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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...

  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: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.

    --
    GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
  6. FINALLY! by tlambert · · Score: 3, Funny

    FINALLY!

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