Topic: CS in Linux
started by: incubus
And the only game I play in windows atm is Counterstrike.
Then a lightbulb appeared above my head:
And after a couple hours messing about, I've managed to get CS working in Linux! w00Tah!
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-- incubus
As I chase the leaves like the words I never find ...
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
HOW did you get it working? Was it 3D-Accelerated? Would my EAX continue to work?
(Probably not 
)
Anyway, congrats I suppose
Right now I'm trying to see about making this thing spoof browser tags, else the menus on detonate don't show up.
I still wish they would make some kind of port though, because it would probably be a lot faster. Interesting stuff anyways, I think i'll give it a try.
You guys knew about THAT ... right?
first of all, I had a base RH7.1 install. My GFX card is a geforce 2 mx.
Reading through the spiel, it seems that the drivers shipped with RH are crap, and that I should get the nvidia drivers.
So ...
Went to the site, downloaded them, set the runlevel to 3 and rpmd the drivers in as it said and changed the driver in XConfig-4 from "nv" to "nvidia".
Gritted my teeth, typed startX ...
BOOM
Couldn't find the kernel module 'NVdriver'! I was gutted. I swapped configs back over (i made a backup, i know how lame I am 
) and downloaded the kernel-driver source.
Compiled the source, switched configs, and woohoo! The X-Server came back up. Couldn't notice any difference REALLY though.
Secondly, I checked out the latest build of WINE from CVS. I compiled it WITH OpenGL support (something like ./configure --enable-opengl --prefix=/usr) and went off and had my lunch. ;P
I then went and made a wine.conf ( ~/.wine/config) and made a fake windows installation on my linux drive. I set up wine to play ball, and I had a working daily build of wine!
The next part was easy: simply go to the CDROM and type wine setup.exe
And hl got installed. it was slow as shit but it PLAYED!
then i remembered to set the video mode to OpenGL and it was almost as fast as windows! I was well impressed!
The sounds a bit lagged, I'm looking into this, but the rest works great! Even my scrollwheel to switch through weapons works!
The line to make it work in linux is
wine hl.exe -managed -- hl.exe -console -windowed -game cstrike
w00tah!
I didnt do this all myself tho, there was a lot on info on the net, chmod was along the right lines though.
Two docs helped me most of all:
< David McBride's Linux HL howto >
< NVidia Website - Linux Driver Section >
So Yes, it was accelerated, it r0cked. But Audio was a bit b0rked, but im gonna look into that.
Long live the < WINE > crew!
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-- incubus
As I chase the leaves like the words I never find ...
If anyone on here wants to do it, i'd be happy to help/talk them through it. My ICQ is 21984549.
Happy compiling! ;o)
Mike
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-- incubus
As I chase the leaves like the words I never find ...