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Index of Games for Modern Linux

Games for Modern Linux Index Halo: Combat Evolved for Modern Linux Doom for Modern Linux Quake for Modern Linux Quake2 for Modern Linux Quake3 for Modern Linux Quake4 for Modern Linux and WINE Return to Castle Wolfenstein for Modern Linux Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for WINE Wolfenstein:ET for Modern Linux Unreal Gold for Modern Linux Unreal Tournament/UT99 for Modern Linux Unreal 2 on Modern Linux Unreal Tournament 2003 on Modern Linux  Unreal Tournament 2004 for Modern Linux Unreal Tournament 2004 for Modern Linux Unreal Tournament 3 Arena for Modern Linux Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on Modern Linux Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault on Modern Linux Call of Duty on Modern Linux Call of Duty: United Offensive on Modern Linux Additional Resources WINE Homepage Play On Linux Homepage Codeweaver's Crossover homepage Good Old Games GOG Linux Releases The "Judas™ does this run in Wine" thread PC Gaming Wiki Wide S...

Call of Duty on Modern Linux

What a pain in the ass to install using Crossover from the two-CD version, and by pain in the ass I mean it won't install at all. Call of Duty , a first person shooter released in 2003, spawned an entire franchise of COD games that persist to this day. Installing using Codeweaver's Crossover should be easy, but it's not. COD: United Offensive is an expansion pack for COD and the COD game must be installed before COD:UO can be installed. Crossover expects you to install the game through Steam, which works. I own the original discs and shouldn't have to pay for it again, but the copy-protection method keeps it from installing. As I understand it, the third step of the install where you must re-insert the first CD causes a Windows registry entry to be written that the game looks for to verify it was "installed". Without this entry, the game will not run. I found some info about registry entries for COD2 here . Maybe they can be applied to COD. And there ...