The Operative: No One Lives Forever

What works

Installer

The Game - Gameplay and Sound

What does not

Screen Configuration - Only worked in 800x600 window screen

Swapping CDs when installing in Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit) was hard to find out how to do it. It took a while to sort out.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing the game for more than 30 minutes

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

How I got it to work in Ubuntu 10.10 Insert Disk 1 Terminal > sudo mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom Terminal > wine /cdrom/SETUP.exe Selected "Full install" Terminal > wine eject -a Terminal > winecfg ( to find out drive letter to continue install path , my case it was e:\ ) Insert Disk 2 Terminal > wine eject -a Insert Disk 1 Install finnished (no errors) To load the game : Note : my install was in the following directory /home/alex/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Fox/No One Lives Forever In Terminal > cd .wine/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files/Fox/No\ One\ Lives\ Forever/ Then wine lithtech.exe -windowtitle "No One Lives Forever" -rez NOLF.rez -rez NOLF2.rez -rez NOLFdll.rez -rez NOLFl.rez or wine lithtech.exe $(for f in $(ls|grep -i rez$); do echo "-rez $f"; done) Note : I could not set the screen to anything bigger than 800x600 as it crashed the game. Wine was setup to emulate a window and OSS sound, Windows XP selected.

• 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.