Planescapes hi-res patch is fantastic :shrug: go figure.

I managed to get it sorted somehow I used the patch but there was also a maximise option in the game properties plus something else in the control panel that allowed me to expand the game to full screen, not the res options though, I'd have to look it up when I get home for the exact details but something worked lol I may check out that other patch, but I'm gonna wipe it tomorrow and stick on XP. Yeah it was in advanced options in Display on the Control Panel that did the trick.