What's the proper way of playing old, low resolution games on modern monitors?

[Jack Of Owls]

I need to desperately re-play FO1 with the suggested resolution settings in this topic for an optimum experience. Wanna hear something shocking? I only played FO1 once, many years ago, and it's still a peak RPG experience for me. Wanna hear something else? One of my favorite character actors was David Warner - a man who could make even a reeking mountain of moist batshit like Nightwing (1979) bearable - and in my only playthrough of FO1, I did something wrong; really really wrong, where I never even got to meet Morpheus, though I did complete the game. Please don't hate me for coming out of the closet about this here on the 'dex.

 

[agris]

Not crazy. Check out the patch guide in my sig, that combined with the resolution settings will make Fallout a joy to play today.

there is another way to play it, in the fallout 2 engine with lots of nice tweaks and options. It’s called Fallout et tu. It’s kinda akin to playing BG1 or BG1 via tutu, which is in the BG2 engine.

Et tu is great, but for a first time - go with TeamX 1.3.5 and crafty’s sfall 1.7.20. Go with original, just at a modern aspect ratio.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Not crazy. Check out the patch guide in my sig, that combined with the resolution settings will make Fallout a joy to play today.

there is another way to play it, in the fallout 2 engine with lots of nice tweaks and options. It’s called Fallout et tu. It’s kinda akin to playing BG1 or BG1 via tutu, which is in the BG2 engine.

Et tu is great, but for a first time - go with TeamX 1.3.5 and crafty’s sfall 1.7.20. Go with original, just at a modern aspect ratio.

Your guides were useful for getting the best out of classic Fallout, its followup and their bastard russian children. 960 X 540 is the way to go since I outgrew looking at ant farms when I was 10. Now I just need to replay FO1 with the recommended patches and correct widescreen resolution. I'm going to try for a scientist nerd build with sociopathic lockpick & loot mentality but not particularly bloodthirsty; however will use extreme energy-ray violence if threatened. So small guns perks/skills to start with until I get the energy weapons. I want high science and repair but people say don't pick these perks/skills since you can find books later to get them free. This time I'm going to scour the entire map so i discover everything (first/last playthrough years ago I just blundered from town to town with only those that showed up tickable in the map menu and didn't explore much C&C.) This time it will be different.