Anyone use WINE to play Half-Life on Linux?

[jamesey]

Is it easy to install?
Does the game run flawlessly?

 

[fivepesos]

configuring WINE to run half-life/cstrike is fairly easy.

however, you can only run in software render mode (at least when i tried, which was a while ago). which severely limits the appeal of the game. it does run stable but slow and ugly. so i guess it doesnt run "flawlessly".

 

[DaHitman]

<< configuring WINE to run half-life/cstrike is fairly easy.

however, you can only run in software render mode (at least when i tried, which was a while ago). which severely limits the appeal of the game. it does run stable but slow and ugly. so i guess it doesnt run &quot;flawlessly&quot;. >>



**ACTUALLY** it will run in OpenGL if you have an card that supports OpenGL in Linux.

Here is the howto: http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.4.1.html

and here is the Linux Half-Life site to get you going..

http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto.shtml



Once you get it going you can use this GameSpy like program to start it..
http://lhl.linuxgames.com/sshots/xqf(gamespy_replacement).jpg

 

[LickEmSmack]

I would like to test the OpenGL settings on my Linux boot (Mandrake 8.0), but I have no games that will run under Linux or under Wine. Can you recommend a free OpenGL Linux game for me?

 

[DaHitman]

<< I would like to test the OpenGL settings on my Linux boot (Mandrake 8.0), but I have no games that will run under Linux or under Wine. Can you recommend a free OpenGL Linux game for me? >>



If you installed the &quot;Arcade&quot; games selection... there are a bunch of OpenGL games already installed in Mandrake...

Look for TUXRACER... and maybe even... BZFLAG..