Trying to get gog.com's FALLOUT to run

megore · Post by **megore** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:34 am

I use a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5, and Crossover Games for Mac version 7.2.1.

I decided to try an experiment and see if the gog.com version of FALLOUT would work on Crossover Games after reading that it doesn't work in the current version.

The difference between the original disk version of FALLOUT AND FALLOUT 2 and the gog.com version is that the people at gog.com have not only reprogrammed them to run on Windows XP and Vista, and installed the latest patches. Gog.com's offerings are also DRM-free, and each game costs $5.99, so that's not going to hurt if you can't get them to run on your Mac or Linux computer.

So I downloaded FALLOUT and used Crossover Games to install it. The instal=
lation went fine with no errors or glitches.

However, when I tried to launch the game, the initial start-up screen would appear, then it goes black and the opening bar of music ends up in a loop with the following error message:

APPLICATION ERROR: C:\Program Files\GOG.com
The intruction at 004b59c1 referenced memory at 00000000
The memor could not be written
Click OK to terminate the application

Anyone got any suggestions on making FALLOUT run on Crossover Games for Mac?

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:56 am

megore wrote: Anyone got any suggestions on making FALLOUT run on Crossover Games for Mac?

This forum is for plain Wine. Crossover questions should be directed to http://www.codeweavers.com/support/

megore · Post by **megore** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:06 pm

It was in fact the people at Codeweavers who suggested I posted the question here to see what kind of suggestions might be offered.

James Huk · Post by **James Huk** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:29 pm

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM, megore<[email protected]> wrote:

It was in fact the people at Codeweavers who suggested I posted the question here to see what kind of suggestions might be offered.

What is this:

C:\Program Files\GOG.com

??

It doesn't seem like any Fallout exe I know of... Maybe gog games use
something like a database program, so you can select your game and run
it from within the program? If that is so... have you tried running
Fallout directly? I mean from the installation location by command:

wine fallout.exe (of course rename "fallout.exe" to real exe name)

??

megore · Post by **megore** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:29 pm

Gog.com uses a downloader to download the game files into a computer.

The game and all its executable files are then found in a folder marked "Gog.com".

James Huk · Post by **James Huk** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:57 am

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM, megore<[email protected]> wrote:

Gog.com uses a downloader to download the game files into a computer.

The game and all its executable files are then found in a folder marked "Gog.com".

I see – try going to the gog.com folder and search for fallout
executable (Fallout.exe probably) and then try running this exe
directly.