Help Installing Fallout New Vegas on External HDD Mod Ready No Steam

Hello everyone,

I am trying to install Fallout New Vegas on an external HD, run it with Lutris, avoid using Steam, and be able to use Mod Organizer 2.

In order to do all of those things, it seems that I would need to manually download the setup files from GOG’s website, which I did.

I can install and run the game from ~/.wine and everything works fine, but that takes up too much space on my main hd.

I cannot install the game and get the installer to use anything but the default wine prefix at ~/.wine

If I move the files to an external drive, I get errors/the launcher loses the files.

This file seems to inform the launcher as to where the files are: goglog.ini

It is located within the New Vegas downloads. Here are the contents of that file:

[1454587428]
Dirs=1
Dir_0=C:\users\USER\Documents\My Games\FalloutNV
[1454587428_remote]
Regs=1
ValueName_0=Installed Path
RootKey_0=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SubKey_0=Software\Bethesda Softworks\FalloutNV
ValueType_0=string
ValueData_0=C:\GOG Games\Fallout New Vegas
DelSubKey_0=false

This is where I put the custom prefix for Fallout NV on my external drive. This is where I’d like the game files to go:
/run/media/USER/EXTERNAL+DRIVE/Games/Fallout+New+Vegas/wineprefix-fallout+new+vegas/drive_c/Custom+Games/Fallout New Vegas/

Am I in the right place? What would I need to change so that I could run the FalloutNV.exe from Lutris, it uses an external drive prefix/not ~/.wine, and if I had to move the files later, is this the place where I would change things?

This is maybe more GOG related than Lutris, but these things are intertwined and there are other problems that are more Lutris focused, but this is the first problem that stops me from proceeding.

If this process is just the wrong way to do it, or you need more information, please let me know. I can provide that. I just don’t know what to include and what not to include and I don’t want to make this longer than it needs to be.

Thank you.

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If you have your game installed in Lutris, go to “Configure” for the game, and see the “Game Options” tab. It is there where you define the location of the wine prefix and the path to the executable you are running. (FalloutNVLauncher.exe)

I also install games to mounted drives (this one isn’t external, but same principle as long as yours mounts in the same path every time)

Personally I don’t use Lutris “install scripts” to install games, I do it manually. Click the + to install a new game and choose “Locally Installed Game”. Omit the executable until the game is installed and then go back and edit that field. Use “Run EXE in Wine Prefix” to install the game using the GoG installer executable. You will have to choose “Wine” for the runner on the “Game Info” tab, and you must specify the location of your wine prefix as shown before you can run EXE to install it.

This should not be fussy on wine/dxvk versions. I’m currently using Wine 10.12 with DXVK v2.7.0. These games (Fallout 3 and FalloutNV) have always worked for me. I have them in the same prefix and I just switch game executables in the Executable field if I want to play the other :slight_smile: