[Wine] Re: Poor wine performance

[vitamin]

Passiday wrote:
> So I could install the HL2, and even launch it, but when it starts loading that blurry start menu, it crashes at some point, and throws me out to the desktop, at lousy 800x600 resolution.

See general troubleshooting HOWTOs for Steam and HL2 in AppDB. In general:
 - Make sure your sound is working
 - Disable steam in-game community
 - Start HL2 with "-nointro" command line option to skip initial video
 - Start HL2 with "-dxlevel 80" command line option

If none of that works - your video card and/or your drivers are not good enough to run HL2.