Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

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For the 2004 action RPG, see Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Fallout
Fallout	1997
Fallout 2	1998
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel	2001
Fallout 3	2008
Fallout: New Vegas	2010
Fallout 4	2015
Fallout Shelter	2016
Fallout 4 VR	2017
Fallout 76	2018

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

No Mutants Allowed Forum - General Fallout Discussion

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com
Bethesda.net
GamersGate
GOG.com		Previous Interplay-published version supported OS X as well.
Green Man Gaming
Steam

Fallout Classic Collection includes Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official 1.27 Patch

Upgrades version 1.13 or 1.25 to version 1.27. 1.26 Tactics Editor tools are included too.^{[citation needed]}

The Steam and GOG.com versions are pre-patched to version 1.27.

InstallShield installer won't work if you have the Steam version.^[3] Use the repacked patch and then fot127cdremover instead.

Fallout Tactics Hi-Res Patch v1.0

Error when applying Hi-Res Patch to Steam version

Supports the US 1.27 and the German 1.25 versions.

Error when using with unpatched Steam version.

Bonus Mission Patch

From the Fallout Tactics Bonus CD and adds the Springfield bonus patch.

To be able to play it you'll need to be in the first Fallout bunker before applying this patch.

It also can be made available manually by editing the bos.cfg file in the "/core" directory. Find {misc.bonusMission} = {false} Change the "false" to "true" and save the file.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro.BIK^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\core\movie\` Delete or rename `intro.BIK`.

Game data

Game options

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\core\bos.cfg^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Key bindings are stored in <path-to-game>\core\keys.cfg}}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\core\user^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Syncs up to 953.67 MB of game data (maximum 1000 files).

Video

Display options

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Fallout Tactics Hi-Res Patch v1.0.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Launch the game with `-w` parameter
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Manually edit `keys.cfg`
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Sound options

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, sound effects, music, speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 2.0, EAX 2 and RSX 3D^[4]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian				Fan translation, download.
Polish				Local retail version only.
Russian				Official localization by «1C-Softclub». Local retail version only.
Russian				Unofficial localization by «7th Wolf»
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play		GameSpy services have been shut down;^[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Game hangs/crash at startup

Restore DirectSound3D^{[citation needed]}

Delete Miles Sound System files^[6]
Go to `<path-to-game>\miles` Delete or rename `Mssa3d.m3d` and/or `Mssa3d2.m3d`

Missing Inventory

Only use if experiencing missing items in inventory.

Missing Inventory Patch^{[citation needed]}
Download and apply [1].

Black rectangle over top-left part of the screen

Disable NVidia In-Game Overlay

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Steam

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 400 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.650 MB
Video card (GPU)	SVGA DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectSound

Disc Version

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, 2000, Me
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	750 MB (minimum installation)	1.6 GB (full installation)
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/38420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (38420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-4] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-5] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/38420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (38420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel Interview - IGN

[2] Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com

[3] Fallout Collection: High-res HOWTO - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)

[6] 3D sound support game list

[7] Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[8] Game crashes after launch. - GOG.com support

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Developers

	Micro Forté
Publishers
	Interplay Entertainment
	Bethesda Softworks
Engines
	Phoenix^[1]
Release dates
Windows	March 15, 2001
macOS (OS X)	November 15, 2013^[2]
Reception
Metacritic	82
Taxonomy
Series	Fallout