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Old 06-06-2003, 05:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ironic Half-Life and Wine problem

So i go through and install Half-life, the update, and the newest version of counter-strike and day of defeat. all through wine, and it works great.

The problem is that since i haven't run half-life before it is asking me for the cd key (which i have a legal and valid cd key) but for whatever reason whatever is typed in the keyboard doesn't translate to the screen but rather to the console window...so i can't play half-life. any suggestions?

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Old 06-07-2003, 09:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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can you cut and paste into that window using the mouse?
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Old 06-07-2003, 09:16 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Try installing Half Life just by itself without the upgrades and try putting in the serial number when prompted during install. If that works, the add the rest of the stuff.

Also, you can brose the files and find the one that stores the key and enter it manually into the file. I think that will work...
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You aren't prompted during install, but the first time you run the game.

Try using the 'run' under the K/GNOME menu, instead of the console.
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thanks redwolf, that got it.
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Did the online play work? What WINE/gfx card are you using?
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actually i ended up running into some graphics problems...currently i'm thinking i need to recompile wine...it wasn't picking up that i had enabled opengl at all and it would lock up whenever i tried to play in software mode...and i kinda ran out of time to work on it so it's on the backburner.

i'm using the newest version of wine (release 20030508) with a geforce4 ti4200 and nvidia drivers (although an older version since the new version has issues running in slack at the moment, could be my config).
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Try WineX. HL uses Dsound and DInput as well - winex does much better for them. As you have an NVidia card, you shouldn't have any problems with graphics though.
If you're using Xfree 4.3, check by some other means that the hardware acceleration is working right.
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