Fallout

What works

Installation, but only with Wine windows version set to Windows 95 or 98. Even then, the graphics of the installer are corrupted. 

What does not

Running the game. It crashes to desktop shortly after starting, before the user is allowed to do anything.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Actually playing the game, because everything crashes before then.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This was the original retail CD from the game's initial 1997 release.

Installation Instructions

1. Use winecfg to set the Windows version to Windows 98 for the setup.exe program located on the Fallout CD.
2. Run the setup.exe program with Wine.
3. 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.
4. 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/
5. Use winecfg to set the Windows version to Windows 98 for the Fallout executable, falloutw.exe.
6. 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

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