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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Fallout 2 - here we come
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 11:39:44 -0700
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On 5/2/2024 6:36 AM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 5/1/2024 10:52 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 30/04/2024 22:21, Justisaur wrote:
>>> So I decided to try Nevada, which is a mod of Fallout 2.  It's 
>>> supposed to be a lot more story than the other games.  It has the HD 
>>> mod, but the resolution I'm setting doesn't seem to do anything.  The 
>>> scaler works though - which I'm using 2x, it looks better than 
>>> without the scaler.
>>
>> I've now tried the scaler x2 and put it back to the higher resolution. 
>> That is so much solved!
> 
> The HD resolution works in full screen, but not windowed mode.  I was 
> trying to do windowed, but I found some info that the old fallouts don't 
> play well with windowed.
> 
> I was getting tired of the restrictive inventory (and no companion to 
> load up in Nevada) so I was looking up inventory mods.  I found that 
> Fallout 2 from GoG and Steam have the FO2 Engine Tweaks (Sfall) 3.2 in 
> it, and you can change the line in the fallout 2 root
> 
> ddraw.ini
> 
> CritterInvSizeLimitMode=0
> 
> to
> 
> CritterInvSizeLimitMode=4
> 
> that only counts your equipped items for carry weight.
> 
> There's also a mod to make inventory management easier, though I haven't 
> tried it out yet as it requires updating the Sfall mod to at least 
> 4.2.8.1  I'll give it a try as soon as I figure that out.  I think an 
> updated Sfall might be part of the restoration project though.
> 
> https://www.nma-fallout.com/resources/inventory-filter-mod-english-version.142/

*Sigh*  I just suddenly haven't felt like playing it the last couple 
days. I don't know why, I was enjoying the game.

My daughter did get me to play some EDF with her yesterday, maybe the 
better action drew me away.  Though I stopped playing the day before.

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-Justisaur

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