[Wine] :( Orange Box? Please?

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

> I've heard that it's possible to run Orange Box on WINE.  I've tried several tutorials but can't get it to work - I got it all to install, and Steam pops up no problem, but the games crash at the loading screen and bring me back to my desktop.  I even tried the original Half-Life - does the same thing.

Yes you are correct it is possible.

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>  I tried using the command line to see if there would be any error or debug info, but no dice since Steam actually launches the games.

Yeah, I've had no luck with this either.

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>  Help anyone?  If it matters, here's my system:
>  AMD Sempron 3300+
>  nVidia GeForce FX 5500 256MB
>  768MB RAM

I'm AMD64 Ubuntu 7.10 GeForce FX 5600 128MB 1GB RAM

My brother is the same except 32 bit.

>
>  Distro is Debian lenny, uname -a spits out:
>  uname -a
>  Linux darkwing 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 21:04:14 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

NVIDIA released an updated driver this week with some bugfixes for
Counterstrike 1.6 and Half-Life 1, but the symptoms were the game
crashing at gordon's face.  I fixed mine by upgrading the driver to
169.12, and upgrading to wine 0.9.55.

My brother has not had suck luck.

Please post your trials in this thread, and I'll do the same for my brother.

-Tres