Request: Any chance of Half-Life 2 being added?

[CraigsBar]

This has been proven to work on Raspberry Pi 5 when running Ubuntu OS, Would it be possible to incorporate it here for easy installations on devices running Raspberry Pi OS.

[jmcerrejon]

I tried with no success recently. Could you provide me any link with resources about it?

[actraiser30]

Help on the way

1st
https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/howto/how-to-install-half-life-2-halflife-2-on-raspberry-pi/

2nd
https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine

[CraigsBar]

I got it to compile on Raspberry Pi OS. But the graphics and character set are screwed up.

[actraiser30]

Try this in config.txt

Change the dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d

To dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

And the opposite

[CraigsBar]

Unfortunately that made no difference to the corrupted graphics/text.

[actraiser30]

Try that,if you compile it in 64 bit OS do it in 32bit OS or the opposite again.
Or if you did it in pi4 try bullseye or buster os

[jmcerrejon]

I already tried it (you can check this open post at my Patreon).

My issue was I only got 10-15 fps and glitches in graphics, as you commented.

For sure, there is some library used on RPi OS that is working on Ubuntu.

[CraigsBar]

Interestingly I created an ubuntu install on an SD card this morning and compiled it there (my Pi's both normally boot from NVMe SSD's) and I get the same issues. Tonight I will try to get it to compile on my OpenSuSE laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T460 so nothing special) and see how that goes. I wonder if it is a wider issue with the source on github and recent Linux environments.

[actraiser30]

What about try it in wine from pi apps?

[CraigsBar]

I find valve proton is more game compatible than native wine, and unfortunately that crashes at startup.

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[actraiser30]

What about testing counterstrike source?

[actraiser30]

Tested various games with wine on Pi4 even painkiller was playable if you lower the graphics
Nosferatu was very slow thought.
Age of mythology and age of empires 3 had the same issue with the font's displaying incorrect

[actraiser30]

What about this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-W1Axn8TM

[jmcerrejon]

I think it’d be great to focus on running native apps on PiKISS without relying on Wine or Proton for games. That way, we can keep things simple and straightforward! 😉

[actraiser30]

Native ports are better, yes,what about assault cube game can be build/work??

[CraigsBar]

So it's the same on OpenSuSE on intel x64 (core i5)

[Lohann]

Hi, I believe the Graphics issues is due an update in the Half-life from Steam, which is not supported by the current version of the source-engine:
nillerusr/source-engine#397

Must test using a version prior to November 16 2024 release.

[Lohann]

Is possible to download an older version from Steam from here:
https://steamdb.info/depot/221/manifests/

Using this tool:
https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

[Lohann]

Finally, I manage to get half-life 2 working natively on my Rapsberry PI 5 with Ubuntu 24.04 64bit:

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y \
    unzip \
    wget \
    git-all \
    build-essential \
    pkg-config \
    ccache \
    libsdl2-dev \
    libfontconfig1-dev \
    libopenal-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libpng-dev \
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
    libbz2-dev \
    libedit-dev


# Clone source-engine
cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/nillerusr/source-engine.git --recursive
cd source-engine

# Build Source-Engine, takes about ~22min to build on my RPi 5
python3 ./waf configure -T release --prefix=hl2 --build-games=hl2 --disable-warns
python3 ./waf build -p -v 
python3 ./waf install

# Download Half-Life 2, only the release from 17 November 2023 works:
# https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/12694556/
# Obs: Requires an steam account with the game.
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases/download/DepotDownloader_2.7.4/DepotDownloader-linux-arm64.zip
unzip DepotDownloader-linux-arm64.zip
./DepotDownloader -app 220 -depot 221 -manifest 3666218991449795038 -username <steam_username>

# Copy files to the Half Life 2 directory
rsync -ah --progress ./depots/221/16557524/hl2/* ~/Downloads/source-engine/hl2/hl2
cp -r ./depots/221/16557524/platform ~/Downloads/source-engine/hl2/

# start the game
cd ~/Downloads/source-engine/hl2
./hl2_launcher

It works on 60 fps at low settings, and 30 fps with all texture and sharder high, the antialiasing and filtering must be off.
Type cl_showfps 1 in the console to display the FPS

[jmcerrejon]

Thank you so much, @Lohann!

After encountering some issues with the commands I was using, your guide was incredibly helpful. I have successfully compiled the engine and obtained the correct game data files on Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit.

Now, I need to put those commands into a user-friendly format for PiKISS users. I hope to accomplish this soon.

Thanks again!