HOWTO: Fallout 3 and wine

[karvec]

These are the steps I took to install Fallout3 on my laptop, using latest patch from Bethesda (1.5) and wine 1.1.20.

First of all, enable 3rd party apps and do:

sudo apt-get install libglut-dev libglu-dev xorg-dev build-essential

These should be all the libraries you need.

Next: Follow the instructions at http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Now, download the wine source from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=77449

tar xvf wine-*

Then, get this patch:

http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=20312

File, save page as --> to desktop or wine-* directory.

cd to the wine-* directory and do:

patch -p1 < filename.diff

Now, you can go ahead and do a ./configure, make depend && make then go ahead and sudo make install.

This will install the patched version of wine, which is what we need.

After this, you should be able to run the launcher to set video settings, then cd to your Fallout3 install directory and you should be able to run wine Fallout3.exe no problems with no crashes after selecting New Game from the menu.

If this doesn't work for you, let me know, I forgot exactly what packages I had installed for compiling wine with OpenGL.

[hoghunter82d]

Does this fix the fallout3 cannot detect sound device while you have background music when you click on play? If so where do I put these?


Any help would be awesome.

[razor7]

Hello...downloades, patched, configured, make, and installed wine 1.1.20

after all those struggles, i get this wile running the fallout3 launcher...

wine FalloutLauncher.exe

fixme:actctx****_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\media\\Descargas\\Fallout3\\FalloutLauncher. exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\media\\Descargas\\Fallout3\\FalloutLauncher. exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\media\\Descargas\\Fallout3\\FalloutLauncher. exe" failed, status c0000135

After installing y get sound device not found


Please advise

Thenks a lot!

[recon04]

can anyone repeat this for a noob O_o

[Sparticusx]

This is how i got it working using Playonlinux ....... It's really easy....surprisingly.

Just run these commands from your terminal

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

That will update your source list so that you can download Playonlinux.

then do..

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

This is for Ubuntu 9.04 (or kubuntu)

After you install it in the terminal it will be listed under "games" in your applications menu let it run its updates and then click install and choose "Fallout 3" it's that simple. Hope that helps.

[jabazan]

This is how i got it working using Playonlinux ....... It's really easy....surprisingly.

Just run these commands from your terminal

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

That will update your source list so that you can download Playonlinux.

then do..

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

This is for Ubuntu 9.04 (or kubuntu)

After you install it in the terminal it will be listed under "games" in your applications menu let it run its updates and then click install and choose "Fallout 3" it's that simple. Hope that helps.

Yeah, i installed via playonlinux, but when i start fallout launcher.exe i do as regular, press play and wait for it to start, but i only get a black screen with the sound coming when the background pictures change, no theme or anything (as they say here). I LOVE <3 fallout 3, and really wanna have it on my computer. So... Plz help.

Ps. I did not update the game, is this neccecary? If so, tell me howto.