Presentation
You don't know Half-Life 2, really !!
Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source are now native Linux software available on Steam.
Note: This document is also ready for Counter-Strike: Source game.
How-to
Basic Installation
Packages needed:
- wine
Other things needed:
- Official DVD of Half-Life 2
get tahoma.ttf (see Get tahoma.ttf below)
Your system must be correctly configured with 3D acceleration
Instructions:
- Save tahoma.ttf file in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
- Insert DVD
- Run Setup.exe
Follow instructions of the setup (Updates and decrypting files can take a very long time !)
Wine Configuration
This is recommanded Wine Configuration. Go to:
K > System > Wine Configuration
Note that it's important to disable Pixel Shader option
References
Linux-Gamers How-to (
?Advanced User)
Get tahoma.ttf font
The easy way : download it from Google search
Or Get it from Microsoft
download tahoma32.exe from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188081/, then extract it, then copy it :
cd /tmp wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe apt-get install cabextract || echo "You need 'contrib' in /etc/apt/sources.list" cabextract tahoma32.exe mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts mv Tahoma*.TTF ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
Error messages and solutions
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Errors
x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found(800x600x32)
:$ bash -x ./run.sh
+ WINEDEBUG=fixme-all
+ wine 'C:/Program Files/Valve/Steam/Steam.exe' -fullscreen -dxlevel 70 -width 1024 -height 768 -applaunch 220 -heapsize 256000 +map_background none
Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin C:/Program Files/Valve/Steam/Steam.exe -fullscreen -dxlevel 70 -width 1024 -height 768 -applaunch 220 -heapsize 256000 +map_background none ...
err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path.
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x1
err:systray:delete_icon invalid tray icon ID specified: 1
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x1
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found(800x600x32)! (XRandR)Error:
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found(800x600x32)! (XRandR)
Solution: Direct rendering is not active
glxinfo | egrep "NVIDIA|direct" direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL version string: 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.39
Reference: here
Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0046)
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0046), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000). Register dump: CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b EIP:00000000 ESP:0034e414 EBP:0034e444 EFLAGS:00010206( - 00 - RIP1) EAX:052d0ca8 EBX:00000000 ECX:052d0c60 EDX:011899bc ESI:2051cf14 EDI:00000000 Stack dump: 0x0034e414: 200e817e 00000001 2028aa27 00000000 0x0034e424: 00000000 00000000 0034e420 0034df78 0x0034e434: 0034e48c 20289c8c 2032a210 00000000 0x0034e444: 0034e460 2028aaab 00000000 00000000 0x0034e454: 00000001 2028a39c 00000000 0034e49c 0x0034e464: 2028a4a8 20000000 00000000 00000000
Solution: disable Shader Pixel in Wine configuration
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