Steam Games on Linux

For my next set of tests I chose to try installing and playing the Fallout series of games. While Fallout 3 is well known, I can whole heartedly say it’s worth playing this franchises’ humble beginnings.

Unfortunately for many Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, this actually isn’t possible as these games don’t run well (or at all) !  Lucky for us, we’re Linux users with our WINE, making it much more likely we can enjoy our vintage gaming…

RUNNING THE GAME:
I’m happy to say that Fallout 1 started up straight away, in fullscreen and all intro videos played fine.  I was able to start playing straight away. Character creation went well and soon I was leaving the vault…

ISSUES:
The only thing I noticed was the cursor movement over the main part of the game-screen lagged and the game appeared to run a little slow… though over the bottom part of the game control interface the cursor moves just fine. Being predominantly a turn-based game this doesn’t affect gameplay too much, though it is noticeable.  I suspect this has something to do with the 2D ATI drivers… will have to do some digging on this…