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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon alexbatalov

Linux: Capitalization

Open zlice opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

Running on Linux from a bash terminal I get the error message "Could not find the master datafile" (and proceeding critter error).

game/gconfig.cc sets the strings to these files as lower case, but the GOG install is upper case MASTER.DAT so the file is not found.

Simple symlinks allow the game to run. But if changing the gconfig.cc strings to upper doesn't cause any issues I think that would be better.

ln -s MASTER.DAT master.dat
ln -s CRITTER.DAT critter.dat

zlice avatar Feb 10 '23 17:02 zlice

I prefer Communismation.

MakeSureDudeDies avatar Feb 11 '23 17:02 MakeSureDudeDies

I suspect this one is causing quite some troubles with mods too (which are often distributed with all kinds of mixed naming)

Northfear avatar Feb 12 '23 10:02 Northfear

Fo4 mods are horrible lol. textures, Textures, scripts, Scripts, SCRIPTS

zlice avatar Feb 12 '23 13:02 zlice

data DATA

glad i noticed this issue before compiling and running

ln -s MASTER.DAT master.dat
ln -s CRITTER.DAT critter.dat

arrowgent avatar Feb 12 '23 18:02 arrowgent

The correct way to fix this is to implement case-insensitive directory/file access, but for now you can either rename, create links as you do, or specify correct paths via fallout.cfg.

alexbatalov avatar Feb 12 '23 18:02 alexbatalov

I have no music in fo2-ce since v1.2 and in fo1-ce since release. Some people also think it is related to thsi problem wit hfile naming. (original game files are in all CAPS)

Vic2077 avatar Feb 21 '23 04:02 Vic2077

"DATA/SOUND/MUSIC/" works (edit the original "DATA\SOUND\MUSIC" in fallout.cfg)

(again, a difference between Windows and GNU/Linux)

RicoHeart avatar Jun 18 '23 20:06 RicoHeart