{"id":343,"date":"2008-10-15T02:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/10\/15\/portal-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:15:24","slug":"portal-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/10\/15\/portal-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal on linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/10\/14\/portal-prelude\/\">Portal: Prelude<\/a> triggered me to finally try out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal_(video_game)\">Portal<\/a> under linux \/ wine. Actually the only games I played since I&#8217;m on linux are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanterror.net\">Urban Terror<\/a> and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3483\/\">Peggle Extreme<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 Don&#8217;t laugh, it was a Steam test. \ud83d\ude09 And I didn&#8217;t have any space to install anything bigger. Until I bought that 0.5TB drive a while ago, still didn&#8217;t fill that one up, so today I decided to try it out under opensuse 11.0 with KDE 4.1 and wine 1.1.6. I somehow messed up my steam install under 10.3 and since I got 15GB free on my suse 11 partition and up to date video drivers (since it is also a kde 4 tryout install), this seemed like an ideal environment. Indeed, it actually went very smoothly. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>install latest wine from build service<\/li>\n<li>install iexplore gecko replacement by surfing to an url: wine iexplore http:\/\/winehq.org<\/li>\n<li>download steam msi (exe no longer needed!) and run: wine start steaminstall.msi<\/li>\n<li>see the update fail and resume it manually: nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe <strong>or<\/strong> wine steamTmp.exe SelfUpdate &#8220;Steam.exe&#8221; 14<\/li>\n<li>create a desktopshortcut from steam. you have to use kde 4.1 folderview if you actually want to see it \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>run!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some screenshots to prove \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/portal1.jpg' title='Portal on linux \/ wine'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/portal1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Portal on linux \/ wine' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/portal3.jpg' title='Portal on linux \/ wine'><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/portal3.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Portal on linux \/ wine' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nWhile framerate seems okay and my savegames and profile seem intact, I did experience some graphical glitch: when looking through portals, sometimes white flicker occurs. I didn&#8217;t investigate any further as it&#8217;s late enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal: Prelude triggered me to finally try out Portal under linux \/ wine. Actually the only games I played since I&#8217;m on linux are Urban Terror and &#8230; Peggle Extreme. \ud83d\ude42 Don&#8217;t laugh, it was a Steam test. \ud83d\ude09 And I didn&#8217;t have any space to install anything bigger. Until I bought that 0.5TB drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/10\/15\/portal-on-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portal on linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}