halflife & wine

[Alex Sanks]

well.....that's odd because I had actually updated it to the newest 
version (the windows says v43/1.1.0.4) and it's still ALMOST working, it 
gets to the "Loading..." screen and then...stops.  No errors, no nothing.

I think it hates me :(


Lionel Ulmer wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:00:01 +0200, Nerijus Baliunas
> <nerijus at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Actually didn't notice this line in the wine 
>>> output:err:opengl:wglGetProcAddress Extension defined in the OpenGL 
>>> library but NOT in opengl_ext.c... Please report (lionel.ulmer at free.fr) !e
>> 
>> If it's the first HL demo, it won't work.
> 
> 
> This is a mega-FAQ for Half Life :-) This means that you have a very old
> HalfLife binary and need to upgrade to a more recent one. The updater works
> very well in Wine BTW :-)
> 
> The short story is that the old versions of HalfLife use a now completely
> obsoleted OpenGL extension that is not mentionned anywhere in any OpenGL
> documentations.