The Operative: No One Lives Forever

What works

I was able to finish the game.

What does not

- In cut scenes the voice acting cropped the end of the dialogues

- I played it with qjoypad and a PS3 controller. I mapped the movement keys and the mouse (to look around) to the analog sticks. When I try to slide around corners with side steps so that I have earlier an overview what's behind the corner I have the problem that I cannot walk straight ahead anymore after the corner has passed. I have to release the analog stick (the one for movement) and then it's working again. I tested this also in System Shock 2 which runs on steam and here everything works fine.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The multiplayer mode was not tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

• 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.