FOT - Black Screen startup solution!

[taylorb]

I'd tried to find the answer to this problem but could not find any solution on the internet, but now I've got one for anyone having the same problem:

I have WinXP SP2, ATI Mobile Radeon 64mb, and DirectX 10. FOT installed fine and I patched it to 1.27. The FT level editor worked fine, but the game itself would freeze on a black screen every time I started it up. No sound, no intro movie, just an hourglass.

So, for anyone else with this problem, the solution is simple, but I couldn't find it anywhere else: simply delete the Miles folder in your FOT directory. The problem is with the Miles Sound System, and apparently the 1.27 Patch was supposed to fix this, but I guess it didn't fix it for new versions of DirectX.

Also, I couldn't find a list of FOT command line switches, so here's a list for anyone who might need it:
Go to the FOT shortcut, open up the properties, change the target to "[FOTDirectory]\BOS.exe", with quotations, and add any of the following after

-s Disables sound
-m Disables music
-3 Forces DirectX3
-7 Forces DirectX7
e.g. "C:\Games\Fallout Tactics\BOS.exe" -s -m

Hope this helps some people who might have been having the same problem. Now I can finally play FOT again!

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

It's only two files in the miles directory that need to be moved/deleted and that solution has been known since practically the game was released.

And try searching this forum in future or DaC. The command line options have been posted several times already so has the miles solution. Here's two recent examples.

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12633

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1371

Hope this helps some people who might have been having the same problem.

Hopefully other people who have the same problems will bother to search the forums before posting.

I thought DirectX 10 was limited to Vista?

 

[snowman2009]

start issues need help

hi i desided that id beat Fallout Tactics BoS (PC) again andfor some reason after instalation it wount start the monitor just goes black and nothing shoes (but the computer is still working) i let it be for about 15 minets but still nothing changed so i hit Ctrl+Alt+Delite and it says that fallout is not responding.
I realy wana play it again do you guys have any idea whats wrong with it?
P.S.
I installed it on lap top (no Vista)

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

Please search the forums before posting. And in future if you need technical help, 'lap top (no Vista)' doesn't really tell us much.