It doesn't matter which computer you're running DOSBox on but install your game within DOSBox and run it within DOSBox.
Yep, installing and running in the same environment is the best way to ensure that everything works correctly in the end. Also, make sure you do a full install so that it looks for all of the data files on the hard drive rather than the CD-ROM. I believe Fallout is one of those games that doesn't look for the CD if you've done a full install.
Did Interplay release DOS versions of all of the Windows patches? The Fallout games are quite buggy, so you'll want to patch them.
Well I tried installing the DOS version of FO in Win 7 using DOSBox like you suggested but when the FO install came up it did not recognize any drive at alll. Maybe I did something wrong so I'lltry again.
You have to mount an empty folder on your hard drive as a virtual C:\ drive and also mount the Fallout CD as a virtual D:\ drive at the same time. Try carefully following the guide that was linked earlier.
lost cause, how can we help if you don't follow the help?
Thank you for our patience I finally got it installed taking a bit of info from here & there. It runs ok using DOSBOX now. But I have another question.
Can I just apply the 1.1 patch normally or do I have to access it & apply it through DOSBox?
Don't ever perform any such operations outside DOSBox since you only mess
up your paths and configuration files of the game.
Probably not worth all this fuss. Better things to do than waste time trying to play old games. I ain't gonna spend no time trying to apply a patch by way of dosbox. Nuts to it...
Why?. Patch is applied very fast and fixes a lot of scripting things among other things.
wrote:Probably not worth all this fuss. Better things to do than waste time trying to play old games. I ain't gonna spend no time trying to apply a patch by way of dosbox. Nuts to it...
Especially when you should be running the Windows version of the game anyway.
The game is ridiculously buggy. I can't believe anyone would try to play it without patching first.
Are you still taking him seriously? Let's recap.
Now that he has it working he no longer wants to "waste time trying to play old games". What is there to patch if he's not going to play it?
I've done my good deed for the day 😜
Sorry for being such a grumpy old man - but guess I'm not the only grump around here. I did install it, didn't I? You tell me the patch is easy to install. I guess I'm itred of looking around trying to figure out how to do things. Been doing that for 15 years on the Net - put my own site mostly on a self-taught basis researching things on the Net. I have enjoyed the FO series I guess more than most any other games & was put off seeing how weird the colors in the Window version on Win 7 looks.
So I ask apologetically (you've all been most kind actually - & patient) is there a link you can point me to that tells how to install the patch?
in whatever system you have Fallout working you just execute the patch... in your 15 years on the net you should have come upon game patches before...
In a previous post I asked if I could install the patch as I usually do or do I have to go through DB. A reply told me I should go through DB. Now are you telling me Dominus that I can just install the patch w/o going through DB?
no. if you have Fallout working in Dosbox, install the patch through Dosbox, if you have it working in Windows install it through Windows...
Either way is really easy. on Windows you doubleclick the file, in dosbox you type the filename and hit enter (if it is in your mounted c root)....
Either way you first have to "Copy the file FALL11.ZIP into the directory that Fallout is installed to."
whatever... you will have to figure it out or play a buggy game. or don't...
I don't know how you 're gonna unzip the patch througbh DB.
