[plug] Halflife Counterstrike under Wine

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi all,

Has anybody in the ether had any success playing a LAN game of Halflife
Counterstrike (or any Halflife mod) under Wine?

I've got the game itself running using the 20010112 release of wine,
with the directx patches available from transgaming.com. There are a few
glitches in the opening menus, and it doesn't play the sierra splash
screens, etc, but the game itself, using OpenGL accelleration, yields
quite good frame rates at 800x600 on my TNT2 Ultra.

However, I took my box along to a LAN party on the weekend, and could
not, for the life of me, get HL to contact a server running on a Windows
box. Similarly, if I started a game server on my box (Wine emulation,
not the linux native server), nobody on a windows box could contact it.
I was the only Linux guy at the party, and had to duck to dodge the
rotten fruit...

The network itself was working fine; I could ping any of the other
players from a linux terminal. 

I tried using a windows copy of PING.EXE under wine; when logged in as a
regular user, I got an error message saying "Can't use ICMP packets
unless logged in as root; Error code 5" (or something to that effect).
When su'd as root, PING.EXE worked fine.

Following this, I tried running Halflife as root, but this crashed the X
server...

Anyone got any hints, tips, or suggestions? The linux HL FAQ doesn't
seem to cover network play issues...

FYI, my box is a PIII-450, ne2k-pci network card, running redhat 7.0 +
latest ximian updates.

Many thanks
Russ Magee

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Russell Keith-Magee
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School of Computing, Curtin University of Technology
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