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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows 93

Posted by timothy from the man-this-is-a-long-party dept.
An anonymous reader writes Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has finally been released for Linux two years after its Windows debut. The game is reported to work even on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers, but your mileage may vary. When it comes to the AMD and NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA continues dominating for Linux gaming over AMD with Catalyst where there's still performance levels and other OpenGL issues.
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows

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  • TF2 (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:03AM (#47973867)

    Lately I've been addicted to Team Fortress 2.

    Runs *flawlessly* native under Linux. Fastest load times compared to windows.

    Such a blast.

    • Lately I've been addicted to Team Fortress 2.

      Runs *flawlessly* native under Linux. Fastest load times compared to windows.

      Such a blast.

      Conga Fortress 2 for the win!

      Anyway, back on topic... I do wonder if Valve will rename half the server .so files like they did for HL2:DM, DoD:S, CS:S, TF2, and L4D2. It tends to break server addons when they do that, and the only reason to do it because they link the server binaries against older GLIBC versions.

    • On my last AMD box running Windows 7, Team Fortress 2 would load within 10 seconds... How much time do you need to save?

      • The problem I had with running TF2 on Windows is that the game files would fragment quickly, forcing me to defrag every week or two to keep it running smoothly. Hence why I was ecstatic when it was ported to Linux. I suppose it's a moot point if you are using an SSD, but just for the record. When using HDDs I have always spent a lot less time listening to the thing crank away on Linux than on Windows.

        • You had bad fragmentation on Windows 7 using NTFS?

          • Very bad. Every time the game updated it would get worse. I hope ReFS is going to be available on Windows 9. NTFS was great ten years ago but it is really starting to show it's age.
        • Not sure if fragmentation is a problem any more with Steampipe. GCF files are not used any more. I don't know how VPK files store their contents.

    • Like a Linux zealot would ever state that Linux systems has any flaws to begin with.

      Linux is better then any OS in every way. In the ways it isn't it is because those are the features you don't need (until it gets them)

      You could say the same about Mac Fanboys or Windows Cheerleaders.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Lotana ( 842533 )

        Like a Linux zealot would ever state that Linux systems has any flaws to begin with.

        Grab popcorn, go to one of the systemd-related stories and watch them tear each other to pieces.

        Who said /. is not entertaining?

  • Awesome (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Agares ( 1890982 ) on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:08AM (#47973907) Journal
    It is great to see Linux gaining more traction when it comes to gaming. The number of games on steam that support Linux are getting quite numerous. Maybe we will eventually see Linux used as much as Windows for gaming in the future.

    • Re: (Score:1, Troll)

      by Trepidity ( 597 )

      What'd be even better is if Linux got traction with games where you didn't have to install the PoS that is Steam to play them...

      • Re: Awesome (Score:5, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:27AM (#47974115)

        You're absolutely right.

        Linux gaming cannot truly thrive until we can use EA's Origin as a platform.

      • Re:Awesome (Score:4, Informative)

        by theslof ( 2136128 ) on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:27AM (#47974117)
        Many of the games that are ported to Linux can be found DRM free onb other sites, like Desura [desura.com], GOG [gog.com] and the Humble Bundle store [humblebundle.com]. Most games are on Steam since that's the best way to get sales on PC.

        • Humble Bundle is weird : their stuff is time limited in when you can actually buy them. When the bundle trickles down to Slashdot and then to me finally deciding to look it up, it's ended.

          Quick look at GOG Linux section : half what I'm seeing is DOS games. Not native ports :). DOS games can be very demanding (still has to run 640x480 3D games as fast as a 16-year-old PC, maybe a recent 3.x GHz Intel CPU achieves that)
          Steam is half decent because you can somehow trust the game to work at all. Though even the

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Agares ( 1890982 )
        You don't have too, and some of us don't mind using steam.

        • No, you certainly do have to. Steam is a DRM system as well as a distribution system.

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Agares ( 1890982 )
            What I meant was that you do not have to use steam if you choose. There are ways to get games that are DRM free.

            • Of course there exist other games which are not DRM encumbered, but that's not what You don't have to means, in that context. Don't move the goalposts.

              You have to use Steam for games which

              1. 1) Are only made available through Steam
              2. 2) Depend on the Steam runtime for play, for DRM and/or multiplayer matchmaking etc

              • Re: (Score:1)

                by Agares ( 1890982 )
                Ok you are obviously just being a troll now. I am willing to admit that I typed one thing while thinkiing another, I made a mistake it happens get over it. You already know what I actually meant so with that I am done.

  • OpenGL issues (Score:3, Interesting)

    by phorm ( 591458 ) on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:13AM (#47973961) Journal

    What OpenGL issues, exactly? The only ones I've had recently are with some nvidia-specific stuff for surface mapping, but that was in a coding demo. For the actual games, modern AMD/Radeon drivers seem to do just fine, and are actually sometimes less of a pain than the nVidia ones for installation.

  • Re: (Score:4, Interesting)

    by kurkosdr ( 2378710 ) on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @10:13AM (#47973963)
    So, if you want to really take advantage of the hardware you 've paid for, you 've got to go Nvidia. All the others are basically frauds when it comes to Linux support. So, why so much Nvidia hate in the community? Isn't having a Linux system that's 99.9% open-source and has killer graphics better than having a system that's 100% open-source but doesn't allow you to take advantage of the GPU hardware?

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      For many people here open source is an important ethical decision, and a GPU driver is kind of a core component for an operating system.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Those people need to get laid.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward
          Since you're offering, bend over.
    • Because it's too late. We did all of the hard work before nVidia finally caved, and still they're not trying that hard.

    • What happened to ATI/AMD? I know the company open sourced its video drivers years ago. Why are they still crappy? :(

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by armanox ( 826486 )

        As of the beginning of this year, I would say that FGLRX works great, when it works. It was still a quirky driver to get it to install and run properly when I last used it (Feodra 19, Radeon HD 7750)

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by antdude ( 79039 )

          Bummer. I just use the provided closed binary driver from Debian stable. I wonder if it has ATI/AMD's closed fglrx binary drivers too.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by armanox ( 826486 )

            There have been issues with AMD not keeping up on current kernels (Fedora usually runs an up to date kernel, unlike Debian), and when AMD slips for months on it's monthly update it can be troublesome. Also, somewhere around the release of Fedora 19 the guy that maintained the driver (guy's with RPMFusion, which has most of the software that Fedora can't ship, kinda like Ubuntu's nonfree repos, but not actually a part of Fedora/Red Hat for legal reasons) basically stopped maintaining the package (I think th

    • It's all irrelevant anyway, AMDs Open Source support sucks, and hasn't been stable. Nouveau's Open Source support is actually better. Go look at the Mesa Matrix http://www.mesamatrix.net/ [mesamatrix.net] Nouveau supports more OpenGL features on their open source cards than AMD does. The only thing that's been holding the Nouveau cards back has been power management and even that's not a huge issue, http://nouveau.freedesktop.org... [freedesktop.org] notice that power management is almost complete on all current gen cards going right back to

      • Go look at the Mesa Matrix http://www.mesamatrix.net/ [mesamatrix.net] Nouveau supports more OpenGL features on their open source cards than AMD does.

        Both Nvidia and AMD recent drivers (r600 and radeonsi) are 100% green on all OpenGL features that are currently officially supported (OpenGL 3.x)
        They only have red spots for feature that are for OpenGL versions that aren't supported by mesa yet any way (OpenGL 4.x) - in other words, that's still getting worked on. And given the current pace of development, both cards will support all opengl 4.x feature with short time difference between each other.

        (Note: the case of r300 is a bit different. It's an older ca

    • Intel is NOT a fraud, except that the 3D hardware is not as powerful. Otherwise they are the best of the 3 (Nvidia, AMD, Intel), because they at least have a full open source stack.

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows

    You keep using that word [wikipedia.org]. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows

      You keep using that word [wikipedia.org]. I do not think it means what you think it means.

      ...and you should check a dictionary [merriam-webster.com] instead of an encyclopedia.

      • It's still the same description:

        premiere noun \same as 1premiere\
        : the first time a film, play, television show, etc., is shown or performed

        It premiered TWO YEARS AGO on Windows.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by vux984 ( 928602 )

          It premiered TWO YEARS AGO on Windows.

          Which is why this is its "premiere on Linux" instead of its "premiere".

          Seriously, your argument is ridiculous.

          Its like "correcting" someone who says "this is the first time I've ever drunk wine from a tin mug" by saying "you don't know what 'first' means, you drank wine from a glass years ago."

  • Considering it's multiplayer, it's important to consider how many people actually buy this, instead of just bragging about "Linux on the Desktop."

    Methinks Linux gaming is pretty niche at the moment, so any multiplayer game wouldn't benefit much from going Linux, unless there's cross-platform integration.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Obviously you can play against windows users when you're on linux. That goes without saying.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by armanox ( 826486 )

      It widens their audience. PC gaming covers anyone on a desktop/laptop running an Intel based processor, so adding Linux to the supported list adds them into the same crowds as the OS X and Windows gamers (and they play each other online, no division of platform there).

  • FINALLY! (Score:4, Funny)

    by tlambert ( 566799 ) on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @11:01AM (#47974497)

    FINALLY!

    It's the "two years later" of the Linux desktop!

  • I just purchased an NVIDIA card for my Linux gaming machine... I tried to get my AMD card to play games at an acceptable speed for months, but it's just not working out. AMD still is a bit ahead of NVIDIA for Windows (price/performance), but the ratio flips on Linux. My GTX 760 should arrive Thursday, whee!

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