I've put together a Wine wrapper for Fallout 3, allowing it to be played on Linux almost like a native game & with no Wine knowledge required.

Simply run the build script to create the wrapper. If the installer files are not alongside the wrapper build files then the path to them will need to be specified either by passing it as an argument to the build script with -respath="<path>" or by setting an environment variable named WINEWRAP_RESPATH containing it. You can change the path to build the wrapper in and the name of the wrapper directory with the -buildpath= and -dirname= arguments. The build path can also be set with the WINEWRAP_BUILDPATH environment variable.

The output will be a directory containing the game set up within a preconfigured Wine prefix, along with its own copy of Wine, extracted game icons, documentation, and start script(s). From there simply run the start script to play. The start script also includes options for creating a shortcut, configuring the wrapper etc.

(to uninstall simply delete the game directory and any shortcuts you created, and the game's user data directory in ~/.local/share if you don't want to keep your saves & settings)

User data is stored under ~/.local/share/fallout3

Full details are in the readme.txt and release notes. Here is the download link:

fallout3_wine.tar.xz
(40 kB, SHA256: d088648e0b4b17ea044937b94fd5e9793c8c0be37ae55f02df6332a1aff8e707)

Last updated 2021/07/11

The wrapper uses Wine 6.0 + DXVK. Wine and Winetricks will be downloaded automatically if not present; to avoid redownloading for other scripts the downloaded Wine package will be stored in ~/.cache/winewrap

In addition to Wine and Winetricks, Wine Mono will also be downloaded. This will be stored in ~/.cache/wine to save having to redownload it if it's needed again for something else.

If anyone runs into any problems then post in this thread, Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ &amp; Discussion and/or The "Judas&trade; does this run in Wine" thread v1.173.

Using Fallout Script Extender (FOSE)

The start script includes options for running custom commands and creating custom shortcuts for mods, tools/utilities etc. such as FOSE. To use FOSE with this wrapper:

- Install FOSE into the game's directory inside the Wine prefix as you would on Windows (this can be found at <wrapper dir>/prefix/drive_c/Fallout 3)
- You can then launch it by running the start script with the argument: runwine=fose_loader.exe
- You can create a shortcut to use FOSE automatically. Run the start script with no arguments to bring up the menu, select the option to create a shortcut, and set the shortcut arguments to: runwine=fose_loader.exe

This approach can be used for running other launchers & mod managers etc. Read the release notes for more details on the various launch options and script features.

For more of my Linux Wine wrappers check out post 3 in this thread: Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers - News, FAQ &amp; Discussion

Don't bet on that, at least not with "New Vegas".

I've made the mistake of assuming they didn't tamper too much with the files but I seem to have been wrong.

It installs on WinXP but when trying to run it I get: Well, shit...
GOG may have broken something.

Now trying with WINE...

It seems to run just as well in Wine as it's ever done here. Fallout: New Vegas seems to work great too :)

The "PlayOnLinux" setup/pre-config for New Vegas doesn't work either. :(

Edit: Nevermind, found it:
https://www.gog.com/forum/fallout_series/fallout_new_vegas_for_linux

Will try.

Ganni1987 reported that he needed to add an override to disable winegstreamer to prevent Oblivion from crashing frequently. I heard similar stories about Fallout 3 crashing in Wine unless that was disabled, although they all work fine here without doing that. I'll do some testing & if it doesn't seem to cause any detrimental effects here I'll probably update all 3 wrappers to disable it by default.

I had the same problem with Oblivion.

I just tested on an i3-6100 system with HD 530 graphics; the game starts but unfortunately crashes on trying to start a new game. This was on Mint 18.1 with kernel 4.10.0-21 using Mesa 17.1.1 from Padoka's stable Mesa PPA. Thanks for the offer :) I did consider doing something like that, but I'm not sure it would make enough of a difference to be worthwhile. The build scripts in particular haven't really changed much since the first wrappers I did so they're still pretty basic, as it hasn't been a problem to just drop in parts or search+replace to update/modify as needed. I already updated the wrappers to disable it, as disabling it doesn't seem to cause any problems :)

This is just awesome. Thanks so much adamhm!

Thanks for the info. In the end the registry vendor and device id override seems to work. I used the wrong format for my registry file for F3. In case anybody is interested, this should work:

[code]
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\Fallout3.exe\Direct3D]
"VideoPciDeviceID"=dword:00000402
"VideoPciVendorID"=dword:000010de
REGEDIT4
[/code]

Load the entries with regedit 'Fallout 3.reg', where 'Fallout 3.reg' holds the above content. WINEPREFIX has to point to the prefix holding F3 installation as well, obviously. It should be easier to maintain the scripts. I have a good example here should you change your mind github repository.

Edit: fixed link
@admin GOG has no code tags? Change to whatever is equivalent.

I'll add that to the first post :) With my wrapper just run the start script to bring up the menu, select "Advanced options..." --> Registry Editor and then import it from there.

Thanks - I'll take a look.

Should the application specific key not work, the general might.
Change HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\Fallout3.exe\Direct3D to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D.

I've now updated my wrapper's start script to automatically apply this workaround when it's being run on a system using an Intel GPU. An option to override the automatic setting is provided from the script's menu.

With the latest update this should now perform a bit better on systems using the open graphics drivers :)

Playing Fallout 3 through Lutris has been a decent experience so far, but it crashes randomly.

So, I decided to take this wrapper for a spin. Right after loading in, then moving a bit, it crashed (much faster than I'm used to seeing with lutris):

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x5878f8 (thread 0036)