Would you be interested in playing Fallout 2 in highres, with pixel shader effects and with almost 40% more content thanks to awesome "Project Restoration" (community based expansion pack)?
If so - read on!
1st of all download the following torrent - which features an USB (portable) version of Fallout 2!
Link
Now, in case this pre-configured pack fails to run, I will give a couple of in-depth explanations on how to DIY.
1) first order of business would be to make F2 run at a higher resolution, for this you will need the sfall engine tweak which can be downloaded at this link here.
With it you gain the following options for your F2:
* Increase movement and combat speed to up to 10x normal.
* Play fallout in a window
* Use d3d9 in place of the usual ddraw
* Use the mouse scroll wheel in the inventory, barter, conversation and save/load menus.
* Assign a use to the middle mouse button, and adjust mouse sensitivity beyond fallouts normal range
* Adjust or remove the 13 year time limit
* Fixes the broken pathfinder and sharpshooter perks
* Adds some additional script functions for modders to use
2) second order of business is to make the game use advanced pixel shaders found on never hardware which can upscale the quality of display (making the game look much better).
You need to download this (global.fx file) and place it at datashaders under your fallout installation.
Then you have to edit your ddraw.ini file, copy paste the following into it:
[Main]
;Change to 1 if you want to use command line args to tell sfall to use another ini file.
UseCommandLine=1
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[Sound]
;Set to 1 to enable eax.
;Not supported in the windows 9x version
;Requires supporting scripts to set appropriate eax effects for each map.
EAX=0
;Set to a value between 0 and 25 to choose the default eax environment
;This is the environment used in a new game until a script changes it
DefaultEnvironment=1
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[Speed]
;Set to 0 to disable everything in this section
Enable=0
;The speeds corrisponding to each slot in percent. (i.e. 100 is normal speed)
SpeedMulti0=50
SpeedMulti1=100
SpeedMulti2=150
SpeedMulti3=200
SpeedMulti4=300
SpeedMulti5=500
SpeedMulti6=1000
SpeedMulti7=100
SpeedMulti8=100
SpeedMulti9=100
;
This *.ini file has to be placed in the same dir as the fallout2.exe and f2_res_patcher.exe!
Then you have to run f2_res_patcher.exe which will make the game run at a higher resolution.
3) last but not least is the fallout 2 restoration project which includes the following additions:
New Locations:
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EPA
Primitive Tribe
Abbey
Vault Village
Slaver's Camp
Hubologist Stash
Den Residential Area
Enclave Vertibird Landing Pad
Ranger Safe Houses
New Karma title:
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New title given at the start of the game. Can be lost depending on the choices you make.
Changes To Old Locations:
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Arroyo:
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Stealing from the Elder's chest, Hakunin chest, or Aunt Morlis' vase will result in a karma drop.
Ability to plant new seeds obtained from the EPA.
The Den:
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New Area: Den Residential
New Character: Petey - A druggie who lives in the alley
New Quest: Orphanage - get the children of The Den off the streets
New Item: Anna's diary
Learn more about the whereabouts of Sulik's sister
An extended gang war quest. Now involves going to the party Tyler is at.
Klamath:
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There is now another way of killing Keeng Ra'at. Be observant of the scenery.
Extended Cattle Rustling Quest.
Extended dialogue for Maida Buckner - before neither she nor her mother would give you info about the town (would send you in a wild goose chase - ask Mom, ask daughter, ask mom, etc)
Unlocked voice dialogue for Sulik regarding his sister (won't notice until Primitive Tribe area)
Redding:
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It is now possible to cure Fannie of her jet addiction.
It is now possible to make Fannie OD on jet.
Support beams in the mines are now destructible.
Killing all the miners prevents there from being a good ending for Redding.
Modoc:
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It is now possible when falling down in the Ghost Caves or being expelled from the Modoc toilet to break a limb. (Party members are affected too)
New Reno:
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New Character: Three Card Monte and his bodyguard
The ability to tell jokes as a male or dance as a female at one of the casinos
A more involved find Lloyd quest
-New Character: Nikki
New Character: The Barking Man
-Connected to the EPA
An extended way of getting into the Stables as a woman
-before if you went to the Stables (as a hooker) you would just be dropped off at the main gate and nothing really new happened.
Unlocked voice dialogue for Myron regarding the location of the EPA
Sierra Army Depot:
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Trip Wire now works as intended.
Vault City:
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New Location: Village Outside Vault City
-New characters involved as well as several others modified to fit the quest.
Learn some info about the Vault Experiments from Vault City's Vault.
Gecko:
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Mess with the Enclave on the Gecko computer and feel the wrath of the verti assault encounter.
Lenny now glows in the dark when you use a radioactive drink on him.
Ability to become addicted to the game of Tragic.
Lenny now carries a Zip gun when you first encounter him.
Broken Hills:
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New Quest: Money Skimming Quest
-New characters involved as well as several others modified to fit the quest.
-Unlocked voice dialogue from Marcus
Raiders:
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Nonviolent end to Raiders. (Shadow Who Walks)
NCR:
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Ability to attack Ranger safe houses as a Slaver.
Ability to attack Slaver Camp as a Ranger.
Vault 13:
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Find out the real truth behind the Vault Experiments.
San Francisco:
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Return the missing Shi biology corpse
New location obtained: Hubologist stash
Navarro:
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Ability to fly to Enclave in a vertibird.
Enclave:
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Ability to set off the nuke found on the Presidential level.
Random Encounters:
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Ability to get location of EPA from Random Traveler
5 Kaga encounters (he was the previous Chosen One and is now trying to kill you)
Shaman and Chieftain now found in Nomad encounters.
Ability to save Homesteaders and then receive a reward for your service.
Homesteader encounters now contain children.
Space shuttle special encounter now has the Phazer.
You can get this expansion at this link here..
You can get more info/help at this link.
How does it look? :)
Heres how it looks on my 19" screen at 1152x864 (click to see an enlarged image).
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