Hello, I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, or has tried this, but I am running WINE under Mac OS 10.5.7 on my MacBook and I'm trying to play the Half Life 2 Demo to see if it's worth purchasing Orange Box. I've installed STEAM and I have no problem running that with WINE, but when I try to play the demo everything stops working. I enter the demo from STEAM, and I hear a sound, then everything turns whine except for my menu bar and dock. Then I don't hear anything. It's not as if my computer is not working, everything works fine, but WINE, which is not working. When I hit Expose I can see a loading screen for the demo, but only for a second, so it seems like it's 'working' just not completely. After about two minutes of the nonsense, the demo seems to quit and I'm back at STEAM working fine again. I don't know if anyone can answer my question, since most people hear are probably Linux users, but if anyone can help, that's much appreciated. Thank You!
holden57 wrote:> I enter the demo from STEAM, and I hear a sound, then everything turns whine except for my menu bar and dock. Then I don't hear anything.See HOW-TOs on AppDB for your applications. There are few things you can try.
James McKenzie wrote:> >It may be better to move it back. James McKenzie[/quote] I'm trying to figure it out, I'm a newb with WINE, so I'm trying to figure out which is the exact file, because I'm not using a GUI for WINE, I don't think there is one for Mac OS, I used 'winefile' but that's even more confusing for me
I'm actually going to uninstall WINE, and then reinstall it and then go on from there.
holden57 wrote:> But I have a question, I moved the directory from where I originally installed it, for ease of use, should I move it back?No need for Steam. It will work even if you moved it's entire directory somewhere else.
As far as I know I have the most up to date version installed on my computer right now. I really want to learn how to do this (this is more of a learning experience for me than anything else), my friend lent me this game just so I could see if I could try to configure WINE, so I was wondering how to install a game onto WINE from a disk?
Same as usual; you run the installer from the disc. You might need to run winecfg and assign your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive to a drive letter first.
DaVince wrote:> Same as usual; you run the installer from the disc. You might need to run winecfg and assign your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive to a drive letter first.And how do I do this?
I am not one that knows much within Linux.. but i am running Ubuntu 904 in a wubi, within an XP home set up. I know that WINE has made a lot of progress or so i am told.. So far i have not been able to get any games or other wise programs to run properly within it. I have an advanced issue with one type of request and one that might just be a matter of working with Code Weavers instead of wine. Has any one had any luck with a site called Cybertown.com? it has a 3d VRML interface that must be downloaded and installed to run the 3d set up. They use IE as the rule.. and a program called Blaxxun Contact. I was able to get IE 6 to install on the Linux that i have.. but the install of the Blaxxun Contact.. BC.. was a failure.. because its looking for ACTIVE X and DIRECT X. I know very little but i am told that GL can help with that and i wonder "HOW" and if doing some sort of INSTALL of GL support will finally get the BC installed? Cybertown is afamily site.. that uses this Blaxxun Contact to show VRML worlds and Objects.. and to turn TEXT into VOICE. If any one has any suggestions.. i am open. YOU can also try this Cybertown as a visitor with out paying.. and then see the requirements and download the Blaxun Contact. There is also a development called BS contact.. one even says it works with LINUX.. version . BS 7.2 , but thus far.. i can not get it to install and use the IE6. thanks for any help you can offer. the other idea was trying to use a VERY OLD game called Masters of Orion 2 : battle at Antares. i can begin the install to play this game.. but after the install suceeds.. and you hit the play button to begin.. the Game screen has no access to the mouse. the whole Game seems to be active and there.. but with out Mouse there is no way to play the game. ANY One dealt with this Game before? RJ -----Original Message----->From: DaVince <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Aug 6, 2009 8:57 AM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: Orange Box on WINE (Mac OS X) > >Winecfg has a tab where you can assign folders or devices to drive letters. Open the Devices tab, click Add and put the path to your CD-ROM drive in the Path input box. Alternatively, you could select drive D or such if it's already there and change the path to your usual CD-ROM drive's path. Then click OK and run your application from the actual CD or DVD. > >You ask how... But you just open the CD or DVD drive and open any of the EXEs with Wine... [Rolling Eyes] > > > > >
DaVince wrote:> Winecfg has a tab where you can assign folders or devices to drive letters. Open the Devices tab, click Add and put the path to your CD-ROM drive in the Path input box. Alternatively, you could select drive D or such if it's already there and change the path to your usual CD-ROM drive's path. Then click OK and run your application from the actual CD or DVD. > > You ask how... But you just open the CD or DVD drive and open any of the EXEs with Wine... [Rolling Eyes]Will it work if I just copy the disk to a folder on like my desktop? And I was wondering more about assigning video cards and audio cards. Also how do I just 'cd' to the CD-ROM drive from the terminal
Holden, The orange box has cd's, but you don't need any of them, as Steam will download and install for you. Your username and password are all you should need to play your games. Download steam from here: http://cdn.store.steampowered.com/public/images/btn/SteamInstall/btn_getSteam_english.gif Unfortunately there's some issues running Source engine games (CSS, HL2), and I'm going to quote Vitamin again here:> See HOW-TOs on AppDB for your applications. There are few things you can try.http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5085 Since you are running on a Mac, you may experience some things different, and things like a CDROM drive on a Mac can be their own hurdle, so for now, try with the Steam installer (yeah it takes a while to download each game). My biggest success was with setting DirectX levels. I assume these issues are persistent with OS X as well. Start from scratch with Steam and leave the CDs aside for now. The demo will automatically install through this link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/219/ Just click "Install Demo". Chances are Safari or Firefox won't know how to open it, so (yes this will sound redundant) install Firefox for WINDOWS and try the link through there. -Tres -- - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
> Download steam from here: > http://cdn.store.steampowered.com/public/images/btn/SteamInstall/btn_getSteam_english.gifSorry, wrong steam link. Try this one: http://cdn.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi -- - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com