wine users - Mar 2008 - :( Orange Box? Please?

I've heard that it's possible to run Orange Box on WINE.  I've tried
several tutorials but can't get it to work - I got it all to install, and
Steam pops up no problem, but the games crash at the loading screen and bring me
back to my desktop.  I even tried the original Half-Life - does the same thing.

I tried using the command line to see if there would be any error or debug info,
but no dice since Steam actually launches the games.

Help anyone?  If it matters, here's my system:
AMD Sempron 3300+
nVidia GeForce FX 5500 256MB
768MB RAM

Distro is Debian lenny, uname -a spits out:
uname -a
Linux darkwing 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 21:04:14 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks,
Scott

linuxpenguin wrote:
> I've heard that it's possible to run Orange Box on WINE.  I've
tried several tutorials but can't get it to work - I got it all to install,
and Steam pops up no problem, but the games crash at the loading screen and
bring me back to my desktop.  I even tried the original Half-Life - does the
same thing.
> 
> I tried using the command line to see if there would be any error or debug
info, but no dice since Steam actually launches the games.
> 
> Help anyone?  If it matters, here's my system:
> AMD Sempron 3300+
> nVidia GeForce FX 5500 256MB
> 768MB RAM
> 
> Distro is Debian lenny, uname -a spits out:
> uname -a
> Linux darkwing 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 21:04:14 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott

You should always check Application DB  (http://appdb.winehq.org/) first. It has
lots of useful information regarding Steam and Valve games.
In your case it seems you did not disable "In-Game community".

I had a similar problem a while back, i fixed it by enabling ALSA and disabling
OSS support. Dont know if this will help u in your case.

> I've heard that it's possible to run Orange Box on WINE.  I've
tried several tutorials but can't get it to work - I got it all to install,
and Steam pops up no problem, but the games crash at the loading screen and
bring me back to my desktop.  I even tried the original Half-Life - does the
same thing.
Yes you are correct it is possible.
>
>  I tried using the command line to see if there would be any error or debug
info, but no dice since Steam actually launches the games.
Yeah, I've had no luck with this either.
>
>  Help anyone?  If it matters, here's my system:
>  AMD Sempron 3300+
>  nVidia GeForce FX 5500 256MB
>  768MB RAM
I'm AMD64 Ubuntu 7.10 GeForce FX 5600 128MB 1GB RAM

My brother is the same except 32 bit.
>
>  Distro is Debian lenny, uname -a spits out:
>  uname -a
>  Linux darkwing 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 21:04:14 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
NVIDIA released an updated driver this week with some bugfixes for
Counterstrike 1.6 and Half-Life 1, but the symptoms were the game
crashing at gordon's face.  I fixed mine by upgrading the driver to
169.12, and upgrading to wine 0.9.55.

My brother has not had suck luck.

Please post your trials in this thread, and I'll do the same for my brother.

-Tres

Thanks for the replies.  I got this working by updating to the new nVidia
driver, and then switching WINE to using ALSA for sound (other tutorial said to
use OSS if it didn't work with ALSA. . . I'm guessing nVidia drivers
caused it not to work, then OSS caused more trouble once that was fixed).

Tutorial is here BTW, once you get it working there's some useful comments
at the bottom about some registry keys that speed it up too:
http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/15/how-to-run-team-fortress-2-half-life-2-hl2-ep-12-in-ubuntu-using-wine/