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Fallout -- GOG.com version -- linux and COG 7.1.0

Ostensibly this is exactly the game title, but as repackaged by GOG.com

The GOG version is ;

A 506mb executable installer (game itself patched to official release 1.1),
citing winXP/Vista as the installation candidates, is DX-7/DX-9 compatible
(the latter being recommended).

The installer does -not- include the old directx redistributable support
package as far as I can tell.

The installer -does- include a version of Adobe Reader 9.0 in the bundle,
to be installed/used for reading the game manual/documentation.

Using cxgames 7.1.0 / linux -> unsupported bottle/winXP profile ; the GOG
installer completes it's operations with no apparent errors.

I have read the other threads in this forum -- the GOG version seems to
run OK on this cxgames version/OS in windowed mode...the mouse is stable
and quite usable, and although occasionally the mouse does sometimes seem
to get a bit 'chunky', it is only now and then and doesn't really impact
on the game-play overall. I've only yet had about 30mins playtime with the
game itself in cxgames, but in that time I noticed no other problems.

Fullscreen mode (unwindowed) is totally wacko here, probably made worse
by my xserver twinview setup (I might recheck later with this turned off),
and the mouse became totally detached from the screen-pointer (which had
wandered off of it's own accord, attached itself to the lefthand edge of
screen..and then slowly moved up and disappeared into the netherworld
beyond the top of the monitor...never to be seen again)..ctrl-alt-backspace

You can still do a pseudo fullscreen in windowed mode obviously, if you
cycle the xserver to 800x600 mode and center the wine-desktop window the
game is running in...and this probably looks OK on 4:3 display hardware,
but it looks like rubbish on a 22" 16:9 widescreen panel...works though.

Note: I concluded to thread this under the existing compatibility database
entry for Fallout, as opposed to creating a new entry for the gog.com
re-release of the very same game (software). That said, I cannot tell you
for sure whether or not (or what..) the folks at gog.com might have done
with their re-release of Fallout, to make it into a product that targets
the OS candidates that it does. What I am suggesting here, is that the
process involved in gog's remaking of this title for XP/Vista, might have
side-effects that impact the cxgames user as well running this app...that
is, compared to the original/other releases of this same game....

...so, keep in mind this is the gog.com version thread of this same game,
in this app's forum -- results here apply only to the GOG remake of this
title, and if you're using another release of this game, might not apply.

I haven't been able to make the gog.com version run on Crossover Games for Mac 7.2.1.

Installed on my MacBook Pro fine, but it gets as far as the initial launch screen before turning black, the screen shrinks, and the first bar of music ends up in a loop, and the following window pops up:

APPLICATION ERROR: C:\Program Files\GOG.com
The intruction at 004b59c1 referenced memory at 00000000
The memor could not be written
Click OK to terminate the application

Only quitting Crossover Games stops it.

Something similar for me with Crossover Games 7.2.2. The game is listed as "known not to work".

Adisakdi wrote:

I haven't been able to make the gog.com version run on Crossover
Games for Mac 7.2.1.

Installed on my MacBook Pro fine, but it gets as far as the initial
launch screen before turning black, the screen shrinks, and the
first bar of music ends up in a loop, and the following window pops
up:

APPLICATION ERROR: C:\Program Files\GOG.com
The intruction at 004b59c1 referenced memory at 00000000
The memor could not be written
Click OK to terminate the application

Only quitting Crossover Games stops it.

Thanks for the heads-up ; I just rechecked this with COG 7.2.2 and am
seeing exactly the same error now under linux. Obviously the newer COG
releases did infact break this game on both Mac & linux (in exactly the
same spot it seems). All I can do is check it again against the upcoming
COG 8.0 betas (when they appear)

Just letting Fallout fans know this (the gog.com version at least) is
working again in the COG 8.0 beta/rc1 testing...be happy ;)

Excellent. I'll test the CD version in a day or two.

Just tested my CD version of Fallout, and not a single issue. Installed to a Win98 bottle (the game doesn't support XP) and it installed, came up fullscreen, and everything worked without a hitch - videos, mouse, graphics, everything.

Perfect, from what I can see so far.

<edit> I note, actually you said your version is 1.1 - my official game CD installed 1.2 straight off the bat. That could have something to do with it, perhaps. </edit>

Carl Morgan wrote:

Just tested my CD version of Fallout, and not a single issue.
Installed to a Win98 bottle (the game doesn't support XP) and it
installed, came up fullscreen, and everything worked without a hitch

  • videos, mouse, graphics, everything.

Perfect, from what I can see so far.

<edit> I note, actually you said your version is 1.1 - my official
game CD installed 1.2 straight off the bat. That could have
something to do with it, perhaps. </edit>

Hi Carl,

Not sure if it was a version thing or just a transitory moment in crossover/wine evolution,
but whatever, it all seems okay now with 8.0

Also....if you could/would...can you please create another thread here, relating your information
about the CD version in that thread? (just c&p stuff you've written here into that new thread) This
is just to keep things all segregated/ordered in cases like this where more than one version exists.
...ie; this being the gog.com version posting, people with the CD release may overlook your info. (I
could do all this myself, but then I'll end up inheriting your postings -- it is best that doesn't
happen, as only you have the CD version, and credit where credit is due etc etc blabla... ;)

Yup, good call - it is done.

Carl Morgan wrote:

Yup, good call - it is done.

Damn you're quick!! ;D

Thanks heaps, all nice and crystal now.

Heh, I always have a desktop email client open when I'm at the PC, and I set the website to email me pretty much whenver anyone posts anything, anywhere. It just gets filtered off in to a folder on the IMAP server for my later perusal. I just happened to see the notification flash up in the corner of my screen that you'd posted ;)

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