Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:30:37 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Aaron Gibson <agibson@confabulator.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Counter-Strike, Wine and FreeBSD Message-ID: <cb52064205081600305a82fbd6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4300FEFC.6070309@confabulator.net> References: <cb52064205081512005ea31a63@mail.gmail.com> <4300FEFC.6070309@confabulator.net>
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I use wine-20050725 from ports. You know, I also have problems with fonts in CS. Sometimes they all work flawlessly, sometimes squares are displayed instead of some of them - but it has nothing to do with wine fonts or X fonts, because all fonts in CS are bitmap files located somewhere in the valve folder. I think the only thing in the config that matters in this case is this: [x11drv] "ScreenDepth" =3D "16" "Managed" =3D "N" "Desktop" =3D "1024x768" "UseDGA" =3D "Y" "UseXVidMode" =3D "Y" "UseTakeFocus" =3D "Y" "DXGrab" =3D "N" "DesktopDoubleBuffered" =3D "Y" But in fact I'm not sure all fonts are displayed fine with this. CS launches with virtually any settings here - that's what I'm sure of. I know about http://cedega.firepipe.net/ (and btw, Cedega is free without its copy-protection extensions), but it seems that wine is still much easier to set up on BSD than Cedega. I have never paid for a piece of software in my life (except for donations to some open-source projects), but I'm ready to give the guys $15 if they cure me of dependancy from windows. [I was also going to buy OSS sound drivers as they stated support for SoundMax, but I downloaded a trial - and SoundMax wasn't in the list of FreeBSD drivers, what a pity]. Yep, there are many great games that run smoothly on FreeBSD without any tribal dances. I've been enjoying Nexuiz for the last few days. But I really want to get CS1.5 going - it's not just a game for me, it's a place where I can regularly meet my friends :-) Andrew P. On 8/16/05, Aaron Gibson <agibson@confabulator.net> wrote: > quick question, I'm guessing you used wine in ports? I never seemed to > be able to get the fonts to work properly with Counter-Strike 1.5. Can > you post your wine config file? >=20 > The alternative was/is cedega, but I felt more inclined to boot windows > than pay even more money to get a game to work (my .02) >=20 > Props to ID and epic for supporting alternative platforms. UT* and > Quake/Doom series work very well as I understand it (I played UT2004 and > QuakeIII on FreeBSD with great success) >=20 > --Aaron >=20 >=20 > Andrew P. wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I'm sorry to bother you all guys, but this issue has really become a > > crusade for me :) > > > > I'm trying to play Counter-Strike 1.5 on FreeBSD - over network > > > > The easy part was to install wine, closed-source nvidia drivers, > > launch CS1.5 - and even play on the local listen server with some > > bots. Mouse was not very responsive, but overall performance was > > great. It should be noted that CS1.5 did not need any native dll's - > > only wine's built in modules. > > > > The problems start when you try to connect to a network server. It > > would just hang. It took me three days of messing with wine, googling, > > and meditating - to finally decide to ask for help at > > freebsd-questions :) > > > > Things I tried: using virtually all combinations of native dll's from > > Win98 and WinXP, trying each and every option in .wine/config, trying > > all kinds of CS1.5 options, etc. > > > > Things I didn't try yet - they would require some expertise with > > wine/freebsd: careful debugging of relays and messages, building wine > > from cvs (port is not that old), IPX instead of IP (wild idea), etc. > > > > Come on, people, could somebody help me with this? CS is the single > > most popular FPS game out there. I could just give up and fall back to > > Linux/Cedega, but that just wouldn't be cool :) I'm sure that if we > > sort it out with CS1.5, Steam and Source will just be a matter of > > time. And some hundreds of geeks won't have second thoughts about > > FreeBSD on their desktop/laptop computers. > > > > I set up a separate Category on my forum in case anyone needs it: > > http://www.csme.ru/forum/ > > > > > > Thanks guys, > > Andrew P. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >=20 >
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