Comments on: Play Half-Life and other Steam games with Wine

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:45:47 +0000

I believe most Valve games are built on the Source game engine. Half Life 2 is built on the source engine, so expansions and mods to it should work also. If I am correct in my theory, Team Fortress 2 should work aswell.

I read on Digg recently that the source engine is going to be ported to Linux “soon”.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:32:40 +0000

I can’t believe I formatted from Ubuntu, back to XP just because I couldnt find a way to get this to work.. And now I’ve found it

Thank you so much!!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:24:12 +0000

@ricardo
Open a terminal and type msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi
You need to be in the directory with the file of course.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:06:23 +0000

i cant install steam trough wine… steam is a msi application.. i need an exe..can u help?

By: Ralf

Ralf — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:23:00 +0000

You forget to mention that people need to get 'tahoma.ttf' from somewhere and put it in their virtual c:\windows\fonts.

That would be:
"~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts"

Anyways, you want to google for this file and put it in there. Otherwise you can't read any of the text in steam or half-life.

ALso you want to disable alsa. It will work otherwise, but OSS seems much more responsive.

All the games, Hl2, CS, HL2:Ep1, HL1, and the 10 mods I tried all seem to work.

Sin also works by the way. But other steam games are not garantueed to work, unless they are based on the source engine. (like the HL2 mods).

The loading of steam is slower, the running of the games faster. Weird, but true.