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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. Awesome by Agares · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re: Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're absolutely right.

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

    2. Re:Awesome by theslof · · Score: 4, Informative

      Many of the games that are ported to Linux can be found DRM free onb other sites, like Desura, GOG and the Humble Bundle store. Most games are on Steam since that's the best way to get sales on PC.

    3. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It had Minecraft before Microsoft got it on the Xbox. Related: Microsoft now maintains Linux games.

    4. Re:Awesome by RenderSeven · · Score: 4, Informative

      Related: Microsoft now maintains Linux games.

      That remains to be seen, actually...

    5. Re:Awesome by click2005 · · Score: 2

      That could change. Microsoft has shown time and again that they don't care about PC gaming. To Microsoft, DirectX is a tool to persuade customers to upgrade Windows & hardware when its rarely needed these days. Thanks to the newest consoles, PC gaming will be mostly stuck at 1080p on a mid range gaming PC for the next 5 years. Sure they'll support higher resolutions but with TV screen FOVs & UIs.

      Steam as DRM is as effective on Linux as it is on Windows and most games companies have realized that 'tied to an online account' is about as much DRM as most people will tolerate.

      With the platforms being so similar it should be easier to port games these days. If they're smart they'll write as much code as possible to be portable to between XB1 & PS4. Porting code to Linux should be much easier now that the PS4 is an x64 CPU running a FreeBSD derived OS. It wouldn't surprise me if games start to be released on PS4 & Linux but not on Windows.

      I'd love AMD to release a Mantle PS4 API for Linux.

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  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. Re: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  6. Re: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those people need to get laid.

  7. Re:Beta by VGPowerlord · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bugs can be reported here.

    You'd better hope that Valve pays more attention to it than the Source-1-Games bug tracker, which is basically ignored at this point.

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  8. FINALLY! by tlambert · · Score: 3, Funny

    FINALLY!

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

  9. Re:Counter-Strike Global Offensive Premieres On Li by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

    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.

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  10. Nouveau Status by DMJC · · Score: 2

    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/ 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... notice that power management is almost complete on all current gen cards going right back to the Geforce 3/4 series! (admittedly Geforce 3/4 has stalled in part, but the other cards are all close to completion) So the legacy support level is fantastic as is the current card support. Nouveau has been also very rapid at making all features available to the newest generation of cards very quickly. I expect that by this time next year, they will have working OpenGL 4.2-4.3 support, and power management will be completed. Whether Nvidia has posted meaningful contributions to the project or not is almost irrelevant. The reality is that open source Nvidia is coming and it's going to be great.