How do I run counter strike on linux? (client)

net_keeper

Hy,
I would like to run counter strike for linux.

I saw in their website that they have a version, I dont wanna use WineX..

What should I download and should I need to use my original HalfLife CD? (cd for windows)
??

Eyal

Mimamau · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:55 am Post subject:

Just emerge wine, mount your Halflife-CD and run wine SETUP.EXE...

net_keeper · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:04 am Post subject:

ormi · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

Wrong, wine can run directx (it has built in dx-support (dx8.1 or 8.0)) applications. CS has reported to work with wine almost perfectly.

senectus · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 534

net_keeper · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:36 am Post subject:

hjlane3 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:30 pm Post subject:

Wine plays HL/CS just fine, if not much better, than winex does.
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ormi · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject:

mcapozzi · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 25 Location: Rochester, NY

Half-Life based games support OpenGL and DirectX rendering. Just tell the cstrike.exe executable to run in OpenGL mode by using the following command-line: "wine cstrike.exe -gl -gldrv Default"

Wine can run DriectX apps (but they don't run nearly as fast as OpenGL apps).

I use WineX (small price to pay to not have to reboot into Windows) and it works great. Wine works just as well for Counter Strike.

-Mike

PS-Next time, search the darn forums, this has already been posted to death.
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Lovechild · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

couldn't someone write a step by step guide to playing CS (I dunno why people even bother - the game sucks IMHO) but getting these dupes each few weeks is just annoying.

So who's up for the challenge (and the fame) of doing a guide so simple your mother could install CS on her Gentoo machine - the guide should of course go in documentation, tips and tricks.

FIGHT DUPES !!!

mkenk · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

I don't think a guide will get published, just because the problem is at the same time too simple and too complex. Just to get CS running, all you gotta do is emerge wine, mount the cd then wine /path-to-cdrom/setup.exe. It installs where you want it, then just wine hl.exe and start games.

Now, if there was a guide for how to set up the voice stuff and connect using xqf and all those things, that'd be a long, and ultimately, pointless endeavour. Pointless, simply because next wine might break the menus, or might not work with the upgrading programs from Sierra, or might not work with voice. Search the forums, plenty of talk of all these things, and it all seems to depend on wine version, so a howto might become obsolete in a month.

If you are really in dire need of a howto, I think this is as close as it gets. Helped me, back in the day.

Good luck, and if you get stuck, specific questions will be answered on forums.

Moled · l33t Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635

I just installed it and it went fine

the game starts up ok, but when I try to start a new game it says to insert the cd which is inserted and mounted

the config etc is ok, it can read in other games

beejay · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:12 am Post subject: