Wine & Half-Life

[Burton]

"Paul Woodward" <paul.woodward8 at ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<20010815.101831.981347891.1650 at alesi.woodysoft.org>...

> Seems half life doesn't see 24 bit as it only wants 32 bit or 16 bit.  I

> have got it to work at 16 bit OK.  If anyone has got a fix to allow 24

> bit I'd like to hear it.

> 

> In article <9lcibe$iq4$1 at news.tpi.pl>, "Kraju" <kraju at no-spam.lnet.int.pl>

> wrote:

> 

> > Anyone know how can I fix Half-Life problem? :

> > 

> > "Half Life need at least a 16bit color depth to run, usually this is

> > "32768" or "65535" colors"

> > 

> > I tried many settings in config, and it doesn't work. I have Wine

> > 20010809 from Debian binaries ( other versions don't work too ) and X

> > 4.1.0 with TrueColor (24bpp) color depth on Nvidia card.

> >



try running it with this command:
wine hl.exe --winver win98 -- hl.exe -console

works like a charm ;)