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Fallout 2

Before playing, make sure you patch the game immediately.

To download official patches and cool fanmade mods and fanmade patches, check out: No Mutants Allowed

If you are going to install the fanmade 1.05 patch (recommended), you will need to do some messing around renaming directories. See the Howto below.

Application Details:

Version: All Versions
License: Retail
URL: http://www.interplay.com/fallo...
Votes: 7
Latest Rating: Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested: 6.16

Maintainers: About Maintainership

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What works

Installing - perfect (Humongous)

Playing - perfect, saving/loading as well. Just those cursor problems (slower a little bit than in XP)

What does not

Don't know about anything yet

Workarounds

What was not tested

playing the entire game till the end

Hardware tested

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
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ShowManjaro Linux 21.1Sep 23 20216.16Yes Yes NoPlatinumBob Niemöller 
ShowArch Linux x86_64May 27 20131.5.31Yes Yes NoPlatinuman anonymous user 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Oct 11 20121.5.14Yes Yes NoGoldSerge Hooge 
ShowUbuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 07 20121.4-rc6Yes Yes NoPlatinumLuis Alvarado 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 20 20111.3.26Yes Yes NoPlatinumdan 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
29736 Fallout 2 crashes at "Please Stand By" screen. NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO


�Min. requirements

  • Wine 1.0.1 (Wine >= 1.1.13 recommended)
  • Fallout2 v. 1.02

�Preparing

You must use a version of Wine that is 1.0.1 or newer. Versions of Wine before 1.1.13 are known to exhibit mouse-lag bug. There are a few really old versions that may work, but there's no reason not to try the newest tested version.

WARNING: Following tips are useful mainly for older Wine versions. Applying them is not nescessary.   
  • You can run winecfg and change few parameters.
  • To avoid slow fading in/out use "emulation a virtual desktop", or renice wine process later.
  • ALSA soundsystem may randomly crash wine with fallout games. Try choise OSS (works fine) or ARts (not tested).

Installation

Just mount CD with game and type wine /mnt/cdrom/SETUP.EXE. There no bugs, really. Select disk, path and type of installation (small, normal, full). Recommended choice full installation, but others variants also works.

Playing

  • Run wine fallout2.exe and have fun with greatest postapocalyptic game.
  • To make the game go fullscreen open winecfg and uncheck the box for emulating a desktop.

Fanmade� mods and patches

From prev. mainainer:

If you are going to install the 1.05 fanmade patch, which I recommend, you must first install the official 1.02 patch. Then, you're going to need to do some file renaming. Extract the 1.05 patch seperately, and then browse your Fallout 2 folder. Notice that the filenames in the Fallout 2 folder aren't exactly the same as those in the patch - the patch folder has different cases for some. Simply rename the ones in the fanmade patch to make them look like those in your Fallout 2 folder. Then overwrite them.

If you do it wrong, you will get "unable to save game" errors after starting the game. If you do it right, this won't happen.

Troubleshooting

  • An excellent Fallout 2 troubleshooting FAQ
  • If you get an error like "can't find/load text" check your .cfg file and make sure your cdrom is mounted
  • If the fade effects on the game menus etc. are slow, a possible fix is to run fallout2.exe at a lower priority than wineserver, e.g. wineserver -k; nice -n 5 wineserver -p; nice -n 20 wine fallout2.exe. For best results, try different nice values for wineserver.
  • If your are experiencing mouse lag, install some more recent Wine version. 
  • ­the high-res patch may need vcrun6 (winetricks vcrun6)
  • if your ingame cursor is sticking to an edge of the screen or is otherwise constrained try winecfg > add entry for FALLOUT2.EXE > under the Graphics tab un-tick 'Allow the window manager to control the windows'

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