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.
