I started getting this messege after I installed a new game the other day. Nothing would work so for ****s and giggles I did a Hard drive space clean up and a defrag. That worked for a few weeks till I installed a new game again. Rinsed and repeated the free up space on hard disk and the defrag and Im good again until I intall somthin new. Im kinda far into the game so the patch isnt a option till I beat it then start a dif character. So until then the above works. Rob
For all those who have this problem in the future, the website No Mutants Allowed has a troubleshooting FAQ that is really useful. No Mutants Allowed :: View topic - Troubleshooting FAQ, for technical help And I'm playing Fallout 2 and didn't have the last vaule (free space one), so I just added it and it works fine.
Although it may be some years, i'm sure there are still a lot of player of the originals fallout, that's way i will share my method too. Instead of setting the value in fallout.cfg to "0", i changed it to 2048, this way you won't have the memory problems in the long run. The problem is because the game cannot see too much free space, so if you set it to a lower maximum space, and more than zero, it will work and still find memory if needed.
Can't understand why I have never put this problem on the technical problems -thread. Mistake fixed, and I added both the "0" version and your suggestion Yemetha, just in case.