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Fallout 3 works really nice with PlayOnLinux, but hangs randomly when in game with two messages:

err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised

fixme:d3d:state_zfunc D3DCMP_NOTEQUAL and D3DCMP_EQUAL do not work correctly yet


It's really annoying :)

You can post bug here. New games are usually unstable when setting everything to ultra high. Try lowering one of in game settings and see if this setting was causing frequent crash. If you can post very stable configuration here it would be appreciated.

Hello ultr,

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Version of wine : 1.1.22-Fallout3

Distribution : Debian
Version of the distribution : 5.0 Lenny

Graphics card : nVidia, geForce 8600 GT
Drivers of the graphics card : 180.51

Comments:
Fallout 3 works really nice with PlayOnLinux, but hangs randomly when in game: very often in V.A.T.S. and sometimes during normal play.
These two messages appear on crash:
err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised
fixme:d3d:state_zfunc D3DCMP_NOTEQUAL and D3DCMP_EQUAL do not work correctly yet



@NSLW

I do use the lowest settings possible.
I tried almost all combinations of them, and edited various Wine options, but no luck.
Game hangs very often in V.A.T.S. and sometimes during normal play.

I will check the Wine buglist for this bug, and if no one has submited it yet, I will post it there.
However this POL installer uses original directx, so that may not be easy for Wine team to track down.

Edited by ultr

edited various Wine options

Try disabling antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, start with medium settings (+Radial blur quality to high and Decal cap to 10). I can play little bit longer with these settings.

POL installer uses original directx

No other way to get the game running

Edited by NSLW

Version of wine : wine-1.1.22
Distribution : Kubuntu
Version of the distribution : 9.04
Graphics card : NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB
Drivers of the graphics card : NVIDIA 180.44

Fallout 3 video settings : all (low/medium/high/ultra high), low (@ min. 30 minutes of play without saving (see below))
Fallout 3 resolution : (1280*800 & 800*600)
Fallout 3 version: 1.5

Comments :

Hello All, thanks for all the effort!, The Fallout3 script is working for me! I only have a few annoying issues;
- [edit] Game often hangs when saving game... but the game can load the same savegame fine afterwards.
- Game doesn't seem to display overlapping textures(blood/gunshots on floor/wall) correctly;


Any ideas on how to fix the last issue?

Thanks alot!

Edited by ron

[b]Any ideas on how to fix the last issue?

Try to override antialiasing to at least 2x in nvidia-settings and say if it helps.

PS. Please edit your post above and give your Fallout 3 configuration (medium, high, ultra high etc.) It would help.

Edited by NSLW

Thanks for the reply, overriding antialiasing to at least 2x in nvidia-settings did not help :(.

It might be something to do with the NVIDIA drivers; if I use an older driver (170.*) I get many other problems but the overlapping textures are shown as it should be.

I will try to update my drivers from 180.44 to the newest without messing up my default video configuration(which I already did)....

OK, I updated my driver to 180.51, but it did not help :'(...
[edit] I downgraded to 173.14.16, still no luck...

Edited by ron

Well I couldn't found a solution so I just disabled shadows and decals with iMaxDecalsPerFrame=0 & uMaxDecalCount=0 in FalloutPrefs.ini

all (low/medium/high/ultra high)

I meant what is your stable configuration. The one you play longer than 30 min without crash.

Well I couldn't found a solution so I just disabled shadows and decals with iMaxDecalsPerFrame=0 & uMaxDecalCount=0 in FalloutPrefs.ini

I think you should continue your thread in other post to keep this thread clean.

PS. I updated the installing script yesterday and now you can disable these two values through "Fallout 3 Launcher" just like in MS Windows