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I use cedega to p-lay counter strike 1.6 at linux

Do you use the free CVS version, or the pay version? I tried installing the CVS one, but it says that the shell script is corrupted or invalid/missing ...

How stable and efficient is it to run XP games on linux? How much better do games play compared to XP on the same computer?

linux itself will run more stably than windows xp for games, but the games themselves can become quite unstable on linux.

For example, I sometimes run CS off my Windows hard drive through Linux, and this means that the game will crash every now and again. However, the rest of the OS keeps running.

While games run better on Windows, when they crash they can lock up your keyboard and screen with no option but unplugging the power.

It's really a matter of where you want the stability.

-pcweirdo.

Isnt CS engine built on the use of either OpenGL or DirectX API's,

since OpenGL is native to linux i would think whineHQ would have been a mor simple choice, or did u want to use the DirectX API to run CS?

CS can run DirectX, openGL or its own software based engine.

al_tyranny wrote:Do you use the free CVS version, or the pay version? I tried installing the CVS one, but it says that the shell script is corrupted or invalid/missing ...

Shell scripts are plain text so you can open it in vi (or another text editor) and comment out the checksum part. Just make sure your text editor doesn't mangle any binary bits (some installers have compressed archives appended to them).

-pcweirdo.

i tried to run cs under linux
with some emulators but
i didn't get work...
because iam a noob in linux
i hope this will get better

does someone knows if counter strike works in freebsd? thanks.

i just play cs:source at my spyware-full windows xp and i'm a happy person.

COol i use Ubuntu linux and play cs

do those programs work with cs source too?

heres the most complete compatibility db:
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

most of the games can be played, but most have also flaws. The flaws seems to increase when using ATI instead of nvidia gfx. Thats about the summery about a more detailed description of a few games Im too lazy to find the link now ^- ^.

De Kus wrote:heres the most complete compatibility db:
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

most of the games can be played, but most have also flaws. The flaws seems to increase when using ATI instead of nvidia gfx. Thats about the summery about a more detailed description of a few games Im too lazy to find the link now ^- ^.

Did you install the ATI drivers?
I installed them and games run fast and stable.

I never knew you could play ANY games on linux. Does that mean you can do almost anything you can do on win you can do on linux through emulation of somekind?