Hi guys!
I decided this weekend to fool around a bit in Fallout 2 and specifically in Nevada and Resurrection 1.5, two great mods for Fallout 2 and since I had some hurdles and had to look around a bit for answers when trying to play in Linux under Lutris, I decided to do a small how to go guide for anyone else willing to try these in Linux.
I mostly play these days in Linux as I leave Windows behind more and more because Linux is getting much friendlier to game with.
So if you play in Linux already or are totally new to Linux and want to do the jump this is a small how to so you can start doing it without much hassle.
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Ok, first of all you need a Linux distro. There are many out there and which one to choose goes beyond the scope of this small post, for ease of reference this guide should work with Linux Mint and any Ubuntu distro.
To begin playing in Linux any kind of game with a high chance of success without doing much you need LUTRIS
Lutris is a GUI Frontend for many emulators including WINE, which is the basis of playing Fallout 2 in Linux.
By downloading Lutris you will be making your life easier when trying to play Windows Based Games that require Wine, meaning that for all people not very tech savvy or not willing to use terminal commands it will be very easy to set up the game.
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Once Lutris is installed in your system, all you need to do now is install Fallout 2 first. If you are fully in a Linux environment the best way to do this is to simply boot up a Virtual Machine with Windows 7 or if this goes beyond your technical knowledge then install Fallout 2 in Windows and then do a copy/paste of the game folder to a pendrive so you can use it later in Linux.
This is also the same recommendation to install either Fallout of Nevada or Fallout Resurrection 1.5, these mods install themselves under a subfolder in Fallout 2.
All you need is Fallout + the Mods installed , then copy them to any place in your HD that Linux can read.
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Once this is done Open Lutris and simply Add a New Game.
If you want to run Fallout 2 only all you have to do is choose Wine as the runner for the game and point Lutris to the executable and that is all.
Now the tricky part: If you want to run either Fallout of Nevada or Resurrection 1.5 you have to point Lutris to the respective executable of each mod: Nevada.exe or fores.exe.
Both mods need a very special tweak as well, pay attention:
In the Configure section of the game you need to go to the section called "Runner Options" scroll down to the DLL overrides section and add two sections:
ddraw.ini
ddraw.dll
in the Key section.
After they have been placed next you have to add in the Value section for each this specific value : native,builtin
This is telling Lutris to override some dlls of Wine with the ones included in the mods, which are specific to them.
Once this is done you now need to edit the ddraw.ini file in each mod .
Pay Attention here----> If modifying the ddraw.ini of Fallout of Nevada look for the MISC section and this option set it to 0
;Set to 1 to force Fallout not to use multiple processor cores even if they are available
SingleCore=0
This will make Fallout of Nevada use multiple cores to avoid slowdown in the game
Pay Attention here ------> if modifying the ddraw.ini of Fallout Resurrection 1.5 look for the SYSTEM section and set this option to 0
;Set to 1 to force Fallout not to use multiple processor cores even if they are available
SingleCore=0
Like the Nevada option it does the same, it forces Resurrection 1.5 use multiple cores to skip the slowdown under Wine.
This should help you set everything correctly to run these awesome mods of fallout 2 in Linux without issues :D
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I decided this weekend to fool around a bit in Fallout 2 and specifically in Nevada and Resurrection 1.5, two great mods for Fallout 2 and since I had some hurdles and had to look around a bit for answers when trying to play in Linux under Lutris, I decided to do a small how to go guide for anyone else willing to try these in Linux.
I mostly play these days in Linux as I leave Windows behind more and more because Linux is getting much friendlier to game with.
So if you play in Linux already or are totally new to Linux and want to do the jump this is a small how to so you can start doing it without much hassle.
-
Ok, first of all you need a Linux distro. There are many out there and which one to choose goes beyond the scope of this small post, for ease of reference this guide should work with Linux Mint and any Ubuntu distro.
To begin playing in Linux any kind of game with a high chance of success without doing much you need LUTRIS
Lutris is a GUI Frontend for many emulators including WINE, which is the basis of playing Fallout 2 in Linux.
By downloading Lutris you will be making your life easier when trying to play Windows Based Games that require Wine, meaning that for all people not very tech savvy or not willing to use terminal commands it will be very easy to set up the game.
---
Once Lutris is installed in your system, all you need to do now is install Fallout 2 first. If you are fully in a Linux environment the best way to do this is to simply boot up a Virtual Machine with Windows 7 or if this goes beyond your technical knowledge then install Fallout 2 in Windows and then do a copy/paste of the game folder to a pendrive so you can use it later in Linux.
This is also the same recommendation to install either Fallout of Nevada or Fallout Resurrection 1.5, these mods install themselves under a subfolder in Fallout 2.
All you need is Fallout + the Mods installed , then copy them to any place in your HD that Linux can read.
----
Once this is done Open Lutris and simply Add a New Game.
If you want to run Fallout 2 only all you have to do is choose Wine as the runner for the game and point Lutris to the executable and that is all.
Now the tricky part: If you want to run either Fallout of Nevada or Resurrection 1.5 you have to point Lutris to the respective executable of each mod: Nevada.exe or fores.exe.
Both mods need a very special tweak as well, pay attention:
In the Configure section of the game you need to go to the section called "Runner Options" scroll down to the DLL overrides section and add two sections:
ddraw.ini
ddraw.dll
in the Key section.
After they have been placed next you have to add in the Value section for each this specific value : native,builtin
This is telling Lutris to override some dlls of Wine with the ones included in the mods, which are specific to them.
Once this is done you now need to edit the ddraw.ini file in each mod .
Pay Attention here----> If modifying the ddraw.ini of Fallout of Nevada look for the MISC section and this option set it to 0
;Set to 1 to force Fallout not to use multiple processor cores even if they are available
SingleCore=0
This will make Fallout of Nevada use multiple cores to avoid slowdown in the game
Pay Attention here ------> if modifying the ddraw.ini of Fallout Resurrection 1.5 look for the SYSTEM section and set this option to 0
;Set to 1 to force Fallout not to use multiple processor cores even if they are available
SingleCore=0
Like the Nevada option it does the same, it forces Resurrection 1.5 use multiple cores to skip the slowdown under Wine.
This should help you set everything correctly to run these awesome mods of fallout 2 in Linux without issues :D
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