I was just wondering if I can play Counter-Strike on my RedHat 8.0 Linux box... I have set up a Counter-Strike server 'hlds' but is there a way I can actually play it on another Linux computer? If so where can I find the tar, rpm, bin, or whatever?
Thanks
-Andy

i'm afraid both of us are out of luck here

you may be able to get it running using wine, but i think you better stick with multiboot and play CS in windows (at least that's what i do:-)

With WineX it will work.
www.transgaming.com

You got to pay for the rpm/deb files 5 euro a month
They just released new version.

It's the way I do it.

If you would liek to try it first you can get wineX from CVS, is free that way. CS works flawless in wineX.

It works using wine. I ran it for a while with about 30 fps. It ran pretty well, though it has obvious lag from being emulated.

WineX is very good for direct3D games like WC3.

I would say get WineX, but the CVS version is more often than not broken.

WineX is made for better support with stuff using DirectX (which just about all windows game use). The difference between direct X support with wine and wineX is alot. So if you are going to be gaming wineX is the way to go.

About the CVS being broken that is rare. I usually get a fresh wineX from cvs about once a week. bumped into a broken one once and that was fixed within 2 days.

so apps -wine
games -wineX

I use wine for kazaa, winamp and wineX for starcraft and cs. If you have a nvidia card (and fast pc) playing cs with wineX should be almost identical to playing in windows. using a ati card and a slow pc dont even waste your time.

yeah i forgot to mention that i got 30fps using a geforce 2 on a 1.2Ghz, 768MB Ram system

hope that gives you some view on how your system will perform, especially since my vid card is kinda...old

do u need the .rpm and the .deb and .tar.gz or is just the rpm good?

winex3-3.0_pre-1.i386.rpm ios what i have right now...

The rpm is the correct format for mandrake (or any rpm based distro), .deb is the extention for debian packages and .tar.gz (.tgz perhaps?) is for the rest of us.

" I use wine for kazaa, winamp and wineX for starcraft and cs. If you have a nvidia card (and fast pc) playing cs with wineX should be almost identical to playing in windows. using a ati card and a slow pc dont even waste your time." -wr3ck3d

I thought it was impossible to have two installations of wine simultaneous

Ok i Installed win got the new script and everything with a bit of help but now..... when i go to do winex3 setup i get

wine: lstat /root/.transgaming/wineserver-computer/socket : No such file or directory

Before DavidPhillips who was helping me said t o do
Echo "127.0.0.1" computer>>/ or something .. .any 1 kno what it is please?

I had it working but had to add Load "dri" and had to restart X and nw that i restarted it i need to re do this command...

Ok.... i figired out that it was 'echo "127.0.0.1 computer" >> /etc/hosts' but i still get this error

wine: lstat /home/ian/.transgaming/wineserver-computer/socket : No such file or directory

Please Help... You can find me on AIM ICQ or on these fourms... that stuff in my profile... thanks

ok... fixed that but im getting this now...

Half-Life Install loads says i cant play back wav files... then i hti ok and i get this

Building font metrics. This may take some time...
Done building font metrics
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0"
after 6641 requests (6641 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

very simple to have to wine installs. Just make directory installs for each

./configure --prefix=/opt/wine
./configure --prefix=/opt/winex

then you have them each in thier own dir and they dont bother eachother

How does that help me and my problem?