Fallout for PC Reviews by Gamers

Still one of the best RPGs of all time. I never tire of creating characters and playing through this or Fallout 2. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are wonderful in their own right, but I still think the first two games are the best of the series. A spectacular world to get lost in, full of interesting characters, a great story, and plenty of random events. I will never forget this game.

If you have issues with graphics/color corruption like I did, here's the fix.

Open notepad and paste the following:

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
falloutw.exe
Start explorer.exe

Once that is done, save it as "falloutw.bat" and put it in the fallout directory with the falloutw.exe. This is a batch file that will turn off the explorer every time you start the game and turn it back on once you end it, which should fix the color isssues.

Also, if you're interested, there's also a high resolution patch available. Just search for "Fallout HD patch" and you shouldn't have trouble finding it.

I too can't play this game because the screen turns black. Is this a video card issue??
I can't seem to figure it out.
Other games play just fine.