[Wine] Re: Half Life 2 - Steam

[Spacen Jasset]

erickfis at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone here is able to run Steam and Half Life 2.
> 
> The instalation is all ok, for both steam and half life 2,
> but whenever I run steam, it starts upgrading to a new version then
> after the download proccess I get a "RunTime" error!
> 
> I've already tried wine 0.9.23 and 0.9.15, and I get the same error at
> the same point.
> 
> It is too sad, because I've just bought a new video card to play HL2 -
> counter strike source - the nvidia geforce Fx5500 256mb- works very
> whell on my linux! much bether than my old video card: ati radeon
> 9600pro 256.
> I think it's because of the driver.
> 
> Please help me!
> 
About 6-8 weeks ago it worked for wine versions ( around 0.9.9 - 0.9.21 
I think ). It looks like recent game updates have broken it. I don't 
know of a workaround. Check winehq.org for info.