wine users - Jan 2011 - Error when trying to open Half-Life 1 in Mac OSX

When trying to open Half Life in Wine on a Mac running OSX 10.5.8, the game
opens in a 600 x 800 window and flashes for a tenth of a second, goes to white,
and displays this error message:

[Image: http://files.myfrogbag.com/bfl1o2/error.png ]

Clicking "OK" just repeats the process, and clicking
"Cancel" exits out of the program. Is there any way I can get
Half-Life to actually run, and in full screen? I haven't edited any of the
Configure files, this is just how Half-Life is by running it out of the box. I
am using the most recent version of Wine, if that helps.

On 1/5/11 7:28 PM, Ammat The Ankh wrote:
> When trying to open Half Life in Wine on a Mac running OSX 10.5.8, the game
opens in a 600 x 800 window and flashes for a tenth of a second, goes to white,
and displays this error message:
>
Install XQuartz 2.6.0.

James Mckenzie

on Mac OS X... you need to do 1 of two things...

1. install Xquartz 2.6.0 (if the 10.5 package is available yet, or you can build
it off Macports).  This has some RandR support for changing resolutions and
fullscreen stuff... earlier versions do not, and that error is very common.. and
it isn't lying to you, the mode really isn't available without RandR
support.

2. On any X11 version, just go in winecfg and enable a virtual desktop... the
game will see that virtual desktop window as its fullscreen and be able to
adjust resolution (modes) correctly by just resizing the window.

either of those 2 should fix the problem, but option 2 will force you to always
have it running in a window.