Counter-Strike and transgaming's winex

[bterry13]

Hi..

After a lot of trouble shooting and help from this community :D I got transgaming's winex installed. My main reason for installing it was for Counter-Strike, and it seems I have ran into more trouble with it.

I installed Half-Life: Counter-Strike using winex. It seemed to go flawlessy. Now, I can't find where Counter-Strike was installed. I checked the ~home/wine/fake_windows/Program Files. Anyways, I proceeded by running the CD again and merely choosing "Play Counter-Stike" After doing this (I have triedc it twice), it changes the resolution and (from what I can make it out to be) it looks like my desktop enlarged, cracked, and smeared. Then, it freezes. Any suggestions with my two problems?

[bterry13]

^bump^ :cool:

[Massive Attack]

You didn't install Direct X did you?

[bterry13]

No, it came with winex. I think....

[Massive Attack]

Try this to get the game running...

$ cd TransGaming_Drive/Program Files/Game/
$ winex Game.exe

And about the resolution, what kind of video card do you have? If you installed Direct X, I would uninstall it, because winex and Direct X don't work together.

And sorry, I know I am not being much help. :(

[bterry13]

I have a TNT2Ultra, and I have installed the latest linux drivers from Nvidia. I haven't installed directx, unless it came with a package or something.

Also, I can't find the game file anywhere on my hard drive. I installed the game, but to run it, I have to go into the cd folder and type "wine setup.exe" Then, it pop ups the install, which has an option to "Play Counter-Strike." That is how I have been accessing it when it freezes. Nevertheless, I went into my 'home/brandon/wine/fake_windows/Program Files' directory and nothing is in there.

[Massive Attack]

Have you used a patch to upgrade to the newest version?

[bterry13]

No, I guess I could try patching it. I just figured I would see if it worked before I patched it.

[Massive Attack]

I think that will fix it. :)

[bterry13]

Alright.. thanks.. I'll keep you posted. :D

[bwkaz]

Try /.../fake_windows/Sierra maybe?

Otherwise, there should have been a dialog when you first installed HL to pick where to put it. If you translate from Windows drives and stuff to the Linux directory, that should help.

If all else fails, look at the folder that the update is installing into.

[bterry13]

When it is installing, it says it's installing to C:/Program Files/Valve, but I checked ~home/wine/fake_windows/Valve, and it doesn't exist. Nothing exists in there.

[bterry13]

IO just fount out, it did install to the C: directory... should have thought of that earlier, but I didn't know I had one! :rolleyes:

[bterry13]

Today, I tried installing the wine update. The problem I am running into is this: when I execute the install file (wine 1005.exe) it will only execute when I am no in root. When I'm not in root, the files won't install, though. Here is the error when I try to execute the install from root.

Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
Could not stat /cdrom (No such file or directory), ignoring drive D:
Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/brandon; starting in windows directory.
wine: cannot find '1005.exe'

[bwkaz]

As root, copy /home/brandon/.transgaming/config to /root/.transgaming

If you don't have a .transgaming directory in your home directory, then try .wine instead (replace both .transgaming's with .wine).

Explanation: it looks like 1005.exe isn't in a directory that has been mapped to a Windows drive, so Windows can't find it to run it. The mappings are defined in ~/.wine/config (or ~/.transgaming/config), so copying /home/brandon's over to /root's should sync the configuration stuff.

[bterry13]

Alright, thanks, but I'm sort of confused! :eek: Not with your response, just with the whole process. Therefore, I'm going to start from scratch.

First off for some background information: I am installing 'Half-Life: Counter-Strike' from a cd. I have the following partition directories: /mnt/cdrom (cdrom drive with half-life), /mnt/disk (Linux drive), /mnt/floppy (floppy), /mnt/windows (fat32 partition). I am running winex, which is located in the folder /home/brandon/wine.

Where do I want to install the actual Half-Life: Counter-Strike? In the fat32 partition or the Linux parititon?

I just listed the above information, so I could understand a little clearly :D I think I am just confusing myself, and I'm not sure exactly where everything should go, as I'm new to winex. I'll probably have more questions along the way, so I thank you in advance for baring with me.

[bwkaz]

You'll want it somewhere in the fat32 partition.

WineX's setup looks for any fat32 partitions you may have, and maps them to Windows drive letters (for example, on this machine, /mnt/windows is C:, and /mnt/slave is D: ). When I install a program using Wine, and tell the program to put itself on my C: drive, it actually ends up at /mnt/windows/.... because of Wine's directory <--> drive letter mapping. Later, I go into /mnt/windows/.... and run "wine --winver=win98 -- programname.exe"

[bterry13]

That's what I assumed it would do, but it didn't. When I installed Half-Life: Counter-strike, it said it was installing to C:/Program Files/Valve. It installed on my windows partition as /c/Program Files/Valve. (It took me forever to find this)

P.S. Right now I'm going to try to manually tell it to install to my fat32 drive. Come to think of it, my fat32 drive is E. That was probably the problem. My Linux drive is C :rolleyes:

[bterry13]

Actually, I was wrong in that post. There are four drives I can choose from when installing counterstrike. They are as follows:
C: This seems to be my /home/brandon/wine/fake_windows directory. When I try to install here, it says something about the "media," and doesn't let me install.
D: This is my cdrom drive.
F: This is my Linux drive.
E: This is the weird drive. I am pretty sure that it is my fat32 drive. The ironic thing is, when I am installing Counter-Strike, the counter-strike selector just shows the folder Program Files/Valve. On the other hand, when I am viewing the drive in terminal or with Nautilas, it shows my normal Windows contents without the Valve folder.

[trilarian]

The actual partition doesn't matter that much. I have a windows fat32 partition, but I installed my games in the transgaming windows directory that is on my linux partition. I had trouble getting warcraft III to run and this solved my problem. Not sure if it will help your problem, but it can't hurt to try. Copy msvrct.dll, msvrct10.dll, msvrct20.dll, msvrct40.dll, and regsvr32.exe from you /mnt/windows/system32 directory to your fake windows directory. Then when starting wine, try "wine ~/game.exe --winver win2k -opengl" without the quotes. If this doesn't work, run "glxgears". This will render a gear image and printout fps. You should have a min of 500 to run games. I got about 1600 fps.

[animex2]

Originally posted by Massive Attack
Try this to get the game running...

$ cd TransGaming_Drive/Program Files/Game/
$ winex Game.exe

And about the resolution, what kind of video card do you have? If you installed Direct X, I would uninstall it, because winex and Direct X don't work together.

And sorry, I know I am not being much help. :(

Does Half-Life install automaticly with Direct X or is it installed on wondows? If its on windows i may have to start using a Fake Windows drive. This is my setup -

Non Wine -

Drive 1 - 20 gig of NTFS

Drive 2 - 60 gig of Fat32
20 gig of linux drives

I have all my programs on the Fat32 drive and have a fake windows drive with all the windows files (beacuse the NTFS is read only and i cant write temp files and such) So im running on Fat32, should i try installing Half-Life onto Fake WIndows without direct X being installed?

(BTW I know this post is old)

[trilarian]

Are you using wine or winex? A fake windows does not need to be on a windows type partition...ex. it could be on ext3 or reiserfs. Point being, unless you have the fat32 partition set like a shared partition that both OS's can write too, you might want to use a native linux type format for better reliability. Anyway, don't install anything through windows. Install everything with winex. DirectX should be an option in the install and it is normally never good to install directx. You can find per game support for all supported and testing games here (http://www.transgaming.com/) . And for halflife, this is a good site (http://lhl.linuxgames.com/). Post on the transgaming site, they are very helpfull.

[animex2]

alright

i have the Fat32 partition as Read/Wright for Windows and linux

NTFS is copyrighted by microsoft and its impossible (i think) for linux to be able to Wight on it.

The reason for the Fat32 is so i can play games on liunx and windows. If i install without direct x for half life, will it still be playable in windows?

Other games like Quake III (i know there is native version, im playing it fine in winex) i can play in both fine. It it just Half-Life with the direct x problem?

[trilarian]

I may be steering you wrong but my expierence has been to make two installations and just copy the saved games back and forth when I switch OS's. You want winex to do the install for linux, simiraly you want window's ISS to install and register the windows installation.