Fallout Forum

Finally, at long last, this game is playable for me (GMA 950 MacBook). Previously, this game was unplayable due to the slow gameplay/mouse bug, but fixes in the 1.4 codebase for WINE seem to have addressed this. The game plays well both with assorted unofficial bugfix packages, and the high-resolution mod, but it should be noted that if the screen display is set to 24 or 32 bit colour massive slowdowns may occur. Furthermore, in 10.6 the game runs fine in fullscreen; in 10.7 the game needs a virtual desktop to be enabled or else the display will become garbled.

Exactly the same problem I'm experiencing (and many other games included): while in fullscreen, the display is completely corrupted. I really don't want to play this game in windowed mode (I have a 27'' Mac!).

Agustin Cordes wrote:

Exactly the same problem I'm experiencing (and many other games
included): while in fullscreen, the display is completely corrupted.
I really don't want to play this game in windowed mode (I have a
27'' Mac!).

It looks like this is a Lion issue since I'm experiencing this in Fallout 2 and other games like Shogo MAD and Blood 2.

Im upgrading now to see if it works, on versions 10.x it have not worked without the mouse lag etcetera.

As an addendum to my last post, I've discovered that setting DirectDrawRenderer=gdi in winecfg solves the issue of Fallout (as well as F2, Shogo: MAD, Blood 2, and otherS) showing garbled graphics in full screen under 10.7 in CX11.x.

Just like with my comments for Fallout 2, after some more extensive repeated testing with CrossOver 11.1, I can't help but rescind my earlier glowing statements regarding both Fallout and Fallout 2 under CrossOver (and WINE for that matter). While the game runs better than it did under previous versions of WINE and CrossOver, and the game is playable, the in-game cursor and game speed are still extremely slow; not slow enough as to be unplayable, but slow enough that it would detract from the experience. It's a shame because it's a game I've really wanted to work for a long time - and others on the WineHQ database have echoed my experiences. While the relevant bug in WINE has been marked as fixed, some people still report sluggish performance as well.

I've revised my rating to Bronze level as a result of this.