[cw-discuss] Crossover Games Demo problems

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Hey Mark,
>
>
>  >    OK, the installer gave me a warning on my Gentoo AMD64 machine. I
>  > know you don't officially support Gentoo (ah...come on!) ;-) but I'll
>  > report it anyway in case it's involved:
>
>  Well, we mostly like to give Gentoo users grief, but we mean it
>  in good fun <grin>.  You'll be happy to know that Stefan uses Gentoo,
>  and we give him lots of grief about it as well.
>

And our active little Gentoo community revels in the idea that we can
get a rise out of so many people! ;-)

>
>  > it is strongly suggested that in Gnome I should have a Windows Games
>  > menu item where I would find the game. I do not have that menu item.
>
>  Hmm.  That suggests that the install didn't work.  Mind trying Steam
>  and seeing if that makes a menu?

I didn't have access to our Steam ID and password so I tried Half
Life. The main game installed cleanly. However it then says that
updates might be available and when I try to download and install the
updates I'm given messages about how our Internet connection isn't
valid. The game CD was from a package of all the original games - Half
Life, Counter Strike, Opposing Force and I think one other. Anyway, my
CD says CD 1 on it.

After the Half Life install I do see the Windows Game menu item and
can get to Half Life.

When I try to start the game I have a black screen but see part of the
word 'Console' in the upper left. I hear the opening music. Eventually
the screen moves on the Half Life menu. If I click on New Game I hear
the first click but the game doesn't move on to play. The screen isn't
frozen. the mouse works but doesn't respond anymore. Normally, IIRC,
HL would start a video at this point but in this case it doesn't. No
video and no video music. I cannot see how to get out of this state
cleanly. Alt-Tab isn't working. I'm writing this email from a second
machine. Alt-Ctrl-BackSpace works and kills X completely.

When I come back into Gnome I get messages about how Nautilus cannot
work because of unexpected errors in bonobo. Clicking off on the
dialog seems to get me to my normal desktop. Logging out and back in
does not cause this message and everything looks normal.

I remind you that the easy way out would be to say this is an AMD64 machine.

I will test HL under standard Wine to see if it fares any better. I
think it will but don't know for sure so let's find out.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark

>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Jeremy
>