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Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2002 7:09 am**

I just finished the game again, my first time with Windows XP, and the endings were all cut short! Is this an XP thing? Anyone else suffering from this problem?

Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:20 am**

it happened to me once with XP also, but i had just saved after killing Horrigan, so i reloaded and ran out, and it worked fine.

Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2002 11:57 am**

You can turn subtitles on in Preferences and read the endings if all else fails.

Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2002 11:59 am**

*sound of forehead sbeing slapped*

I kept attributing this problem to video cards... but it's probably sound card related, duh...

Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2002 4:04 pm**

Maybe the newer sound cards can't handle it? I haven't tested it on my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, but it worked all fine on SB16 and SB128PCI...

Posted: **Sun Jul 21, 2002 2:24 am**

I have a sound card i've never heard about (ocean something) and the endings did just fine to me...

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:48 am**

It's not an XP thing. I've finished both Fallouts a couple of times with XP and this never happened to me.

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2002 7:34 am**

Same thing just happened to me... on ALL my save games... possibly because I deleted FO2 and then loaded my v1.2 saves on an unpatched version?

Another weird thing: Ever since it started doing this, the ingame music will stutter/screw up... anyone have any ideas?

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2002 7:49 am**

Well, I patched before I started that game, so that wasn't it. I also have an SB512 PCI, so that's probably not it, either. It could be the GeForce2, but this was the last straw for XP. I put Win98SE back on two nights ago and no problems since.

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2002 4:49 pm**

Hmm, I hear Win XP has some probs with other components. Could be your Geforce 2. I had troubles getting GTA3 to work because of the XP + GF3 combo. I suggest you update your XP.

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2002 9:59 pm**

Or, much rather like update your drivers...

Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:19 am**

Not even a question for me, I DL and test everything I can that applies to my hardware.

Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2002 10:22 pm**

I had the GTA3 problem too, I've updated that crappy OS... When it was still on my PC, I went to Windows Update almost every other day. GTA3 also hooked me up with some spectial GeForce 2 patches, but I think Windows Update replaced them more recently.

Like I said, I'm back to Win98SE, trying to figure out what to do with all the memory I can't use!

Posted: **Fri Aug 16, 2002 11:21 pm**

Windows XP is notorious for screwing up a few (or many) games. I haven't had a problem with any Fallout games, but there are many games that seem not to work in XP, on my computer anyway.

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