[Wine] Any experience with old Half Life CDs?
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Mar 28 15:12:29 CDT 2008
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On Friday 28 March 2008 12:05:49 pm Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience loading Half Life using old
> HL CDs instead of Steam. I have two old CDs - one form 1998 and one
> from 2000. I tried installing from the 2000 CD and it installed OK but
> when I tried to do the update from within the game it complained about
> lack of Internet access. When I start the game I get a black screen
> before the menu, and when I choose the New Game menu item the game
> goes nowhere. The mouse still works but only killing X gets me back in
> control.
I had problems with the CD version, myself. The problems changed with
different versions of wine; at that point, having never played the game
before and having received it as a parting gift when a job contract ran out,
I really hadn't given it a whole lot of effort, either. (After I played it,
oooh, yeah, a great deal of my tube time was spent wandering the Black Mesa
Research Facility.)
> I may or may not follow up on this. I have a Steam account so I'll
> shift to that version soon as it has all the updates and is probably
> more recently tested.
When I discovered I could import my CD keys to Steam, and that Steam worked
according to the appdb, I decided to give that route the college try. Sure
enough, installing Steam using the appdb's HOWTO for it, and installing Half
Life worked. I can't recall running into problems once I started playing it.
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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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