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, out of the box:
Installing
Playing
Console
What does not
Nothing
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing, I beat the game and even messed around using the console.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Installed using the "Orange Box" Annabelle uses the slot for the pulse rifle, so the only way you can use the PR is to expel all of Annabelle's ammo. It seems like more of a program error than wine. Extreme lag about halfway through the level "Entanglement." I just waited it out and quick saved after it passed and didn't have to worry about it again. I think it's because I set every video setting all the way up.
| 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
