Half life/Counter-Strike

[xjimmyx]

I installed Half-life perfectly(so it seemed) and then when i went to run it winex hl.exe it loads alright, but I get an error message(looks like a half life message) it says:

Could not open MCI file for playback: 279: Cannot use 'all' as a device name with the specified command.

I pressed "OK" a few times and it loaded. However, it is very slow and is only in a little window in the top right corner of the screen(of course i want the whole screen =D) i tried playing the game, and i heard the voice in the beginning but the screen just gets smaller and all i see is the "Loading" screen. (I can hear the voice though)


I have a GeForce 2 MX and I have the WineX-1.0-3.i386 rpm (released December 25, 2001) and im on Redhat linux 7.2. I haven't upgraded my video drivers, just with used the ones on the installation.

Any ideas, suggestions, would counter-strike give me similiar problems? Thanks so much in advance.

[xjimmyx]

Update: I tried reinstalling my drivers, and it said:

[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel*
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:NVIDIA_kernel ########################################### [100%]
modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver

NVdriver installed successfully

then:

[root@locate tmp]# rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX*
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
--- WARNING!!
libglx.a
libGLcore.a
libGL.a
libGL.so.1.2.030402
--- The above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm.
--- They have been renamed to xxx.<originalFile>.RPMSAVE to
--- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this
--- package.
--- Please see /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README, section
--- "(sec-05) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" for more details.
1:NVIDIA_GLX ########################################### [100%]


Then, I restarted X and nothing seemed to change. I tried winex -winver 98 hl.exe and I also changed the video mode to OpenGL and at 1152x864 and my X is at 1280x1024.

Ok, great! I tried the new game, and I like the settings(looked nice on my desktop) and then when it loaded...it had to load at least each frame every 5 seconds(it reminded me of playing quake 3 with a 256k memory video card and 28.8k)

I also tried to change XVidmode in the config file to 'N', no luck.

Is it my GeForce 2 MX? I mean, is it obsolete on linux already?



Check out the time, finals are tommorow too. Thanks again.

[ 24 January 2002: Message edited by: xjimmyx ]

[Closer]

You do not have the drivers for nvidia installed properly.

I have RH 7.2 and a geforce with winex and play halflife,counterstrike,alice,redline.RTCW before the finished the linux port, and lots more. ALL at 1024x768 opengl and its very fast

I also play q1,q2,q3,ut,tribes2 with the native ports at 1024x768

If you get nvidia working so will everything else.

I dont mind writing my steps that differ from yours if you need me to. However there are already alot of how to,s posted around


closer

[xjimmyx]

i've tried the how-tos and couldn't seem to get anywhere, could you post yours? that would mean a lot to me

[xjimmyx]

I've been working on it for awhile now, and I got it

The only problem is when I try to play CS, i can shoot and stuff but my keyboard doesn't do anything, anyone else run into this problem?

[bwkaz]

Do you have Notepad? If so, can you type into it?

I'm trying to find out if it's a problem with Wine, or with CS. If you can type into Notepad, then it's probably something in CS, and if not, then it's Wine.

[xjimmyx]

I had my friend send me notepad and it worked perfectly(typing) with the same method i run winex. (saves fine too)

$ winex -winver win98 notepad.exe
$ winex -winver win98 hl.exe

Has anyone here played Counter-Strike with the WineX-1.0-3 version?

[ 27 January 2002: Message edited by: xjimmyx ]

[xjimmyx]

Alright, I did it!

All I had to do was reinstall WineX and it now works like a charm...now all I have to do is work off my rusty skill.