A famous post-apocalyptic role-player game by Interplay.
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
The movies, the game.
What does not
The game works only on a virtual desktop. Directly on X there is only a black screen (however sounds work fine). Possibly it is a problem with color depth?
What was not tested
Long play.
Additional Comments
This is the free version from gog dot com.
I had to use a dlloverride: ddraw set to native and I had to use the virtual desktop. Using X directly would give out visual output at all. The high resolution patch instead needs vcrun6.
It is not a big deal: if you want to play fullscreen just use your WM to put the wine virtual desktop windows fullscreen.
Use winecfg to set the Windows version to Windows 98 for the setup.exe program located on the Fallout CD.
Run the setup.exe program with Wine.
Fallout doesn't correctly detect disk sizes, this problem also occurs when you try to install Fallout while running Dosbox or Windows, select the small installation for now.
If you have version 1.0, download the 1.1 patch, and extract it to your Fallout directory, for example: $ tar xf fallout_patch_1.1.tar.gz -C ~/.wine/drive_c/Fallout/
Use winecfg to set the Windows version to Windows 98 for the Fallout executable, falloutw.exe.
Optional:
If you don't want to insert the Fallout CD every time you want to play the game, you can copy the game files to your hard disk: $ cp -r /mnt/cdrom/master.dat /mnt/cdrom/critter.dat /mnt/cdrom/data ~/.wine/drive_c/fallout/
Be sure to overwrite master.dat and critter.dat, Fallout generates smaller versions of these files when running as a cache.
Edit fallout.cfg, and change the paths specified by the music_path1, critter_dat, and master_dat options from your CD-ROM to your harddisk, for example: master_dat=D:\master.dat should be changed to master_dat=C:\fallout\master.dat.
Notes / Possible Issues
Notes / Possible Issues
The sound stutters, movies stutter, game is generally slow.
Setting the nice level for Fallout can seriously increase performance: $ /usr/bin/nice -n 18 wine falloutw.exe
You may want to try fiddeling with the exact nice level.
The game crashes, even after the 1.1 patch!
Some patches have all the filenames uppercased, Fallout only seems to look for lowercased filenames, download the patch from above.
I can't save my game!
Again a problem with uppercase/lowercase filenames, try: mkdir data/savegame, you can remove the uppercased SAVEGAME if you want
The fade-in/fade-out takes ages!
Use winecfg, and set turn "graphics->emulate a virtual desktop" on.
The game won't run: segmention error.
ALSA is known to cause this, try Wine 1.0-rc1 or use OSS or Arts.
Mouse pointer is unusable
This known bug #6033, and appear on 24bpp desktop, for workaround use this command:
xinit `which wine` /home/path/to/fallout2.exe -- :1 -depth 16
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Slow game / mouse drag
by Math Wiliam on Wednesday November 21st 2012, 15:09
