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I'm trying to play Fallout 3: GOTY edition on Ubuntu 10.04. The install seems to go smoothly. I did notice one thing in the console during the Live install

err:module:import_dll Library GFWLUpdate.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\\\\Client\\\\GFWLive.exe") not found

But otherwise things seemed to go fine.

However, when I try and run the game nothing happens. I don't see any kind of dialogs and the console that I started POL from just says "Running Fallout 3 Launcher". There is no other information.

Can somebody help me figure out what is going on here?

Thanks,
Rich

I just tried running from the command line with what I think is the command POL uses to run Fallout 3.

rwallace@ronin:~$ WINEPREFIX="/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Fallout3" /home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/1.1.44/usr/bin/wine "start" /Unix "/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Fallout3/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start Menu/Programs/Bethesda Softworks/Fallout 3/Fallout 3.lnk"
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00004100
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
rwallace@ronin:~$ err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Bethesda Softworks\\\\Fallout 3\\\\FalloutLauncher.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Bethesda Softworks\\\\Fallout 3\\\\FalloutLauncher.exe" failed, status c0000135

Ok, sorry for the noise but I was able to figure it out. I ran

WINEPREFIX="/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Fallout3" WINE=/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/1.1.44/usr/bin/wine sh /home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/ressources/winetricks vcrun2005

And after that the launcher works. But running the actual game still fails.

So now it was saying it needs msvcp90. So I ran

WINEPREFIX="/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Fallout3" WINE=/home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/1.1.44/usr/bin/wine sh /home/rwallace/.PlayOnLinux/ressources/winetricks vcrun2008

Now the game starts, but immediately crashes right after starting to display the intro.

Awesome! I just tried setting the Wine version for Fallout 3 to 1.1.37 instead of 1.1.44 and it worked. This is awesome!