Application Details:
| Version: | Retail (32-bit) |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.half-life2.com/ |
| Votes: | 46 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0.3 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
-Everything, except a few regressions have occurre.
-Loading times are much quicker in this version.
What does not
-Framerate is now 15 average instead of 20
-Water reflections are calculated even more incorrectly
-Opening options menu freezes game
-Fonts are slightly corrupted
Workarounds
What was not tested
DirectX level 9
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Perhaps these new revisions and additions to WINE need some more testing.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 5 "Elyssa" | Dec 31 2019 | 4.0.3 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Tristan | |
| Show | Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 30 2019 | 4.0.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Franco | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 31 2019 | 4.0.1 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Dadu042 | |
| Show | Linux Mint Debian x86_64 | Jul 01 2014 | 1.7.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Philipglo Joshua Opulencia | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jul 24 2013 | 1.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Artur h0m3 |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 5159 | Microphone xmit in Half Life and HL:S games very harsh and goes in and out of "focus" | REOPENED | View | |
| 22912 | Half Life 2 and Portal subtitles unreadable | NEW | View | |
| 24684 | Multiple Source engine based games (Steam): out-of-order rendering, bloom effect and lights are visible through walls when multicore rendering is enabled | NEW | View | |
| 27453 | Lag when loading new sound in source games | NEW | View | |
| 34080 | Half-life 2 : Ammo doesn't display when loading game | UNCONFIRMED | View |
First of all install Steam and make sure it's working properly. It is a simple and fast install. You don't want to go through all CDs installing HL2 to find-out that Steam is foo-bared.
Half-Life 2 can be installed from a) multiple CDs; b) DVD or c) downloaded from Steam. b) and c) should work as-is without any major problems.
For multi-CD install:
- Run winecfg and make sure that your cd-rom drive is mapped to a drive (d: for example).
- Start install from outside mount point ex: open CD-ROM in winefile then double click on hl2.exe
cd ~ && wine explorer d:\\- When asked to change CD, in the separate terminal run
wine eject d:- Insert next CD and mount it (browse to it with Window Manager's "file browser"). If CD isn't mounted Wine won't see it
General
In Steam -> File -> Settings -> In-game disable "Steam Community In-Game". Of left enabled Half-Life 2 will not crash on the startup.
Sound
Half-Life 2 doesn't work well/at all without sound. Use ALSA (recommended) or OSS (problematic on most hardware).
Video
On modern GPUs Half-Life 2 should be able to run in all dx-levels (70, 80, 81, 90). However there are might be some visual problems on higher dx-levels. Some drivers known to have problems:
- nVidia: recommended driver: 1.0-9631. Older 87xx drivers have number of bugs.
- ATI: Appears to have numerous problems with advanced features. Ok for dxlevel 70 & 80. Anything above won't work or will be exactly the same as 80.
For better graphics quality you might want to use "-dxlevel 90" command option (might be much slower then with -dxlevel 81)
To fix number of problems with "water in the sky" and lighting add this to the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
Starting
You can start Half-Life 2 by double clicking on it in Steam. Also you can start it with:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Progam\ Files/Steam WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam.exe -applaunch 220 -novid -dxlevel 90 -width 1024 -height 768
