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 |
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What works
Installer works fine, though no progress-bar is available while files are copied to disk.
What does not
* No progress-bar when installing the game.
* The game, itself. It crashes on start-up, using either AUTOPLAY.EXE or Fallout2.exe.
* Uninstallation does not work using the GNOME Main Menu (Wine -> Programs -> Black Isle -> Fallout 2 -> Uninstall Fallout 2) because backslashes are lost when looking for the uninst.log. (Note, it works using AUTOPLAY.EXE)
Workarounds
What was not tested
The game, of course.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Fallout 2, Version: 1.0 or 1.02, Language: German, if you have an idea what's wrong, please tell me. Bugs are filed as soon as I have more information about them.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Manjaro Linux 21.1 | Sep 23 2021 | 6.16 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Bob Niemöller | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | May 27 2013 | 1.5.31 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 11 2012 | 1.5.14 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Serge Hooge | |
| Show | Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 07 2012 | 1.4-rc6 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Luis Alvarado | |
| Show | Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 20 2011 | 1.3.26 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | dan |
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).
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.
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.
