half-life 1 on steam

[Rodart]

I've installed Steam with wine, half life runs ok, but when i try to join any game or start a new one, goes to the loading screens and freezes , after that a wine error screen comes up.

Anyone?

Thanks,
Rodart.

[beastrace91]

What version of Ubuntu (32bit/64bit) what video card & what driver version? Also if you have any HL1 mods (such as CS) do they work/load or do they freeze as well?

~Jeff

[Rodart]

What version of Ubuntu (32bit/64bit) what video card & what driver version? Also if you have any HL1 mods (such as CS) do they work/load or do they freeze as well?

~Jeff
Ubuntu 9.04 i386 desktop. Nvidia zotac 9500, drivers version 180. i just have hl1 installed.

[castlefox]

What version of wine are you using?

[Capt. Blackwood]

Are you using the latest version of wine.

[Rodart]

oh, no! it's not the newest, i'm kinda new, in fact , i installed ubuntu 4 days ago , :/. i'll try to download and install the last wine. Thanks :D

[beastrace91]

Welcome then :)

And yes - one of the keys to Wine/gaming on Linux is sticking to the current releases.

~Jeff

[Rodart]

oh, i was wondering, could you post a link or something about using linux, stuff like what to do with a .tar file and stuff like that ? :) , thanks.

Rodart.

[asdfoo]

oh, i was wondering, could you post a link or something about using linux, stuff like what to do with a .tar file and stuff like that ? :) , thanks.

Rodart.


a tar file is an archive, like a zip file, except no compression is used if you see it ending with .tar

If you see .tar.gz then the entire archive has been turned into a compressed stream of gzip data, similar for tar.bz2. This means it needs to be decompressed before the archive can be extracted.

If you use file-roller/nautilus, these details don't really matter. Such questions can probably be better directed to a general section of the ubuntu forum though.