how do I play windows games on open suse?

Help, I wanna play a windows game (max payne 2 and half life 2) on opensuse, what should I do to get it to work.

I don't know where to start. Do I need wine or crossover linux?:'(

[John A]

Wine would be the place to start. You'll probably need Cedega to be able to run Half Life 2, however.
http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=maxpayne2
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/1555228

Ok, cedega isn't an option, I don't wanna buy anything.

that max payne link looks kool but it is so vague.

I've installed wine through the yast installer.

When I type in wine and the konsole I get:

Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit

when I type in wine - version I get:-

thwee@linux-25al:~> wine --version
Wine 0.9.24

But the link to the cd and setup.exe isn't working.

This is what I typed.

thwee@linux-25al:/> wine /media/hdd/setup.exe
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/thwee/.wine'...
ln: target `/home/thwee/.wine-e9SqqH/dosdevices/d:' is not a directory
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/home/thwee/.wine'.

[John A]

Make sure you get Wine working with something simple before attempting to run the latest and greatest game! It should come with something like Notepad.exe, see if that works first. I also recommend reading Wine's documentation; it's very helpful, and I'd also try out other tools like winecfg , which is a configuration program for Wine.

Ok, notepad.exe is working and so is winecfg.

But how do I get the setup.exe cd to work. Thanx

OMG joeprogrammer you are a freakin genius.

The game is a bit sluggish but it works and I didn't even have to install directx

Some screenies...

ici

Hey do ya think I can get Half life 2 working with just wine?

[jbennet]

use Cedega. Costs money but rocks for games - it uses a custom directx wrapper so you get good games performance

I know I won't be using that. No monie :(

And I heard there are still issues with some software, but it is worth buying if only because some of the knowledge accrued goes back into the wine project.

Yay!

[John A]

OMG joeprogrammer you are a freakin genius.

Every once and a while I say the right thing.

Hey do ya think I can get Half life 2 working with just wine?

Well, I did mention using Cedega in the first post, but after looking in the Wine AppDB, it appears that the demo at least will run with a bronze rating, while the retail version runs at a silver rating:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=2095

It's worth a try if you haven't already.