Download Wrapper Fallout 3 GOTY 1.7.03

Vault 101 – Jewel of the Wastes. For 200 years, Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you’ve ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.

Key Features:

    Limitless Freedom! – Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!

    Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L.! – Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation – the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!

    Fantastic New Views! – The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!

    The Power of Choice! – Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.

    Blast ‘Em Away With V.A.T.S.! – Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.

    Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence! – At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America’s First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.

    Eye-Popping Prettiness!* – Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant’s face.

*Protective Eyewear Encouraged.

Personal Notes:
This game was long overdue for an update and pained me especially hard because my backup for the wrapper was lost when MegaUpload was taken down. So with a bit of regret I have to admit that I was unable to recreate what I had done in older versions of wine with Fallout 3. Ideally this would have been updated to the newly released stable build 1.4, and in fact I was able to start the game without issues but it's unplayable due to mouse functions not working properly. So for now we are at a crossroads, waiting for either a patch for Wine or a fix for Wineskin (Wineskin fix is preferable due to ease of not having to patch Wine from source)

So go ahead and download this WS8 updated wrapper. I used the currently available F3 wrapper by Thanoulas and modified it quite a bit. I was getting a constant crash when trying to open the door to Vault 101 Atrium. After some rigging around with the registry and installing a couple of winetricks I was able to get this working like a charm on my system.

Currently installed engine is WS8DZWine1.3.12d, I'm not sure exactly what Wine tricks Thanoulas installed in the wrapper but the mouse no longer works with my WS8Wine1.3.18_F3 so I left his patched engine in there which works well (but neither as well as 1.4 would) If for some reason you change the engine of the wrapper you can find an archived copy of the Wineskin engine in the Contents folder of the wrapper (Right click and choose "Show package contents") Extract the engine and place it in the Contents > Frameworks folder.

Thanks to Thanoulas for using a file hoster other than MegaUpload when uploading his files
Thanks to clocknova for making my old (highly modified) wrapper available to me for testing

Testing System Specifications:
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Core Duo
2GB RAM
ATI  X1600
128 MB VRAM

Known Issues:
The intro movie breaks and only a fraction of the screen works during the video. Press escape to continue on to the gameplay. The intro movie is the second youtube video below.
-Fixed - The movie now plays all the way through without any issues

When entering into the wasteland the FPS drop slightly. It seems that game play is much more responsive while indoors.
- Fixed - Although there is a still a minimal drop in frame rate it's not nearly as appearant as it was in previous wrappers.

A slight bit of weird lighting effect can be seen on water when using orm=backbuffer
- Fixed - This setting was used to improve frame rate while using VATS although there was an implemented fix for this in Wine 1.3.4, changed setting to default orm=fbo

Installation:
Download the wrapper from the first link in the list above
Install your own copy of Fallout 3 (GOTY or not, it doesn't matter)
Extract the wrapper from the archive
Right click on the wrapper and choose 'Show Package Contents"
Navigate to Contents > Resources > drive_c > Program Files > Bethesda Softworks > Fallout 3
Now navigate to your installed version
drag and drop the contents of the Fallout 3 install folder (atimgpud.dll to VeryHigh.ini) into the open folder of the wrapper
close the windows out and double click the Fallout 3.app to launch the game.

On first launch the Fallout Launcher should appear and give you a message that it is going to set system settings based on your rig. Click OK and allow it to do this. Now click on the options and reset the settings to an appropriate level for enjoyable gameplay. Example X1600 w/ 128MB vRAM gets set at medium, although this looks great performance takes a hit, in lowering the specs to low the performance is spot on. Higher end systems ned not worry about this step.

The Wineskin installer can be used to install the game but it may change the System.reg entries and the executable pathway may require to be changed.