The Operative: No One Lives Forever

What works

Installation, Placement of shortcut on KDE 3.5.2 Desktop, viewing readme file following installation, Game option menu loads with animation of character at the right hand side

What does not

The mouse cursor continues to return to the center of the screen with any movement so it wasn't possible for me to test this demo, even selecting Quit was a challenge.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Gameplay not possible with mouse cursor returning to center of the screen with any movement.

• To get NOLF running on newer versions than Wine 1.5.1, run:

  winetricks dsound directmusic

  Afterwards, open up winecfg, go to the "Libraries" tab and set dsound to Builtin.
  You can also disable the music if you really want to play without it.


• If you are stuck on the loading screen, disable animated loading screens in the launcher, too.


• If the launcher fails to find your CD, start the game with lithtech.exe and all rez-files as parameters.

  ­$ wine lithtech.exe -rez rezfile1.rez -rez rezfile2.rez ...

  This script should w­ork with all version of NOLF:

  $ wine lithtech.exe $(for f in $(ls|grep -i rez$); do echo "-rez $f"; done)

• For widescreen, you can pass more options to the command line:

  ++screenwidth "1920" ++screenheight "1080" ++screendepth "32"

  However, this stretches the game. A better widescreen fix is available here, but you can't play online with it.


• To be able to play online, edit your /etc/hosts.