Just wondering, like Quake 1, some people have issues with buying a game and having trouble getting it to run right out of the gate.

Do any of these games have startup issues at all? I just want to check whether to buy them or not. I have the physical copies instead if the GOG versions have issues.

Mine crashes constantly with an error "Instruction at referenced memory could not be read"...

Most of my other GOG games work just fine

I never had much trouble with Fallout 1, I could play the game start to finish without any CTDs.

Fallout 2 on the other hand has crashed on me ever since I had it on physical copy. It's just an incredibly unstable game and I don't think it matters which copy you're playing on, it's gonna crash. Usually when you forgot to save and you lose an hour of progress. Hence why I still haven't actually beaten that game haha.

Very nice to know! Thanks for the replies :)

That's why you should look up for patches and fixes, if you didn't do that already. I, myself, never had problem with both Fallouts after I got them from GOG, but now I'm always patching them with recommended mods, so it's possible that thanks to them there are no crashes, bugs (at least one that I noticed) etc.

I have to right click and run as admnisttrator to get it to work right. Even then, it glitches up on me quite frequently and the only fix is to exit completely out and restart, not sure if it's a problem with something my comp is doing that messes up its ability to run the game or if its the file itself. Minor beefs in grand scheme

Fallout 1, 2 & Tactics work flawlessly on Linux (Debian). I’ve yet to see any of them crash for the first time.

I can’t say anything about Windows or Mac OS.

Fallout 1 is solid on mac. That came in a giveaway after the fact and unfortunately I only have the new macless 2 & Tactics. Haven't given them a play yet.

I play, and have played many times, both FO1 and FO2 on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 on different hardware systems, and I have never had a crash on either game, or either OS. The person above who said "... it's going to crash.." is talking absolute nonsense. My experience is that mods, and especially combinations of mods, cause crashes, not the games themselves. There may also be hardware considerations in some circumstances, but these are the exception.

See that's the problem. The new versions of Fallout (Classic got this update too, so there is no more vanilla in GOG anymore) shoehorn in mods and seem to do a worse job than the actual mods themselves do. Even if it's mostly the HD mod and Sfall for FO2, they're causing problems that the mods themselves aren't supposed to cause.

I've had absolutely no problem with Fallout games nor their mods on all sorts of OSs and hardware up until these came up.

Absolutely no problem here, by running falloutw.exe (FO 1), fallout2.exe (FO 2) or bos.exe (Tactics) I get access to the vanilla game. No HD patch applied by default.

I don’t run the GOG installer to install my games, so maybe the patches get applied by some script during installation.

Even on the fallout2.exe, whenever it was crashing FO2 wouldn't work unless i used the unofficial patch on top of what I was installing. I had more success with FO1 and Tactics however.

In the default installation of all three there's a separate patch program in the folder that can patch the classic version for HD, so you can run EXE without the splash screen (and also a 7zip file for reinstalling the HD patch for some reason). FO2 has sfall in both however. You may be correct, I haven't tried installing by other means than default yet.

I don’t know what "sfall" is.
Is there any way to check if it’s active on my setup?

Here's a summary of what it does. Basically it's an engine tweak that allows compatibility, fixes, and other such things: http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Sfall

I don't think there is a way, but the UP and the FO2 downloads here all have it. The weird thing here is the blurb about Linux and how it's already been said Linux works fine. I think they may have altered it to work, unless that's outdated and newer versions of Wine have fixed the problem. That always happens.