i need advice

[mja123]

i just installed wine and i tried to run half life 2 and every time i try to run it it goes back to the desktop and its almost as if the game isn't running idk what else to do because i've followed all of the appDB guides and tricks and troubles shotting plz help.

[John Drescher]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:13 AM, mja123 <[email protected]> wrote:

i just installed wine and i tried to run half life 2 and every time i try to run it it goes back to the desktop and its almost as if the game isn't running idk what else to do because i've followed all of the appDB guides and tricks and troubles shotting plz help.

Do you have a recent version of wine? Is your opengl setup correctly?
Do other games work with your wine setup? Did you try running the game
from the shell? Were there any errors displayed?

John

[vitamin]

i just installed wine and i tried to run half life 2 and every time i try to run it it goes back to the desktop and its almost as if the game isn't running idk what else to do because i've followed all of the appDB guides and tricks and troubles shotting plz help.

Please read HOWTOs for Steam and Half-Life 2 on AppDB:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1554
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2890

There are few possible reasons why game might not start.