How To Configure Wine For Fallout? A bit confused, searching for help...

Hi...

I know that Fallout 1/2/BoS works under wine, but I can't get it to work good... it is verrrry slow... I thougth that it is wine... was trying all precompiled versions, nothing... then I compiled wine from CVS (today, just hour before this post) with optimisation for my processor (Athlon Barton 2600), with OpenGL optimisation (Using nvidia driver 66.29, fastwrite is enabled and direct rendering works, i get 1350fps in GLXGEARS on my nVidia Geforce 2 Ti Ultra 64MB)... and yes - it runs fallout few frames/sec faster, but still unplayable... I tryied look into config file and set few things... still nothing... I installed F2 patch 1.02 and then fanmade F2 1.05 - nope... same thing... I run it with command:

xinit /usr/local/bin/wine /usr/local/games/fallout/fallout2 -- :1 -depth 16

Since I knew that it should be run in 16 bit depth mode to work fast since in 24 it works slow, but nope - still nothing... Tryed to run it in window - nope...

There are symproms (right now I'm trying to make the beast run fallout 2)...:

- when there is fade like on please wait, I have to wait something about one minute with 0.5 frames/second
- when it is in-game it is something about 5 frames/second - unplayable (on package, not compiled it was something about 2)
-movies are playing in right speed and sound is also great

I don't have right now any other windows game to check if it works with something else...

So I think that I have configured it wrongly (what else?)... can someone guide me throug wine configuration for Fallout 2? I would be graetfull...

Im afraid to say that maybe that might be the best you can get.

Have you found any other commenrs about the speed that game runs emulated on other linux box's ???

Emulation is a funny thing, with my experiance, Linux managed to run emulated Half-Life and counter Strike a few frames per second faster than windows running native... But only ran a much older game called "Unreal" at 3 frames per second, when though my cpu was 5 times faster than the minimum system requirements of the game.

Im sure you have already done the following, and like most other things i have told you recently, you may already know , but it couldnt hurt for me to type it anyways.

you say fast writes are enabled... how about side band adressing ?
http://forums.xisto.com/topic/81986-topic/?findpost=1064289494

have a look at glxinfo, make sure that both server AND client are using nvidia openGL (once i managed to get into a crazy situation where the server was running nvidia openGL, and the client was still on the MessaGL libraries... crazy stuff.

run ldd on the main wine binary, make sure it is linked againsed the correct openGL libraries.. (the nvidia installer does not remove the messaGL libraries that are installed by default along with Xorg)

if you cant tell what openGL libs are from messaGL and which are from nvidia, compare the ldd output of wine to the ldd output of glxinfo (assuming glxinfo reports that it is using nvidia for both server and client)

Hi... thanks for answer...

so - first thing - my card don't support SBA... I would turn it on if it would :]... Second thing I have nVidia's client and server both in versions 1.3 (also glu 1.3) I have all extensions aviable for my card... some time ago I had diferent, but now it works better... I'm running NVAGP since I got nforce2 motherboard... But wine isn't pointing to any Open gl as I see... ldd wine in proper directory returned:

       linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)        libwine.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libwine.so.1 (0x4003a000)        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40054000)        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400a6000)        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401c3000)        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

The other thing I know people are running it up to 20 fps with something about 15 fps as average, but no one say how - there are some how-to's, but they says...: install wine (long section) and now configure it (only two or three lines without eaxmple and anything about making it run faster...)

How do you thing would it run under QEmu? If not I can always spare 2gb for windows and fallout, but I don't want to put "this" on my hard drive

Hello, I managed to run fallout 1 on dosemu, without a hitch, I don't have fallout 2, but you could try to use dosemu instead of wine...