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Half Life Linux Native version has unusable menus
I tried Half Life and I found an issue preventing me from playing the game on the native linux version.
This does not happen in the Windows version running with Proton
@Rathmox its a client side problem with your specific distro/install and not a general problem on linux.
@Rathmox its a client side problem with your specific distro/install and not a general problem on linux.
Is it due to SDL ? I remember having issues with SDL on that PC but not on other ones.
This is most likely caused by problems with the resource files. Try verifying game files through Steam. If that fails reinstall the game.
This is most likely caused by problems with the resource files. Try verifying game files through Steam. If that fails reinstall the game.
I did not fix
This is most likely caused by problems with the resource files. Try verifying game files through Steam. If that fails reinstall the game.
I did not fix
Sam is right. Steam doesn't verify the resource folder properly. Just delete your "valve" folder completely and verify game files. That should fix it.
Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/3623#issuecomment-1835938922
I also tried reinstalling the game. I tried also your method and it does not fix.
As I said, this issue happens only on the Linux native version and not on the Windows version running through Proton
This issue might still be worth looking into. I have encountered the same problem when transferring a clean install of HL25 between computers running the exact same system (Debian 12). While there is no issue on the computer I had copied the game files from, the menu looks just the way OP described on the second computer. (I realize what I've done is non-standard, but I'm still curious to find out what's causing the problem.)
Note that I had previously installed HL25 through Steam on the second computer, in which case the menus displayed just fine, meaning that the problem cannot be related to the distribution or the specific system install.
@Jules451 which directorys did you copy exactly? 'native' steam relys on your local packages, so its a local prob. try using 'runtime' instead.
@fred0r Steam does not do anything in this. Half-Life operates independently from Steam and can be easily started without Steam
@fred0r Steam does not do anything in this. Half-Life operates independently from Steam and can be easily started without Steam
Only Half-Life 2 and Source games rely on Steam.
GoldSrc and Half-Life were designed to not be reliant on anything, so if the WON servers were offline for maintenance, the game could still run as normal, even without an Internet connection!
However, Half-Life 2 and Source rely on Steam ' besides the console version of the engine - for license things (probably), sure Half-Life 2 was probably going to use WON, but it ended up using Steam.
Even at that the way that you launch Half-Life without Steam is click the executable.
HL does expect to run in the Steam runtime environment for compatibility; running the executable outside of Steam isn't really supported. It's unclear whether the OP is running via Steam or not?
HL does expect to run in the Steam runtime environment for compatibility; running the executable outside of Steam isn't really supported. It's unclear whether the OP is running via Steam or not?
I'm running it from Steam with Steam runtime
