# Fallout lovers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [July 23, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972 "2009-07-23T05:16:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/1 "2009-07-23T05:16:58Z")
Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics have been released on one DVD. I found it at walmart while browsing the PC game section. If this is old news sorry but I don’t remember seeing a thread about it.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/2 "2009-07-23T10:11:05Z")
Did they happen to update them to make them a bit more windows friendly?
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/3 "2009-07-23T12:00:53Z")
I saw the individual DVD re-releases of each game the other day, which said in fairly prominent type on the back:
**THIS GAME IS COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS VISTA**
So I would say the answer is “Yes”- but Vista is a bit temperamental and just because it works on _Your_ Vista machine doesn’t mean it will work on your friend’s Vista machine…
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### Author:  [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/4 "2009-07-24T06:29:30Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> Did they happen to update them to make them a bit more windows friendly?
All I can tell you is the system requirements says for WIN 98/2000/ME/XP.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/5 "2009-07-24T06:41:56Z")
IIRC, Fallout 1 won’t run under windows 2000/XP and requires dosbox. I can’t remember if FO2 needs any tricks to run.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/6 "2009-07-24T10:19:39Z")
[www.gog.com](http://www.gog.com) is a lovely place where Fallout is 5.99, Fallout 2 is 5.99, and Fallout Tactics is 5.99. It’s completely legal and licensed, it runs under XP or Vista, with no tricks, comes with soundtracks, manuals, keyboard maps, a Fallout Bible of ‘why does this do that’ and cut bits, and little avatars to use on forums. Oh. And no DRM at _all_.
Same people who wrote The Witcher.
Lots of great stuff there. Share and enjoy.
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### Author:  [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/7 "2009-07-24T20:31:31Z")
I wonder if it’s possible for any group to remake Fallout 1 and 2 using Fallout 3’s engine.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/8 "2009-07-24T23:22:35Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> IIRC, Fallout 1 won’t run under windows 2000/XP and requires dosbox. I can’t remember if FO2 needs any tricks to run.
Last fall, I installed both Fallout 1 and 2 in XP, and I don’t think I had to do anything special with either. At most, and I don’t even remember doing this, I would’ve had to right click, select properties, and make sure it was running in compatibility mode for Windows 98.
For Fallout 1, the disc has both DOS and Windows (95/98) versions on the same disc. Just make sure to install the Windows version and then no DOSbox is needed.
IIRC, Fallout 2 was Windows only so you don’t even have to worry about which version to install.
These are with the original releases of each, I have no idea if changes could have occurred with the versions in this compilation. But if the changes made them less compatible with modern OSes, that would be a real mindblower. I don’t have any version of Tactics, so I can’t comment on that at all.
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### Author:  [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/9 "2009-07-25T00:22:06Z")
I have Tactics loaded up on my computer and it works fine in Vista.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-lovers/503972/10 "2009-07-25T00:40:26Z")
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> Last fall, I installed both Fallout 1 and 2 in XP, and I don’t think I had to do anything special with either.
If you edit the config files to look just for the Fallout root folders, then you can have it just as a folder that you can put anywhere. I keep the installed version of the game, with variant versions for different fan patches and mods, archived so I can just drag it to my desktop from the DVD to play anytime I feel like it.