Playing HalfLife under Linux with Wine..

[TheVrolok]

I'm trying to play HL under Linux because I'd rather not boot into Windows unless I have to.. I got it installed easily but I can't play because I get an error about requiring hicolor to be enabled, and that I should set my color depth to 32 or 64 bit.. And I'd love to do that but if I set my default depth to anything above 24 in XF86Config, XFree86 dies upon starting x and tells me that 'nvidia' (the newest NV drivers) can't support 32 bit... which is crazy because I know my GeForce FX 5600 can handle color depth above 24 bit.. is there anything I can do to trick the drivers into letting me use a higher depth, or trick HL into letting me use 24 bit?

Just learned that 32/64 bit doesn't actually exits, it's just the number of colors.. and that 16 bit is "hicolor" .. either way.. can I somehow trick Linux/Halflife into getting along?

 

[Entity]

There is a difference between how linux interprets "32 bit" and how Windows does it. I don't know the exact details, but:

``32 bpp'' is actually 24 bit color aligned on 32 bit boundaries. It does NOT mean the cards are capable of 32 bit color, they still display 24 bit color (16,777,216 colors). 24 bit packed pixels modes are not supported in XFree86, so cards that can do 24 bit modes to get higher resolutions in other OS's are not able to do this in X using XFree86. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3 801/805/868/968, ET4000, and others.

http://r703a.chem.nthu.edu.tw/~ks/linux/howto/Hardware-HOWTO-5.html

Someone in the OS forum might be able to explain it better. This is all IIRC.

Rob

 

[TheVrolok]

I've now gotten HL running .. but it runs horribly. The menu itself doesn't look bad, but the descriptions are all garbled and when I try to start a new game after I select difficulty level it just seems to start (goes to black a sec) then comes back out to the menu but the menu/window doesn't respond.

 

[Spyro]

Try winex