Fallout and Windows 2000

[Elwro]

I'll be stuck on a Windows 2000 Pentium 300 laptop for a month and I thought it'd be a good chance of replaying Fallout again. But unfortunately the game tells me "This version of Windows is not supported".
Does anyone know if, and how, is it possible to play the game on that system? Thanks in advance.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Have you tried setting the compatibility? Right click the fallout executable and go under "compatibility" and you can configure it from there. Worked for me.

 

[Elwro]

Have you tried setting the compatibility? Right click the fallout executable and go under "compatibility" and you can configure it from there. Worked for me.

Heh, I'll try that. It's such a simple idea, but I have no experience with the system. Thanks!
Interestingly, Fallout 2 plays just fine with no tinkering.

 

[Elwro]

Well, sth strange happened, but at least I'm now able to play the game.
At first I couldn't even install it. The system didn't display the compatibility options for setup.exe, and install.exe didn't work - it just started and abruptly CTDed after a few seconds. So I tried the DOS installer and to my surpirse everything went fine and the game even has sound.
This Windows 2000 thing is a strange system :D . I'm happy that I have XP on my own machine.

 

[Atrokkus]

And I have some really weird shit with old programs. Like, even PieGates or Fallout... and it goes like "the Autoexec.NT is not suitable for executing MS-Dos and IWndos applications."
(compatibility options don't help)
I think it's because I have only SP1 installed... gotta get the SP2, maybe it'll fix things.

Anybody encountered that?

 

[Elwro]

And I have some really weird shit with old programs. Like, even PieGates or Fallout... and it goes like "the Autoexec.NT is not suitable for executing MS-Dos and IWndos applications."

Well, actually, that's precisely the kind of a message I expected to get when I tried to run the DOS installer for Fallout under Windows 2000. It's synonymous to "Holy shit, dude, DOS times are over1!!!" except for the IWindows part of which I haven't heard. You can't expect compatibility options to always work, too.

 

[Atrokkus]

You use XP? And what Service Pack? 2 or 1?

 

[dunduks]

So I take it that you managed to run it, Elwro?
P.S. Actually this a know problem of Fallout 1, the intaller fails under NT system, here is the official workaround.

 

[Elwro]

@mEtall1x: I use XP with Service Pack 1. Everything works fine.

@Dunduks: yes, I managed to run it. Thanks for the info, somehow my googling skills failed me. (but anyway, the DOS installer worked very well).