http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15839
--- Comment #24 from Erich Hoover ehoover@mines.edu 2008-11-04 09:20:39 --- (In reply to comment #23)
To get past the New Game crash edit Documents/My Games/FALLOUT.INI and set bUseFaceGenHeads=0
Confirmed.
The reason that Fallout3 crashes when starting a new game is that some of the shader effects added require SM 2.0 B or higher. Oblivion only required SM 2.0. Windows users with Radeon 9x00 cards or Intel 965 chipsets have similar crashes.
I thought Wine had support for SM 2.0-3.0 (earlier than 2.0 not being supported). Is this not the case, did Wine skip 2.0b, or is this a bug in the implementation?