wine users - Mar 2001 - Half-Life + Wine (and other programs I suppose...) Recommendation!!!

Ive tried very hard to get Half-Life to run on my Linux box...and I have 
finally managed to get it to work...the problem (the BIG  problem) was
that I was trying to use an installed version of windows as the
basis of wine. It worked fine with most programs...but not Half-Life and
some other games...

My recommendation is that you dont use a preinstalled version of windows
as the basis of a wine installation...

So when you install wine make sure you have umounted all your windows
partitions with a with windows-os directory. Thats it I guess...and besides
you can includes these drives at a latter stage in your
.wine/config file anyways. 

Also as I have bought the latest generations edition of Half-Life so I can 
tell you that the standalone Counterstrike game worked fine too...I have
not yet tried Opposing Forces or Team Fortress...

kind regards
//Alex

ps. I guess that this tip could apply to other games as well....:)

alex wrote:
> Ive tried very hard to get Half-Life to run on my Linux box...and I have
> finally managed to get it to work...the problem (the BIG  problem) was
> that I was trying to use an installed version of windows as the
> basis of wine. It worked fine with most programs...but not Half-Life and
> some other games...
>
> My recommendation is that you dont use a preinstalled version of windows
> as the basis of a wine installation...
>
> So when you install wine make sure you have umounted all your windows
> partitions with a with windows-os directory. Thats it I guess...and besides
> you can includes these drives at a latter stage in your
> .wine/config file anyways.
>
> Also as I have bought the latest generations edition of Half-Life so I can
> tell you that the standalone Counterstrike game worked fine too...I have
> not yet tried Opposing Forces or Team Fortress...
>
> kind regards
> //Alex
>
> ps. I guess that this tip could apply to other games as well....:)
Hey Alex..
That is probably the single most useful tip I have yet come across in this
group..THANK YOU !!
I've spent countless hours frigging around with HalfLife with little to no
success.. I followed your advise and everything now works flawlessly.
The 1104 patch was necessary for OpenGL to work. It had almost reached the
point of obsession trying to de-bug my old setup and it's incredible how
smoothly everything went with a dummy windows directory. Can you say mkfs -t
ext2 /dev/win98 ?! Yippee. SOF and everything else I've tried runs great as
well.
Thanks again.

Jim

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======================================================Jim Chisholm
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
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>My recommendation is that you dont use a preinstalled version of windows
>as the basis of a wine installation...
>
I'm with you... I've not had any problems with HL because I didn't
use an
existing installation of windows.... of course, that could also have something
to do with the fact that I don't HAVE an existing installation of windows...
*looks innocent* I actually had Win2k, which I used to play RogueSpear (yes,
that was it's entire purpose) but since the Jim Allchin comments, I've
decided
that since M$ is so against Open-Source GPL, that they don't deserve my
bussiness.  Now, I can't wait until Rogue Spear runs under wine... (I can
get a
black full screen, but it doesn't get much further)

Daniel "Krach" Foesch
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