when i started fallout and fallout 2, there was a strange rainbow discoloring. how do i get rid of it?

What's discolored?

Change the resolution?
Run in compatibility mode?

I get this too. It doesn't cover the whole screen or anything, it's just in certain places, and it's multicolored like a rainbow, right? Almost like shadows, or around the edges of things. The only way I can get rid of it is to exit the game and then reload it. Sometimes it takes quite a few tries until the rainbow stuff disappears, but I always eventually get it to work. Sometimes switching HOW I load it seems to make a difference, like going into the program and loading the .exe instead of my desktop shortcut, but it may just be my imagination. At times I've gone so far as turning my computer off, then turning it on again. The good news is that once the game has loaded correctly, it stays correct. Just be patient about it, the games are worth it.

Did you get the recent trilogy pack? That's what I have. Happens with Fallout 1+2, but has never happened with Tactics.

Yeah, I bought the trilogy, for a whooping $4. It comes with fallout high resolution and that works fine. It's just fallout 2 since it doesn't have the high resolution version on the disk.

How can you tell if you have the high resolution version? Maybe that's what's wrong with my Fallout 1, because they both do it on mine. Have you got yours to work yet?

Doesn't always work, but 90% of the time what proves a quick fix for me is alt-tabbing back to desktop and then clicking back into the game file (sometimes takes a couple tries.) This tends to refresh your drivers a bit, and will usually clear things up.

That was the ticket for me, only took two tries. Much better than my solution. Thanks! :tops:

I've occassionally had to "wipe" the game screen clean with my mouse cursor. Sometimes it loads up with rainbow colors on the edges of monitor and blue or blac solid across the rest of the screen. Running the cursor around clears most of it, alt-tabbing the rest.

I had the same problem, and I'm running Windows 7. The atl-tabbing didn't work for me, but I read somewhere a trick that actually works. If you are indeed running Windows 7, you change your background to a solid colour, through the Personalize option on the desktop, save it, then open the "Screen resolution" window. Keep this window open, and play the game. I have no idea why the hell such a weird method works, but it does. Anyway, if the alt-tabbing doesn't work for you, I'd recommend this.

it works best to go to screen resolution, advanced setting, then click the monitor tab. but yea that works