I got it working with wine, yay... And it's entirely playable but two problems puzzle me. Number one: The sound is lagging behind. I shoot and then about 1 second later, the gun makes a noise. Now the gun fires instantly but the sound is just delayed. (the same with all sound in half-life, no other game though). Anyone else had this problem? Number two: Performance is still rather poor. The fps is kinda low, time-demo tests give a result of 24 fps at 640x480. I then increase to 800x600. Performance is the same and gives another 24 fps average in timedemos... I read about someone who had a similar problem but forgot where :( Anyways, I tried fixing it with maxfps 100 (used to be 72) but it didn't make any difference. Is there another switch for a similar option perhaps that I don't know about? Thanks for any assistance. Jonas Kalderstam
First off, go look at lhl.linuxgames.com, they have a good HOWTO on getting it to run. For a quick fix on the sound, go the the console and do _snd_mixahead 0.23 . I hope I got that name right but you can find it with cvarlist _ , becuase it's the only var that starts with a _. Good luck. Daniel Sabo
In article <3B94F281.5000302@tjohoo.se>, "Jonas Kalderstam" <colonelj@tjohoo.se> wrote:> Number one: The sound is lagging behind. I shoot and then about 1 second > later, the gun makes a noise. Now the gun fires instantly but the sound > is just delayed. (the same with all sound in half-life, no other game > though). > Anyone else had this problem?Dunno about the framerates but the sound is easy to fix. Edit the /valve/config.cfg file and change this line to read as so: _snd_mixahead "0.23" Have fun! ~Ohmster
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:28:05 GMT Jonas Kalderstam <colonelj@tjohoo.se> wrote:> I got it working with wine, yay... And it's entirely playable but two > problems puzzle me. > > Number one: The sound is lagging behind. I shoot and then about 1 second > later, the gun makes a noise. Now the gun fires instantly but the sound > is just delayed. (the same with all sound in half-life, no other game > though). > Anyone else had this problem? >well i dont know about your fps problem, but the sound one is easy enough to fix. the first thing to mess with is the value of _snd_mixahead in your config.cfg file. ive found that a value of 0.21 works perfectly for me, but you can try others. also, if you use the ALSA drivers for your soundcard, from my experience you will never get perfect sound in half-life. for some reason alsa just doesnt play nice with half-life under wine. --Michael Pearce