>> David Griffith wrote: >> > I'm not sure what you guys are stumbling over, but I just lauched Portal and it works fine except for some choppyness from a high load average. >> Portal and TF2 are two totally different games now. Yes they had the same engine to begin with, but that was long time ago. >> Valve added lots of extras to TF2, with each adding more problems to Wine. About a year ago I could run long demos with TF2 in offline mode. Now same demos play for 10-30 seconds and TF2 crashes. > >Portal doesn't work either! I doubt that HL2, HL2:Ep. 1, or HL2:Ep. 2 work either (I have the Orange Box). Even though I haven't bothered installing them because my bro is going to reformat my computer because it's all messed up. For example (This isn't a wine problem) My Synaptic Package Mangager doesn't work! >When I click on Software Updates, it says: >Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) >When I type anything into Software Management it says either: >Package cache could not be opened >or >Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) > :( HELP! :( >(Thanks so much to everyone who has helped so far! You have all been awsome! :D ) I just got here, and don't know what I'm talking about, but don't forget to undo the insidiousness of pulseaudio: sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf --then edit the following to: autospawn = no