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Fallout SeriesHOWTO: Play Fallout (1/2/Tactics) in windowed mode(11 posts)(11 posts)
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Posted September 25, 2008
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This SHOULD work with both Fallout and Tactics, but I've only tried it on Fallout 2, so I can't confirm it.
Download the following file (it can be opened with Winrar): D3DWindower.lzh
Now, extract it to whatever folder you want (I use the Fallout 2 folder), and start the program. Obviously, it's in Japanese, and therefore a little hard to understand, but click the plus sign, and navigate to the Fallout exe, and select it. When that's done, select the game in the list, and press the little computer icon. Fallout/2/Tactics will now start in Windowed mode, allowing you to stay on MSN and stuff!
This should also work for any other Direct X game, at least the older ones.
Post edited September 25, 2008 by Hideous
Posted September 26, 2008
Would have thought that SOMEONE would be interested in this, but okay then.
Posted September 26, 2008
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Hideous: Would have thought that SOMEONE would be interested in this, but okay then.

I just noticed this thread, and I just want to say thanks for coming on here and posting this method. It works :)
Post edited September 26, 2008 by jecrell
Posted September 26, 2008
It's been mentioned on these forums already - for Tactics you just need to add -w in a shortcut target to run in window mode. Sadly it works only in 800x600.
Posted September 26, 2008
Your post was 18 hours ago, impatient much?
Posted September 26, 2008
Sorry, double post.
Post edited September 26, 2008 by Dodgy
Posted September 26, 2008
Didnt work for me :-(
Posted September 27, 2008
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Dodgy: Your post was 18 hours ago, impatient much?

Used to faster and bigger forums, but okay then.
Posted September 27, 2008
Considering that GOG is still in beta testing, its understandable.
Posted September 28, 2008
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Hideous: This SHOULD work with both Fallout and Tactics, but I've only tried it on Fallout 2, so I can't confirm it.
Download the following file (it can be opened with Winrar): D3DWindower.lzh
Now, extract it to whatever folder you want (I use the Fallout 2 folder), and start the program. Obviously, it's in Japanese, and therefore a little hard to understand, but click the plus sign, and navigate to the Fallout exe, and select it. When that's done, select the game in the list, and press the little computer icon. Fallout/2/Tactics will now start in Windowed mode, allowing you to stay on MSN and stuff!
This should also work for any other Direct X game, at least the older ones.

Tried on falloutw.exe and didn't work. Also tried suggestion below with -w extension on falloutw.exe and still ran in full screen mode. Any suggestions? I'm having issues with part of the "screen" rendering offscreen. It's still being drawn as if I do a print screen, I can see everything, but a good 5-10% of the image is hidden in normal fullscreen mode.
Thanks
Posted September 29, 2008
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Hideous: This SHOULD work with both Fallout and Tactics, but I've only tried it on Fallout 2, so I can't confirm it.
Download the following file (it can be opened with Winrar): D3DWindower.lzh
Now, extract it to whatever folder you want (I use the Fallout 2 folder), and start the program. Obviously, it's in Japanese, and therefore a little hard to understand, but click the plus sign, and navigate to the Fallout exe, and select it. When that's done, select the game in the list, and press the little computer icon. Fallout/2/Tactics will now start in Windowed mode, allowing you to stay on MSN and stuff!
This should also work for any other Direct X game, at least the older ones.

I know this program, used it to play X-COM/UFO in windowed mode.
it can get pretty hard to get it to work right, and since i havent bought Fallout from GoG yet, i cant give hte exact way to do it, but remember to pretty the play button to activate it. Play around with it, it usually took me 5-6 tries to get XCOm to work, although that was because i had to launch the game through other patches, and it didnt like that.
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