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Fallout 2 for modern operating systems
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Couldn't find load text fonts - windows installer from GOG #322

Open lethalrush opened 1 year ago

lethalrush commented 1 year ago

I have purchased and downloaded the windows installer from GOG.

I created a dir in Applications called fallout2.

I placed the windows installer setup_fallout2_2.1.0.18.exe in Applications/fallout2.

I downloaded and placed fallout2-ce.app in the same folder Applications/fallout2.

When I run fallout2-ce.app, I get "Couldn't find/load text fonts."

What am I doing wrong? I've searched the issues here and didn't find a solution for the GOG windows installer.

c6-dev commented 1 year ago

It needs actual files of the installed windows game, not just the installer itself.

lethalrush commented 1 year ago

ok so I found something called Extractor which extracts stuff from exe installers and ran it on the installer. then i moved fallout2-ce.app into the extracted app folder. that seemed to do it.

https://macsourceports.com/utilities

eirnym commented 1 year ago

It's possible to extract GOG exe files using innoextract tool (which could be found in MacPorts and Homebrew).

Then Fallout2-CE.app folder should be copied inside the Fallout 2 folder, and result folder should be put in /Applications or ~/Applications. Dock.app will see Fallout2-CE.app and run it properly.