A couple days ago, Bethesda Softworks released a teaser trailer for the new game Fallout 76. I have heard speculation that it might be a Fallout MMO, which would be awesome. I have been unable to find any details on release date yet. The news of a new Fallout game made me want to go back and play an older Fallout game.
Feel the Heat in New Vegas! Not even nuclear fallout could slow the hustle of Sin City. Explore the vast expanses of the desert wastelands – from the small towns dotting the Mojave Wasteland to the bright lights of the New Vegas strip. See the Great Southwest as could only be imagined in Fallout.
Fallout New Vegas For Mac Os 10.10
It was while browsing through my Fallout game collection that I noticed Fallout: New Vegas is available on Steam download for Windows users only. I was surprised by this. I thought surely there would be a Mac version released at some point if not a Linux version. I went on the wine website and checked their AppDB to see how compatible Fallout: New Vegas is for running in wine. For those unfamiliar, wine is a program that runs in Linux that can be used to run windows compatible software with varied success. They have an AppDB that keeps track of what programs work for what versions of wine across various flavors of Linux. The wine program’s website may be found at www.winehq.org. The AppDB can be found at appdb.winehq.org.
- Choose how many gbs you want the windows partition to be, and bam youll have a computer that'll do both Mac OS AND windows depending on how you boot up. There's tons of resources on how to this on youtube and it's so easy my cat can do it. But I'm telling you if you're expecting Fallout to work on mac os, you're gonna have a bad time.
- Check out the test results for Fallout and Fallout 2 in their app database. Platinum scores for both! Nice little work-around. Nuka Kulcha 18:05, April 11, 2010 (UTC) WineHQ App Database. Installing wine in Mac OS X. Actually, good news, I got Fallout 1 to work on the family Macbook Pro, which has a different processor that has the 256.
Cutscenes Work Flawlessly in Wine 3.9
According to the AppDB on the wine website, Fallout: New Vegas should work flawlessly in any version of wine since version 3.3. Excited by this, I downloaded the game to one of my Linux machines and got ready to play. The flavor of Linux I prefer to use is Lubuntu, a Ubuntu variant. The game downloaded successfully and I launched it with wine. The game bombed right at the title screen.
Depressed and annoyed by this, I checked my wine version I had install on my machine. You do this by opening a terminal and typing in the command, “wine –version”. I saw my machine had wine version 1.9 running on it. Users of Ubuntu and its variants who want to get a stable, system compatible version of wine up and running very quickly can use the the Synaptic Package Manager, search for wine, and install the most recent wine version offered within the “Universe” package repository provided by default upon installation of the operating system. This version of wine, while tested to work well with the operating system, is not the latest and best version of wine to achieve high compatibility with more recent Windows programs. To do that, you must go to wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu and download the latest version using the instructions provided there.
There are three branches of wine versions that can be installed via the apt-get command on Ubuntu flavored Linux systems directly from winehq: stable, development, and staging. Stable is less error prone, obviously. Staging is what will hopefully be released with the kinks worked out in the next version. Meanwhile the development branch, despite its name, has turned out iteratively better versions of wine that can be used with relative stability until the next stable branch version comes out. The longer I get away from a stable wine version, the more I feel a need to use the latest development branch version.
To install the latest development branch version of wine onto my Lubuntu system, I first had to open a terminal and type in commands to add the wine specific repository to download the latest wine development branch packages. The first command I ran was to enable my system to download and install 32-bit binaries and code libraries necessary for wine to run any 32-bit applications. Interestingly, 64-bit Ubuntu systems are more apt to run fully 64-bit code as opposed to Windows systems where it seems many libraries still have a 32-bit variant, sometimes the 32-bit one is used by default.
To add the wine specific repository for the latest branches, run the following commands in the terminal. I ran these commands from my home directory.
Then run an update to pull down the latest package information.
Finally, install the latest wine version from the development branch.
Everything completed successfully, so I was finally able to run Fallout: New Vegas using the latest development version of wine on my machine. I reloaded the game and watched it crash again in roughly the same place. Hmmm, that’s not good. I checked my wine version again. Still 1.9! What happened!?!
The Ubuntu default wine installation from the universe repository installs its wine binaries into the /usr/local/bin directory and has all sorts of system links that call the wine commands located there. This directory is also part of the system path ($PATH), so any wine command contained there will be favored even over a wine command located in the /usr/bin directory. Meanwhile, the wine binaries for the latest development branch are installed to the /opt/wine-devel/bin directory.
It was at this point that I wrote a bash script to replace the old wine binaries in the /usr/local/bin directory with links to the new binaries in the /opt/wine-devel/bin directory. I opened a new file in a text editor and saved it as RefreshWineCommandsToDevel.sh. Once the script was run, all of my Ubuntu specific links were now pointing to the more recent version of wine. The contents of the script follow.
Once the script was created and saved with the above contents, I was able to run the script using the following command from the directory that the script was located in.
After that, when I ran “wine –version” I received output indicating the current version of 3.9. Time to test out Fallout: New Vegas again.
Well, VATS!
It worked! Perhaps flawlessly? There were moments where it would briefly slow down a little or acted funky, but I remember having had a few problems with it when I used to run it natively on Windows. Looks like this was a success. All of the screenshots included in this article were taken from within Linux while running Fallout: New Vegas in Wine 3.9. Many thanks to all of the wine developers that make it possible to play these mainstream Windows only titles on the Linux platform. Wine helps me get closer to having a truly integrated universal gaming platform that will play all of my games.
Game Details:
Welcome to the Fallout Vegas game page. This page contains information + tools how to port Fallout new Vegas so you can play it on your Mac just like a normal application using Crossover. So if you haven’t Crossover yet, then sign up here and buy the program or if you want to test it first, for the 14 days trial. Or use the Porting Kit alternative.
This is definitely one of the best Action RPG games of all times. Get Fallout new Vegas from Kinguin and use the serial to add the game in steam. Just a matter of adding the serial download and play. Simple as that. A good Graphics Card (512mb+) is no luxury here! Have fun! Don’t forget to check out Fallout 3, Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics as well!
Simple Install Steps:
1. Make sure Crossover is installed before downloading/running the CrossTie. Or use Porting Kit.
2. Get Fallout new Vegas (=steam serial) if you don’t own the game yet.
3. Use this CrossTie... to install the Steam game into Crossover or search for the game in porting kit and click install.
4. Windows Steam will be installed
5. Login into the Windows Steam
6. Activate the Serial and download and play! Thats it!
Game Description:
It’s the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead…and that’s before things really get ugly. It’s a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It’s a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way.As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you’ll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare “winner takes all” and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3.
Vegas For Mac
Additional Port Information:
Graphical Cards Tested: AMD Radeon 6770M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Whats tested: Playing for over an hour
OSX 10.7.5 and 10.8.2+ compatible?: yes
Does Multiplayer work?: Not tested
Known Issues: none
Whats not tested: playing from start to end.
Icon: Paul The Tall
Fallout New Vegas For Mac Osx
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