Not enough hard disk space

Shin · Post by **Shin** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:09 am

My fallout 1 was working fine and dandy up until just lastnight when i tried to launch it, it says that it needs at least 20 Megabytes of hard drive space to run. The problem? i have Over 100 Megabytes free space on my hard disk. Im using XP.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:47 pm

You seem to have messed up megas and gigas, because 100 Megabytes is chickenshit. Or are you talking about memory?

Fallout seems to have problems with certain XP computers. Mine runs well, though. Anyway, off the top of my head: reinstall the game with the Humongous installation option. Set your compatibility mode to Win 95 or Win 98(right click on Fallout desktop icon -> properties -> compatibility). Install the official patch.

EDIT: http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5061

Shin · Post by **Shin** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:49 pm

How odd i did nothing to any of the Fallout folders and it just...started working again 8I and yeah i meant gigabytes

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:28 pm

Naw, you have to go into the .ini or something file and change some number from 20 or 40 to 0.

Post by **King of Creation** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:30 pm

If you only have 100 MB of freespace on your hard drive, it's time to upgrade. Get one of the new 750 GB ones or something.

Regardless, whats probably happening is your system is running out of virtual memory. You probably don't have enough RAM, so the overflow is being used up by the harddrive, and your pagefile isn't big enough.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:32 pm

No, it's just a Fallout bug.
It's described on some installation instruction website.
I suppose it's in the nma link, as well.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:23 pm

Open up the fallout.cfg file, find the line "free_space=20480" and change it to "free_space=0".

You're set.