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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. TF2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lately I've been addicted to Team Fortress 2.

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

    Such a blast.

  2. OpenGL issues by phorm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re: by kurkosdr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?