Full-screen vs windowed mode?

[l3gacy]

I have heard/read somewhere that there is a way to get any fullscreen game in a window instead. I've been trying to get Fallout 1 to do this as I've recently picked it back up, and am curious as to how to do this.

I've got Windows XP Pro, pretty standard system.

 

[Odin]

None that I know of, you might get it working using a third party util tho..

 

[Kahgan]

unless you have a problem/ugly view/etc. when you play in full screen, then I dont see why you would play in windowed...?

 

[Montez]

You can play the DOS version of Fallout 1 windowed in DOSBox. VirtualPC will do it for the other games, doubt it's worth the money just for that though.

 

[l3gacy]

None that I know of, you might get it working using a third party util tho..

Yeah, I heard that there were some that will do it, but I am not sure of the names of the utilities that manage it.

 

[l3gacy]

unless you have a problem/ugly view/etc. when you play in full screen, then I dont see why you would play in windowed...?

Not TOO ugly, other than the resolution being way too low (I have a 22 inch monitor and it looks really grainy... would ideally be playing it in 1280x1024) I would like to play at work and it's a lot easier to alt-tab to another window instead of alt-tabbing out of fullscreen because the monitor clicks and theres always a few second lag.

 

[l3gacy]

Wow, I'm a jackass. Like 6 posts down was this:

"Fallout in Windowed mode"
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8162

Guess I shoulda paid a little attention before I posted. Haven't had my asshole ripped out yet at least

Alright, I am gonna go do some investigating on some other forums and see if I can get an answer, since apparently I'm not the only one that wanted this done. If I find anything useful, I'll let you guys know.