F2 restoration project and wine

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bortef

First time out of the vault
Hi,

I just installed F2 & the F2RP on wine (ubuntu). Installers didnt give any errors, but when I start the game, after the short loading screen I get an error:

wmAreaInit::Error loading Cities!

Is this a wine-related error or did I just install wrong?

Anybody had experience with F2RP on wine?

Cheers! :)
 
That's sfall complaining. You'll need to work some magic with the .dll to get it to work under WINE. There are already instructions here.
 
Well I tried to run Fallout 2 in wine it worked but I had installed it on windows and not whit the RP but the unofficial patch so I can't really give you a straight answer but from the thing you said/wrote it could be with the city limit so I would try to use this

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deleted the link since it wasn't the solution\
didn't seen your reply Killap I just wrote mine and didn't wait to reload the page then went to the next tread
 
No, don't apply that file. Just follow the instructions in the link I gave to get the .dll working under WINE.
 
This post is 6 years old but I'll give it a go!

So I'm at the same point as bortef and keep getting the error loading cities. I'm not the most computer literate and it's taken me the best part of 3/4 hours to get this far.

I don't understand how to get Wine to use the native version of ddraw. Have tried typing "ddraw.dll=n" DLL but it's not changing anything.

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Been wanting to play this game for years!
 
I think the wikia stuff means you have to launch the game from a terminal with the command
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw.dll=n" wine FALLOUT2.EXE
after you have cd'ed to the fallout2 directory in the terminal of course. Not entirely sure though, I never used wine. I only really use ubuntu/linux for coding and such, not gaming...
 
Oh well, was just a guess. You probably have to look up how winecfg works then, specifically the part about "setting overrides in winecfg for fallout2.exe". I can't really help you there.
 
Thanks, I've tried and been looking all day. Just searched again and still not getting it or getting it fixed.

Looks like my only options are play the game with a sh** ton of lag and jerky movements or don't play at all!
 
Playing RP without sfall is a bad idea, some scripting won't work as intended.
 
Johno1605 said:
This post is 6 years old but I'll give it a go!

So I'm at the same point as bortef and keep getting the error loading cities. I'm not the most computer literate and it's taken me the best part of 3/4 hours to get this far.

I don't understand how to get Wine to use the native version of ddraw. Have tried typing "ddraw.dll=n" DLL but it's not changing anything.

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Been wanting to play this game for years!
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I hadn't tried playing this game in years until this past month. I had it working on an older windows laptop but now I have a Mac. I ran into a lot of issues getting wine to work and the updates but finally got it all working to include this restoration project.

I ran into the exact same issue you had. I can't ever get wine to load anything correctly thru terminal. Instead I recreated a wineskin from wineskin winery and deleted the one I had been using that kept giving me errors. Using the fresh wineskin I was able to open the 'advanced' section, then 'tools' and then on the left column select the 'config utility' (winecfg) button. From there you find the 'Libraries' tab and type in 'ddraw.dll'. Click add and it should appear below and say 'ddraw (native, builtin)'. That should solve that problem.

I ran into the same save game issues as listed on the other page. I found that locking the individual files instead of the folders resolved that. I think the newest version of wine is different and all the newest updates on Mac are constantly working against you when trying to do things like run an old windows game. Every time I get an update on OS Sierra I have had to re-do my wineskins for this game.
 
Here goes me, resurrecting a zombie...

The dll overrides do work. Still the game is slow like hell. I have no problems running Fallout1 Fixed Edition 3.0 (includes sfall 1.8), but F2 is almost unplayable. I've tried to play with sfall and HiRes patch configs with no avail: in almost all cases the game crashes or does not load at all. The only workable config I found is to have Mode=0 in ddraw.ini while having GRAPHICS_MODE=2 in f2_res.ini. Also, changing GPUBlt in ddraw.ini (suggested by some sources) does nothing for me.

Now, the main difference I saw was by switching to older wine versions. Running under the latest versions 3.6+ (the one I run F1 with) the game gives like 1/2 fps in the main menu and even less ingame. Switching to wine v1.6 helped: F2 became "almost" playable giving like 10-15 fps ingame.

Still I do not understand what is the difference between my F1 and F2 installations if they both use the same version of sfall, which, as far as I understand, is the main reason of this pain. Using Ubuntu 18.04 with Intel HD Graphics 620 (Mesa drivers).

Any suggestions?
 
I'm not sure what do you mean by same sfall, sfall is different for F1 and F2.
I have pretty much the same environment, (U18.04, wine 3.0, intel HD), F2 runs perfectly.
Configs attached.
 

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Seems like it's a general wine/sfall compatibility problem with the latest wine versions. Have tested it with wine-3.9-staging and wine-3.11-staging; sfall-4.0.6 and sfall2 v1.8 by Crafty. The same exact problem akaine had described, meaning everything is slow as hell. But with wine-3.0.1 sfall works just fine.
 
burn said:
I'm not sure what do you mean by same sfall, sfall is different for F1 and F2.
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Thanks. Didn't know this.

dozen said:
Seems like it's a general wine/sfall compatibility problem with the latest wine versions. Have tested it with wine-3.9-staging and wine-3.11-staging; sfall-4.0.6 and sfall2 v1.8 by Crafty. The same exact problem akaine had described, meaning everything is slow as hell. But with wine-3.0.1 sfall works just fine.
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Yes. It seems it's a wine version related problem. Using v1.7.x works like a charm though. Haven't tested with v3.0.1 yet.
 
akaine said:
Thanks. Didn't know this.


Yes. It seems it's a wine version related problem. Using v1.7.x works like a charm though. Haven't tested with v3.0.1 yet.
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This was the advice I was looking for. The performance difference is remarkable.
 
EDIT: (edit did not work so I post it here..)

OK, I have done it! You need to CONFIGURE -> RUNNER OPTIONS, not SYSTEM OPTIONS. In RUNNER OPTIONS near DLL OVERRIDES you need to add "draw.dll" as KEY and "n,b" as VALUE. Then all is working fine on latest wine.
 
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