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Fallout 3 Working with Custom WINE Build

Tags: fallout 3 | game | linux | WINE

Fallout 3 running under WINE on LinuxDays after work began on getting Fallout 3 working under WINE on Linux it looks like there's been some rousing successes.  If you follow this link you'll find instructions to compile a patch against WINE release 1.1.8 that should see Fallout 3 working.  The required D3D patch is here.

Message posters over at WineHQ have resolved various problems, bumped up performance a bit, worked around some mouse issues, and gotten the game mostly working.

One thing that might be an issue is compiling WINE from scratch on a 64 bit platform, as it requires 32 bit libraries.  Remember to make sure the required 32 bit compatability libraries are installed.

 
Comments (5)
Fallout 3 Wine Performance on GeForce Cards
5 Monday, 15 December 2008 21:47
Editor
Looks like the minimum performance bar is pretty high on Fallout 3 in WINE. The 7600GS doesn't appear to have enough steam to run the software reliably, and the Radeon HD3650 doesn't appear to work at all for compatibility reasons.

Once we've got a faster GeForce card we'll see what the performance gap really is.
Wine 1.1.10 and Fallout3
4 Thursday, 11 December 2008 04:46
Editor
With the DirectX9 patch it works, but on a GeForce 7600GT it's unusable so far after adding in the appropriate hacks. ATI cards simply refuse to load the opening screen.

So we're not quite to the point where we're ready to run an article on it yet.

It seems that some people have got it working, but they're either on totally different hardware or have some extra hacks in place that they're not sharing.

Another note is that the only relevant hack was to set "VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll" in Current_user/Software/Wine/Direct3D.

With that (and prospectively the D3D hack, haven't tried loading it without that) the game will run on a nVidia card. Provided you've used cabextract to unpack the relevant library DLLs into it's runtime directory.
nVidia and Fallout 3/WINE
3 Tuesday, 02 December 2008 17:38
Editor
Ah yea, when we've got the review wrapped on the game I'll have a bit about both nVidia and Radeon in there.

Still doing the comparative run through on Windows at the moment so I can relate it to it's native environment.
what about NVIDIA users???
2 Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:45
Tombo
Sorry to be so 'nvidia'-sounding biased (but I'm not) but has anyone on this site had success with WINE-run FO3 with a mid-range NVIDIA system, rather than an ATI one?

Thanks, genuinely hope for a good answer.
We'll Be Posting an Article
1 Wednesday, 12 November 2008 01:10
Editor
We'll have an article on this, how well it works, and what kind of performance you can expect out of a mid-range machine once we've got the kinks worked out on the Radeon 3650 series card on the bench.

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