Comments on: How To: Run Team Fortress 2 (TF2), Portal, Half-Life 2, HL2 EP 1&2, and Counter-Strike In Ubuntu Using Wine

By: n1md4

n1md4 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:49:22 +0000

I’ve an nx8220; which the following spec:-

model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz
MemTotal: 2062744 kB
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]

Is this spec likely to be adequate to use with this hack?

By: Hooray

Hooray — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:58:44 +0000

For those of you who still can’t get this working, there’s now a package manager for Wine called wine-doors. All you need to do is install it.

sudo apt-get install wine-doors

Run it (wine-doors) and select the Windows software you want. For TF2 (or any Steam game) you need Steam, DirectX, and the Tahoma font. So you click “install,” next to those three items, wait a few minutes, and you’re done. Open Steam (it even adds itself under “games,” in the main menu and you can launch it from gnome-do), install your games, and go to town.

By: pl4y3r0n3

pl4y3r0n3 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:59:09 +0000

Ugh!! Too many big words! Now I must lay down somewhere.

By: Fee'e

Fee'e — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:17:36 +0000

Works, but not like a charm, I have serious performance issues… is there anyway I can tweak?

GPU: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570M
using the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.60 driver..

By: Terrence

Terrence — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:24:41 +0000

I love helpful tips like “lol use teh windowz!111!!”.

Here’s a better tip on the house: Stop buying games with only native Windows clients.

By: stackcats

stackcats — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:39:37 +0000

frustrated guy is frustrated

By: linux n00b

linux n00b — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:39:34 +0000

i spent a good 8 hours today trying to get this shit working. I have a pretty goddamned decent computer, if you ask me. 3.2GHz CPU, ATI 4890, 4GB DDR2, the works. I did plenty of installing through the terminal, spent at least an hour and a half copying ALL of my steam shit over to my new steam folder (after following EXACTLY every step in this tut first, CD’s and all, and having it fucking FAIL), and you know what? eight hours into it and i finally get to the loading screen. guess what type of general computer message i get when the loading screen finishes “sending client info?” some bullshit about vertex shader overload or some shit! i found a shit ton of reasons why linux isnt the norm when it comes to gaming.

it’s because it’s a fucking nightmare to set up.

I’m actually a pretty patient guy when it comes to setting up computers. the only reason i did this was because my MBR went corrupt and I thought this would be fun to do! boy oh boy, ive never been more in the wrong.

here’s a tip, on the house: if you’re a gamer, game on the platform,and by platform i mean windows. sorry, i know it sucks to get locked into the platform, but your alternative is a frustrating hell of error messages in unfamiliar territory. not only that, but if you actually kill one of the bugs, four more come to it’s fucking funeral.

i mean, i could have proceeded, continued to readjust and readjust my system until it worked, but be realistic. is your $20 copy of TF2 really worth the hassle?

to all of those who got it working, and working correctly even, congrats. that shit is cool. and to those who did it as simply as the guide made it seem, double congrats! but really, it’s easier to just download a cracked version of windows and use that. you dont need a tut for that, do you?

and you know

By: Lint

Lint — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:39:26 +0000

That’s because you don’t have the /media/cdrom0/ directory indeed. Be sure to have the cd-rom drive mounted some place, often is /mnt/cdrom or /media/cdrom.

Then try /mnt/cdrom/, /media/cdrom/ or whatever you feel like, /media/cd[TAB] or /mnt/cdr[TAB] are also good tries.

By: grillinman

grillinman — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:51:34 +0000

Why won’t this work for me? I’m stuck on the 2nd command, where you copy the files from disk to directory. It keeps saying
cp: cannot stat `/media/cdrom0/*’: No such file or directory

don’t know what i’m doing wrong

By: poepenopdewc

poepenopdewc — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:02:27 +0000

i have the same problem,
u need a up to date graphics card
(:-/)