Duck and Cover

Hi, I have this problem in FO 1 and 2, Im using Windows XP. In certain movies the playback will quit abruptly after it started (like i pressed a key). This happens in the death movie and the ending movies. I remember this was related to the Indeo codec, but I cant remember. Can anyone help? I dont really want to install Win98 just to play FO.

Try running them in compatability mode. Be sure to disable visual themes.

A quick fix is to get a movie encoded with the indeo codec and play it online
It should download the correct codec and is worth a shot

I am having the same problem playing FO1 in windows XP. Some of the end game screens don't play. I am running it in windows 95 compatabilty mode. What do you mean by visual themes? Do you mean set the theme to the standard XP theme or windows classic?

I've had this problem, too. The death and end slideshow screens go by to fast for the narrator to read them. I usually turn subtitles on and try to read them before they disappear.

When you set the compatability mode, below that is an area marked as "Display Settings" just check the box that says "Disable visual themes" mine now works a LOT better since I did that.

I disabled off visual themes and FO is set to win95 compatibility, but game/death screens still did not play correctly. What is this indeo codec? Will it make the screens work in-game?

Codec is short for compression-decompression
So to play a file compressed with X codec, you will need the X decompressor, or x codec
Divx is a codec, mp3, etc
Indeo is the codec in question but is there an options in your add software control panel
When you do an install you can choose to install default multiemedia compression, so maybe it can be enabled through that?

All windows version have some version of indeo installed,
indeo used to be given out free from intel,
then ligos bought it and is selling it on www.ligos.com for $15, why they dont provide older versions of indeo for free is beyond me