How do I install Half-Life/Counter-Strike/Steam?

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johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:50 am

Hey, I'm new to Linux, and I never knew that Steam was actually available for Linux. I am pretty amazed, but yea anyway.

Can someone guide me through of how to get a hold of Steam and install it. As well, what other games are available on Linux? I know Q3 is, i have the Windows version, I would probably install that as well if I knew how.... PLEASE HELP!!!!

nadir-san · Post by **nadir-san** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:53 am

its not available, there is no linux port,
you can try to get it running through wine.
Last i checked though, they had some code in it to stop winex from running it.
It is definately possible to get it running in wine, but difficult
check http://linux-gamers.org , they have howtos and stuff.
they also have a cvswinex available.
I only ever play it at lans, so what I do is I get one of my mates to share his folders and, download the whole thing, straigth of his hard drive. then i run it with cvswinex, simple solution.
Im not a 'cs' player myself, i just like shooting cs lamers from time to time :p

johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:04 am

So what exactly is cvswinex? Is that something that runs Windows programs?

Jon Beilin · Post by **Jon Beilin** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:52 am

wine stands for wine is not an emulator. it is a wrapper that translates win32 API functions. winex is a commercial fork of wine that has better directx support. cvs stands for concurrent versions system, so cvswinex is the latest cvs build of the winex wrapper. *

so in short, yeah, cvswinex is something that runs windows programs.

* not meant to sound patronizing, just trying to explain everything.

COiN3D · Post by **COiN3D** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:03 pm

wine stands for wine is not an emulator

Sure, but everybody calls it an emulator.

So what exactly is cvswinex? Is that something that runs Windows programs?

There are three differences:

Wine is the "normal" version. With a bit luck you will be able to run Steam, too, but it is more pedantically.

WineX is developed & optimized just for games. The problem is, it is not free. You will have to buy it for $5 per month. For more information look www.transgaming.org

WineX-CVS is the free version of WineX but there are not as many games supported as with wineX.

fluzz · Post by **fluzz** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:33 pm

im in more or less the same boat

got cedega installed but every time i try to install steam it says its shutting down and throws errors at me

PZoned · Post by **PZoned** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:15 pm

yeah... the new installer will not install steam in cedega... either dig up an old installer, or install it in windows or something and copy and paste

meyerm · Post by **meyerm** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:55 am

Hi,

I used cedega 4.0 with the SteamInstall.exe from steampowered.com just an hour ago and it work flawlessly

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johnnyICON · Post by **johnnyICON** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:35 pm

PZoned wrote:yeah... the new installer will not install steam in cedega... either dig up an old installer, or install it in windows or something and copy and paste

Well I have Steam installed on a NTFS partition which I have mounted. So just copy it over to a Linux part. and fireup WineX?

simulacra · Post by **simulacra** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:50 pm

I wrote an install guide a while back for CS and Steam located here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-16 ... guide.html

Take a look and see if it helps with some of your issues.

Sim

simulacra · Post by **simulacra** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:50 pm

I wrote an install guide a while back for CS and Steam located here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-16 ... guide.html

Take a look and see if it helps with some of your issues.

Sim

Drag0n · Post by **Drag0n** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:46 pm

nadir-san wrote:its not available, there is no linux port

What exactly is games-server/halflife-steam in portage?

Cheers,
dra

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:09 pm

Um, the game server for half-life/steam!

Remarkable how they name things!

Drag0n · Post by **Drag0n** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:28 pm

Caboose wrote:Um, the game server for half-life/steam!

Remarkable how they name things!

Remarkable how they describe them, too:

Description: client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program

This doesn't really sound like "Game Server for Half-Life/Steam" to me.

Cheers,
Drag0n

grimzy · Post by **grimzy** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:40 am

If you're a 'pro gamer' then just forget CS in linux, unless you have 0day hardware

But if you're happy with 30-80fps, (with FPS drops _all the time_, which is horrible for CS-freaks, like me) you will probably think that it runs OK with cedega.

Just my experiense, with my P4 2.6, 768MB ram, Geforce 6800LE.

Hope this post make's somewhat sense, since im not really too sober yet.

enternaL · Post by **enternaL** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:06 pm

Drag0n wrote:Remarkable how they describe them, too:

Description: client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program

This doesn't really sound like "Game Server for Half-Life/Steam" to me.

Yes, it's a "client for the Steam content delivery" to download the dedicated servers - not the game client. I agree it can be easily confused; they should've stuck with the Half-Life Dedicated Server (HLDS) name, or something equivalent. =\

IIRC, Counter-Strike 1.6 ran great on Linux as it did on Windows. My box is a P4 2.8GHz, 1GB PC4000, nVidia 6800GT (OC'd).

andrewd18 · Post by **andrewd18** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:11 pm

Steam works in 20050311.

http://www.winehq.org/?issue=265

See near the bottom, "Steam Working".

~~ Andrew D.

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