With Fallout 3 I get the error of being unable to discover the game or point to the proper folder because the plugins is looking for Data/fallout3.esm as a requirement to verify that the selected folder is the proper. But since Linux is Case sensitive Fallout3.esm with a capital "F" is not valid and thus fails to set the proper filepath.
I manually edited the Fallout 3 bundled plugin index.js to change the "fallout3.esm" to "Fallout3.esm"
Furthermore once I was able to set the filepath and load into the Fallout 3 game section of Vortex. I was met with the error of Vortex being unable to find Fallout.ini or Falloutprefs.ini as it still look in usr/atomictem/Documents/My Games even though the ini files are not created there.
I install the GOG version of Fallout 3 through Heroic Game Launcher. So the INI files under Heroic Launchers Prefixes for Fallout 3 /home/atomictem/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition/drive_c/users/atomictem/Documents/My Games/Fallout3/ .
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Tymon3310 commented on 2026-05-06 11:34 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-06 11:55 (UTC) by Tymon3310)
ok, so i found issue:
beta had a bug that made so it couldnt migrate to new config structure - so it coudnt load it and crashed.
it was fixed in 2.0.0 (that i just pushed), and i discovered that first downgrading to 1.16.9-1, launching it, and then upgrading to 2.0.0 (non beta) fixes this.
so if you were on beta.1 or beta.2 build, downgrade to 1.16.9-1 first