Linux Gaming: Fallout 3 installation and configuration (PlayOnLinux) on Ubuntu

[carcrasher65]

i crash around 1:16

when i go to install fallout 3 and the installsheild pops up it crashes soon after any ideas?

[casstax]

Great movie.....Thanks alot :D

[snurre96]

it's great it works on linux, but windows 7 is that to much to ask for?

[jordanlang2]

Screen recording program?

[DaweyYT]

@jordanlang2 recordMyDesktop with the GTK frontend.

[QsoftStudios]

Im getting a no cd found error. I tried useing a no cd patch-crack and it said this application has encouterd a problem and needs to close. what do?

[AMonteverdi]

i cant get it... i have to incert the cd?load the iso file in a virtual drive? adn then start wine then playonlinux and it will appear there?

[AssassinationProject]

1:08 I do not have any cdrom option... why is that? Im I missing anything? Help pls.

[Gigamonkey2]

i have the steam version of this game,  when I launch the game off steam it goes to the splash screen and gives me the option to choose play. When i click on play, it crashes. Any ideas?

[vcpd0523]

Cant wait to start using LINUX

[Dannyri101]

Do we need to patch the game at all in order to play?

[twistedreality100]

can u help me it keeps saying it cannot start because its configuredwrong and i reinstalled it like 3 times...

[TKKG90]

did you have already installed directx ?

[reflexzero]

Got so close! Install went well, but I run into a problem at the end. It tells me that the disc has copy protections and that prevents Wine from running the game. When I run it, it gets as far as the "Please Stans By" screen in the very beginning then crashes.

Any thoughts?

PS.,

I also never got the prompt to patch the game...

[melroy89]

Nice Ubuntu Theme :) Lol Banshee with iTunes logo ^^

[j800r]

hey dude, i don't know if you can help with this, but i purchased DLC via the games for windows live client. I can't seem to get the client to run. is there any way i can download/install that DLC? Also, I seem to have cursor issues when running the game. I have the game cursor, then there's the default Ubuntu cursor on screen at the same time. :|

[Shushiburrito]

nice i love gaming but hat windows dont get me wrong i like xboxlive but i pay to much

[Snorkai]

google Playonlinux if anyone wants it

[DaweyYT]

@321410862 I don't know. I started my quest for a link to the PlayOnLinux webpage many years ago. It required great amount of training, but after I taught myself how to use Google properly it was very easy. And yeah, you have Caps Lock activated, please fix that, fucking mentalist/troll. :)

[DanielBoa]

@DaweyYT Heh, schooled.

[sotiri2]

wat version of linux do you own?

[j800r]

@321410862 if you don't know how to use the repositories or search for software, you shouldn't be on Linux.

[brainlicker1]

@321410862 go to the soft ware center an it should be in the games section of the downloads

[FruitdrankjeNL]

@321410862 in the software centre ya fool

[vcpd0523]

@321410862 wow just look it up on youtube i was just surfing a seen it on a tech show. Dang dude. calm down.

[mastodon1314]

when i try to mount the iso file this message appears "CD-ROM is NOT in ISO 9660 format"!?!?! Can anyone help me!?!?! i try other fallout 3 iso files and they dont work!!! any other iso file works great!!!! PLEASE HELP ME

[mastodon1314]

when i try to mount the iso file it appears "CD-ROM is NOT in ISO 9660 format"?!?!? i tried different fallout3 iso files and they dont seem to work!?!?! any other iso file works great. CAN ANYONE HELP ME

[SkullTutorials]

Whenever I try and install a game on PlayOnLinux I need the cd

[Fisaren]

I got Fallout 3 to work at another computer with Ubuntu 9.10 x64 with Wine 1.1.38 (beta) and PlayOnLinux. Worked pretty well except that the sound is a bit outsynced (may be cause of the sound card I dont know). Now I'm at MY computer with Ubuntu 9.10 x64 and can't get this damn game to work fairly. :(

[jakeaboulafia]

hey this is such a cool video!! i had a couple questions by the way --

1) can you make one of these videos for oblivion?? does it work okay?

2) i have a mac and i'm looking for a good vm to play oblivion. i just set up ubuntu and i was wondering if wine would run it okay?

3) how did you make the window move in a cool way and stuff? are those downloadable effects?

[Crashandburn999]

@jakeaboulafia To your first question, oblivion works fine. And to your 3rd question, those effects comes with ubuntu, and probably other linux systems without any downloads.

[Havermayer]

I tried this and it said "unable to find version 1.1.36". I'm so confused.

[draxbear]

I have the same message. It matches the version of wine that was recently released. It's likely play on linux doesn't recognize it yet so hopefully it catches up soon. Alternately you could try and regress to an older version of wine.

[X1Bit1X]

can i have the link for your theme, i subscribed

[DaweyYT]

I think it's either Aurora Leopard BSM or Mac4Lin. You can find the at gnome-look dooot org

[keyfitter]

Got Fallout 3 to run, but it still locks up from time to time with Ubuntu. It may just be my ATI Radeon card is not compatible even with the latest proprietary driver. For those who have a Linux box freeze up, here is a way out. Hold down Alt + Print

Screen keys, then slowly tap REISUB for a soft reboot.

[omgnotindamix]

do you have to have the game on disc???

[Fisaren]

im getting ubuntu soon :D

[mayhemtv]

thank you sooo much for this video man! supscr. ur chan, Hope to see more vids from u soon.

[CaptChrisT]

This cleared up a lot of worries I had about using this App. I was very confused by all of the scrypting info the website was talking about. Glad to see I dont really need that

[FenrisWolf228]

is there a way to download DLC and install it as well?

[rofthorax]

Wow you got to the menu, but you didn't play it, that's about how far I got without the POL script..

[DaweyYT]

See me two other Fallout videos for gameplay...

[Illyea]

Wow amazing. Does it also run more stably on Linux. The game crashes for me all the time.

I installed ubuntu for work on my laptop and I'm thinking of installing it on my desktop for gaming. It might even make some of my games faster.

[Diabl0pl]

Thanks ;)

[Diabl0pl]

Do you have to play in a window, or you can play in full screen?

[DaweyYT]

You can play in full screen, as with almost all games with WINE. I play in windowed mode to avoid video glitching due to different FPS in the game and video. I just make it easy for myself. :)

[JinxW0lf]

For some reason this does not work for me, and I can't seem to get any info on why it's failing. Everything installs fine, but when I launch the game, nothing happens. When I launch the game launcher, the splash comes up along with a generic WINE error, and then it crashes. I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04

[lin545]

Just a small note. For those of you, who doesnt use KDE or have it installed (Gnome/xfce/*box), there is a small gui GTK program that can mount numerous image formats very easy either via loop or via fuse, and is lighter on resources than Acetone. Google for "Furius Iso Mount".

[MrMarkeh]

Where can I download the exact patch that you used?

[DaweyYT]

The official Fallout 3 site.

[MrMarkeh]

Alright, thanks.

[ziooomi]

everything works great. but the game wont start installing, i have an image and i changed the source from /dev/cdrom to virtual-drive/1 etc. with. iso mounted with acetoneiso. anyone ?

[DaweyYT]

Hmm, I assume that you have made an image of your legally purchased Fallout 3. ;)

Since it is mounted on a different folder I think you must start the Wine configuration tool (winecfg) for the selected prefix and add /home/USERNAME/virtual-drive/1 as an cd-rom in the 'drive' tab.

You can always mount the iso image with the following command:

sudo mount -o loop IMAGE.iso PATH

Are you sure that the iso image is fully working?

[ziooomi]

ofc it's legal :p I've mounted image to /media/cdrom with command that u gave me, and it works perfectly now ;] thx

[DaweyYT]

Just checking... : P

Okay, nice. :)

You can start AcetoneISO as root to mount things in /media. You can edit the applications menu item from 'acetoneiso' to 'gksudo acetoneiso' (I guess you use Ubuntu or something else with GNOME?). Then you will have a graphical popup that will ask you for your password and then start AcetoneISO with Root privilegies. :)

[ziooomi]

Yeah, i use Ubuntu 9.04 with Gnome. again thx for help. selecta! :D

[NSLW2]

Hey DaweyYT,

Thanks for making this video. This is really good and professional made. I hope it'll cause more users to be able to easily install Fallout 3.

BTW. Script is a little bit modified:

-new starting image (thanks to obi1-46)

-installation of latest DirectX from March 2009

-all configuration comboboxes and checkboxes are seen in Fallout3Launcher.exe

-there is an possibility to run Fallout 3 installed from POL's Steam

[DaweyYT]

Hi NSLW! Thanks for many good scripts in POL :)

I will add the update information to the the video description.

[ALkivor]

I am the classical windows user for about 9 years now.After I saw Ubuntu before a couple of days my opinion drastically changed.

But I still wonder..can i play my fav games on Ubuntu with Wine or so?I need an expert opinion, Thank you for your time.

[DaweyYT]

I'm no expert what so ever, but I have had some experience with WINE the last year and just written some guides and recorded some screencasts. Check out the WineHQ and see how your games perform with WINE. I would say that you should read some about WINE and install Ubuntu on your Windows partition (Wubi), and just try it out! Since the Ubuntu installation will be placed on your Windows disc you can easily remove it and just use Windows if you didn't like Linux. What graphics card do you use?

[ALkivor]

Its the Nvidia 9600 GT

Realy any help should be enough..Im downloading the new Ubuntu 64bit now.

[DaweyYT]

Okey, that's a nice start.

What are you searching help with? Linux/Ubuntu in general or with WINE?

[ALkivor]

Both I suppose..dont have experience with both..I told you Im a windows-sheep like a friend of mine said.Anyway..I think most of the things I ll have to practice and experiment on my own ( i think Im not that bad in handling computer software )

PS : Finished downloading :D

[DaweyYT]

Okay, If you encounter any problems then feel free to send me a message or drop a message in one of my videos. : )

I will happily help you as much as I can help you. It can be worth mentioning that I have only used 64-bit Linux a week a month ago or so, so I don't have knowledge how to fix some 64-bit specific problems. :)

[ALkivor]

Thanks for your trouble m8.Ευχαριστώ :)