Time Limits?

Barfly · Post by **Barfly** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 5:48 am

Hey! Glad to see some of the folks that hung out near the Gamespy forums. And boy, I've missed out! Lionheart?

Is there any time limit like in*hic*Fallout 1?

I've been...

jerman999 · Post by **jerman999** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 8:33 am

What do you mean? There is no limit, like for the water chip.

Barfly · Post by **Barfly** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 9:16 am

Can you just go out and adventure for 300 years? heh.

Ezechial_Rage · Post by **Ezechial_Rage** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 11:07 am

Actually there is a time limit for the game, but I think it's for like three years or somewhere around there. If you don't save your tribe by that amount of time their crops are supposed to die out and arroyo turns to null. One time I dawdled for an extremely large amount of time looking for special encounters and such and the game just ended like I died after I hit a world map.

This is Gonna Hurt · Post by **This is Gonna Hurt** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:32 pm

There's a hard-coded time limit of 13 years into both fallout games, if I recall right.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 3:52 am

Time limit is 500 days in Fallout and 13 years in Fallout 2.

Red · Post by **Red** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 8:36 am

the 500 day limit was removed in the patch (with the 13year replacing it)...

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 5:09 am

really? so then you could dawdle around for a long time in FO1?

i wouldnt know because my game always gets messed up when i patch it. i need a FAT partition, this NTFS stuff doesnt work with the origional fallout.

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:03 am

NTFS shouldn't interfere with Fallout really, but I never actually tried it...

I left everything in FAT(32) on my XP box... NTFS is nice for security (and has some neat feature like hard links which about no application supports anyways), but these extra features cost speed.

On the other side though you never have to defrag your NTFS partition(s) while you still need to on FAT32. So if you never defrag it, NTFS ends up faster then FAT32... But defraging it every now and then and it'll be faster.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 7:07 am

the only reason that it doesnt work on NTFS is that you need to manually install it (ie, copy the files and make the CFG) because the install/setup program doesnt recognize NTFS(it says i have only 6mb when i have 2gigs)
so, when i copy the files, the patch does not really patch correctly, or something. in any case, the patch made my game worse, but no matter, ill just dig around for a spare hard-drive that has FAT32, i'm pretty sure i have one somewhere...

Red · Post by **Red** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 8:14 am

Actually I've had that problem on NT regardless of it being NTFS or FAT (since I had the problem with FAT..) This problem isn't because of NTFS/FAT but because the installation program allocated too small a unit (a long instead of a long long... well, in the win32 api it's really 2 longs rather then a long long but that's another story). If they used a signed long, the maximum limit is 2gigs... after that it goes to negatives for 2 more gigs and then returns to 0 (at 4gigs) and so on...

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 8:16 am

Well now, this is weird because I'm palying Fallout 2 right now and I installed it on my Win XP/NTFS machine with no problems or unusual events at all. Even the autorun worked.

Barfly · Post by **Barfly** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 8:17 am

so you did what many people cant do.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 8:19 am

I wuv my computer.

Barfly · Post by **Barfly** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 9:05 am

i dont i hate that piece of crap.

Pastorius · Post by **Pastorius** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 11:05 am

My 'puter's autorun stopped functioning for no reason. Not even a registry patch can restore it. I wonder what the hell is wrong with this piece of crap? :mad: Ah, well... It's not THAT important.

Red · Post by **Red** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 9:00 pm

Try to find PowerToys' TweakUI. The one for XP includes Autoplay settings (under the My Computer tab). I don't recall if the earlyer versions (ie: the one for 9x/ME/2000 w/ desktop enhancements) supported that function though.

Pastorius · Post by **Pastorius** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 2:46 am

Thanks, Red. I'll look for them. I've Windows XP (but I still wonder if I should consider myself lucky for that...)

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Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 9:36 am

fallout2 installs fine and plays fine on my win2k comp. but fallout1 is the one with problems.
the I-play tech support guy said i should try it on a FAT partition and it would work

Red · Post by **Red** » Sat Nov 23, 2002 10:34 am

The tech support guy is full of shit.

Do the install manually, it's highlighte how to do it on Fallout's website in the FAQ section (installing it on NT).