Fallout 2

What works

A installation from CD, patching, high resolution patch (unofficial), movies, gameplay, saving, loading, adjusting preferences

What does not

nothing that was tested

Workarounds

What was not tested

some fan-made patches, extended gameplay/completion of game

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

patch your game to current (official) before trying to play. - 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'.

�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'