Duck and Cover

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

so you did what many people cant do.

I wuv my computer.

i dont i hate that piece of crap.

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.

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.

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

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

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).