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Re: Counterstrike Source Overhaul

3vi1 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:31:22 GMT

Yeah, I'm hoping the same thing but trying to keep my expectations in check. Valve's silence (rather than outright denial) plus the partially-functioning alpha version of Steam for Linux found on their site shows that at least they're considering it. They probably don't want to commit to anything because they have limited resources working on it and no idea when/if it will ever be complete. I'm thinking X-mas would be a great release date, but it might be X-mas 2012 if it's just one guy working on it in "spare" time.

A Linux release is something that would make a lot of sense for Valve - more so than for a lot of other companies. I've seen other indie games ported to Linux where the additional sales more than pay for the port, and these are single games using unique engines. It seems like Valve is in a good spot to make a lot of money if they've got an orangebox version of Source for Linux waiting in the wings. Plus, it would prime Steam as a distribution channel of 3rd party for-pay Linux software.

Oh well, we'll just have to wait to see what happens and keep using Wine or dual-booting until then.

Re: Orange Box $8.00!

3vi1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:51:59 GMT

Okay... at $10, even I couldn't resist buying it. I'll probably only ever use it to test for Wine regressions, but maybe the kids will play it. :p

Here's one thing I didn't know about Steam: If you buy a bundle package like this, and you already own some of the games (I already owned HL2, because it came with a video card I bought ages ago), steam allows you to "gift" a copy of that game to another account. So I gifted HL2 to my wife's steam account and kept all the other stuff on mine.

I still don't like that you can't use multiple games from the same account concurrently on two computers, but I guess they don't want groups of friends to create "lending library" style accounts.

Re: Left 4 Dead

3vi1 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:14:37 GMT

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I ran it at max settings + 4xAA 8xAF at 1920x1080. I didn't have a framerate display, but it was fine. This was with only one of my Radeon 3850s. It's a Source game, so it's not stressful.

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I have a 9800GTX+, which should should smoke the 3850 under Linux, so I'm guessing that you're talking about under Windows.

The real problem with running it under Linux is that Wine's DirectX implementation still needs to be optimized for any game that uses versions later than 8.1. I found that I could run it with shaders and settings set much higher if I force the game to detect 8.1 by using "-dxlevel 81" in the launch parameters. This is pretty much the norm for Source games at the moment.

It's weird and a little disappointing, because other games like EverQuest and City of Heroes run at the same speed as Windows (if not faster). I'm sure it will be worked out in time, though.

Re: Left 4 Dead

3vi1 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:24:18 GMT

I downloaded and installed the demo via Steam. Runs pretty slow under Linux+Wine unless you dial down the video settings, but it sure does look good.