This collection includes Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. 2 and Tactics seem to work fine but i bought it just for Fallout 1 so i'll talk about that.

Fallout 1 was released over a decade ago. This DVD installs Fallout 1 version 1.2, released in 1997, long before Windows XP. i already owned this game but my copy didn't run on XP so i bought this. And learned that this has exactly the same problem. Specifically, the game screen goes black every few seconds. i spent a couple of hours searching Google and found that this was a common problem but that there was no solution. Common solutions offered include updating (or downgrading) graphics drivers, trying patches, setting the compatibility mode and adjusting screen resolution, none of which have any effect. So i was really, really sad when i got this game (again) and realized i still couldn't play it

i spent another couple of days researching it and i think i've got something. The screen in Fallout 1 (but not 2 or Tactics, which are newer games) goes black because some application changed the way it looked. Maybe a Web browser refreshed itself or an icon in your status bar changed colors. Anything that changes the way it looks causes Windows to redraw the screen (to update it to the new way it should look). Fallout 1 doesn't know that, even in Win 95 compatibility mode, so it gets blacked out by Windows but doesn't redraw itself

The solution is to shut down everything before starting Fallout 1. It's not a great solution and it took me several days (this time; i tried before months ago) to figure out. None of the Fallout sites that i found mentioned it. But i've been playing with it for a few hours and if i shut down my Web browser i only get the black out screen once every five minutes rather than every five seconds

i'm assuming you already know about the game. It's ancient and it feels that way (especially the inventory management) and looks that way but it's a ton of fun. The game itself is 5 stars but getting it to work on any computer sold in (roughly) the last decade is a 1. Few people will put up with the technical issues but it's great if you can get it to work
This collection includes Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. 2 and Tactics seem to work fine but i bought it just for Fallout 1 so i'll talk about that. Fallout 1 was released over a decade ago. This DVD installs Fallout 1 version 1. 2, released in 1997, long before Windows XP. i already owned this game but my copy didn't run on XP so i bought this. And learned that this has exactly the same problem. Specifically, the game screen goes black every few seconds. i spent a couple of hours searching Google and found that this was a common problem but that there was no solution. Common solutions offered include updating (or downgrading) graphics drivers, trying patches, setting the compatibility mode and adjusting screen resolution, none of which have any effect. So i was really, really sad when i got this game (again) and realized i still couldn't play it

i spent another couple of days researching it and i think i've got something. The screen in Fallout 1 (but not 2 or Tactics, which are newer games) goes black because some application changed the way it looked. Maybe a Web browser refreshed itself or an icon in your status bar changed colors. Anything that changes the way it looks causes Windows to redraw the screen (to update it to the new way it should look). Fallout 1 doesn't know that, even in Win 95 compatibility mode, so it gets blacked out by Windows but doesn't redraw itself

The solution is to shut down everything before starting Fallout 1. It's not a great solution and it took me several days (this time; i tried before months ago) to figure out. None of the Fallout sites that i found mentioned it. But i've been playing with it for a few hours and if i shut down my Web browser i only get the black out screen once every five minutes rather than every five seconds

i'm assuming you already know about the game. It's ancient and it feels that way (especially the inventory management) and looks that way but it's a ton of fun. The game itself is 5 stars but getting it to work on any computer sold in (roughly) the last decade is a 1. Few people will put up with the technical issues but it's great if you can get it to work