For both games, use the hi-res patches you can find for them on No Mutants Allowed.

Then to iron out all the bugs and issues use the Fixt compilation patch for Fallout 1 and The Restoration Project for Fallout 2 which should also be on there.

Then your games should be set and they should display correctly.

The current FIXT pack on No Mutants Allowed already includes the hi-res patch.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57362
Install this and check if it works.

You should also:
- Run the game with administrator rights
- Install the game into a custom folder and not into Program Files
- Compatibility mode helps, but unfortunately Windows 8 doesn't support Win XP mode, which is recommended

Thanks, still no luck, did some research think its my hardware that is preventing scaling

Maybe it's a problem with DirectX, as Windows 8 comes with version 11 which misses an older library from version 9.
To complete your system, just install DirectX9
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Or your video driver is configured not to scale to fullscreen. You can to turn on stretching in your graphics card's control panel.

nVidia
- Go to the nVidia control panel
- Display => Adjust Desktop Size and Position
- Choose the scaling mode to "Aspect ration" or "Fullscreen"

ATi/AMD
- Go to Catalyst Control Center
- Choose the settings page for your display => Attributes
- Enable GPU scaling and set Image Scaling to 'Maintain aspect ratio' or 'Scale image to full panel size'