Help, I wanna play a windows game (max payne 2 and half life 2) on opensuse, what should I do to get it to work.
I don't know where to start. Do I need wine or crossover linux?:'(
iamthwee
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Wine would be the place to start. You'll probably need Cedega to be able to run Half Life 2, however.
http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=maxpayne2
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/1555228
iamthwee
Ok, cedega isn't an option, I don't wanna buy anything.
that max payne link looks kool but it is so vague.
I've installed wine through the yast installer.
When I type in wine and the konsole I get:
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exitwhen I type in wine - version I get:-
thwee@linux-25al:~> wine --version
Wine 0.9.24But the link to the cd and setup.exe isn't working.
This is what I typed.
thwee@linux-25al:/> wine /media/hdd/setup.exe
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/thwee/.wine'...
ln: target `/home/thwee/.wine-e9SqqH/dosdevices/d:' is not a directory
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/home/thwee/.wine'. John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Make sure you get Wine working with something simple before attempting to run the latest and greatest game! It should come with something like Notepad.exe, see if that works first. I also recommend reading Wine's documentation; it's very helpful, and I'd also try out other tools like winecfg , which is a configuration program for Wine.
iamthwee commented: Very helpful +12
iamthwee
Ok, notepad.exe is working and so is winecfg.
But how do I get the setup.exe cd to work. Thanx
iamthwee
OMG joeprogrammer you are a freakin genius.
The game is a bit sluggish but it works and I didn't even have to install directx
iamthwee
Hey do ya think I can get Half life 2 working with just wine?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
use Cedega. Costs money but rocks for games - it uses a custom directx wrapper so you get good games performance
iamthwee
I know I won't be using that. No monie :(
And I heard there are still issues with some software, but it is worth buying if only because some of the knowledge accrued goes back into the wine project.
Yay!
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
OMG joeprogrammer you are a freakin genius.
Every once and a while I say the right thing.
Hey do ya think I can get Half life 2 working with just wine?
Well, I did mention using Cedega in the first post, but after looking in the Wine AppDB, it appears that the demo at least will run with a bronze rating, while the retail version runs at a silver rating:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=2095
It's worth a try if you haven't already.
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