Fallout 1 with xp PLEASE HELP!

[The wanderer]

My copy of fallout 1 arived in the post,and now it wont work with windows xp!!! is there anyway to make it work with windows xp service pack 2? if anyone can helpASAP would be very greatfull thankyou

[Xandax]

I know there is a patch which makes the game more compatible with Windows (95 I belive it was back then).
Possible using that patch would help.

I didn't have (many) problems running Fallout 1 on my Windows XP machine, so my advice (outside the aforementioned patch) would be to try and mess around with the compability settings for the game. (right click the .exe file and selecting properties and compability).

Other then this - I have no real advice (maybe a pure DOS partition could do the trick as well?)

[The wanderer]

oh ok but soon as i click install it says sorry this product is not supported by this version of windows. if i cant evan install how can i patch it? me and my mate are going to try and make a windows 98 petition if we can find our old 98 cds and run it through that fingers crossed it works, thanks for your helpany way.

[TrueGeek]

I feel your pain wanderer

[moltovir]

I solved my XP problems by copying the entire Fallout CD to my hard drive, then activating Win 95 compatibility on every exe file before installing, and again using Win 95 mode on every exe in the installed game folder.

[Jazz.z]

Since XP is based in Windows NT, it may work, or may not. I just installed both games, fallout 1 and 2 but the first one didn't work while the second one runned fine.
But finally I made it work.

Check this link. It helped me out,

Fallout: Frequently Asked Questions

[Crenshinibon]

I installed it using the compatibility mode option for Windows 95/98 and it works fine.

Try doing that.