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Evok3 wrote: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?

Its just that most developers are to lazy to copy the source onto a linux computer and compile it for linux and make a .run installer

i couldn't get counter strike source to work with winex on gentoo....

bart416 wrote:Its just that most developers are to lazy to copy the source onto a linux computer and compile it for linux and make a .run installer

I don't suppose you could copy it like you said yourself could you? provided you knew about programming or a guide, obviously.

acually most developers don't bother porting the code to linux, since mot many people use linux.

Evok3 wrote:

bart416 wrote:Its just that most developers are to lazy to copy the source onto a linux computer and compile it for linux and make a .run installer

I don't suppose you could copy it like you said yourself could you? provided you knew about programming or a guide, obviously.

In most cases if its a decend engine its just copy and paste work.
If its crappy stuff that uses directx you can get quite some trouble.

do you use play2ponit ?

I'm not hire about CS on linux ) but ... I don't know .. maybe

Hmm... I like to play CS, but the ATI Xpress card that is in my laptop is not very happy with linux. I can get the ATI binaries to install and work, but acceleration is currently dead, so 3D gaming in general is pretty much dead.

Anyone know when Xorg 6.97.0 will come? Hopefully with 6.9/7.0 there will be good native support for this card.

I used to have linux on my PC but a 2-3 months ago. A friend of mine is playing CS under linux with Wine or Winex. It's not a Linux version of Counter Strike, he just run the ".exe" with Wine and playing with no problem. Try and tell us what happen.

as someone said before, i play cs 1.6 on my spyware-full, instable and stupid windowsXP and i'm a very happy person

I hate CS. Such a pointlessly stupid game.

Urban Terror or Americas Army.

xSpRiGGaNx wrote: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?

However, if the game is designed to run on a platform, it will always run with greater stability on its mother platform. WINE could emulate windows excellently, but the potential for error is much greater because you are adding more layers of software to the mix.

nighthawk wrote:

xSpRiGGaNx wrote: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?

However, if the game is designed to run on a platform, it will always run with greater stability on its mother platform. WINE could emulate windows excellently, but the potential for error is much greater because you are adding more layers of software to the mix.

To answer the question: CS is built on top of the Half-Life engine, which in turn is based on the Quake 1 engine. This also means that it doesn't support any graphics interface directly, but rather uses wrapper interfaces to make it possible to support almost any kind of rendering library, for which an appropriate Half-Life plugin exists.

Yes, it can render graphics, but it still has to call up binaries and library files, in which you require emulation of some kind to get the Windows installation of the HL program installed on a Linux machine.

nighthawk wrote:Yes, it can render graphics, but it still has to call up binaries and library files, in which you require emulation of some kind to get the Windows installation of the HL program installed on a Linux machine.

I just wanted to answer his first question, whether CS is using any graphics library directly. =)