Half-Life 2

Episode One is the first in a series of games that reveal the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launch a journey beyond City 17.

Follow HL2 installation howto to install and configure HL2 Episode 1

Application Details:

Version:	Episode One: Retail
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.half-life2.com/
Votes:	1
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.1.35

Maintainers: About Maintainership

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Test Results

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What works

Installing by DVD;
playing the game;
changing settings.

What does not

HDR makes the game extremely slow (unplayable, while on Windows on the same computer it plays well);
the first keypress when starting a new game (ie w to walk or e to activate, etc.) always pauses the game; pressing ESC two times resolves this.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing the game to the end.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Driver:

Additional Comments

- The first time the game is started, the resolution is set to 1024x768. The GNOME panels are still visible when you are in the menu. When you change the resolution (in my case to 1680x1050) Episode One appears to hang (or get extremely slow). I need to restart the game and all is well and the new resolution is applied. Also no panels visible anymore. Tested configuration: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Geforce 9800 GT 1GB Driver version: 180.44 3 GB memory

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Slackware -current	Jan 13 2010	1.1.35	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Bartosz Debski
Show	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 27 2009	1.1.32	Yes	Yes		Platinum	John
Current	Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 18 2009	1.1.31	Yes	Yes		Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 25 2009	1.1.20	Yes	Yes		Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Mar 27 2009	1.1.17	Yes	Yes		Bronze	Night Nord

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
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

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HowTo / Notes

Half-Life 2: Episode One - Reactor room slowdown bug workaround

In case the game experience a huge slowdown to around 0.5 FPS, most probably you had hit so-called "some other (close) place displayed on the screen" bug. First time you may hit it is in the reactor room just before raiding down on a lift to the core chamber. There would a big screen displaying various parts of the reactor core room. This screen is the bug-trigger.

It was reported that the bug occurs only in case the "Offscreen Render Mode" is set to "backbuffer". To workaround the bug simply set ORM to "fbo" (or "pbuffer", if your GPU supports it) and the FPS will raise back to a playable values.

Keep in mind that setting ORM to anything other than "backbuffer" will break the game shaders dealing with refraction (water and alike) when the AA is on. Another unfortunate effect of setting ORM to "fbo" is that the performance level when using dxlevel 90/95 in Non-HDR mode will be very low, especially in areas where there are a lot of refracting surfaces. For now it seems that the best choice would be to turn off AA, set ORM to "fbo" and switch the game to the dxlevel 81 before entering the bug-triggering area. After successfully passing it redone the changes back to gain more FPS or better quality graphics.

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