Counter Strike With Wine
 

Hi there ,

Iam a noob using Linux base OS, I love to Learn the OS but one thing lack with Liunx is PC Games, thats the only reson i dont use Linux alot :) but i have found out that Wine can Run some Windows base Games on Linux, but i got no idea how to install Wine and Config it to Work so that i can Install my Best PC games Counter Strike on Linux and some Apps like M$ for my Uni Assginment. Uni dont Run Open Office :) so if anyone out there like to help me with Wine will be great

Thanks
nivek

This has been asked lots of times on the forum, and the answer is more or less: wine is bèta software. Some people can use it, lots can't.
I suggest you search this forum, search google, or go here: http://www.winehq.org/Docs/wine-faq/t1.shtml
Point is though, that may give up after a while as wine isn't yet what it's supposed to be.

Download wine and a program called winesetuptk. THat way you get wine and a great gui to help configure it. I haven't gotten any games to work on wine, but I have gotten several progs like Drammatica Pro and Sibelius to work. It's fun to tinker with I suppose, but don't get stressed if you can't get it to work.

You should get WineX from http://www.transgaming.com. Unfortunatelly it ain't free :( But you can download the cvs for free.

Half Life and Counterstrike run natively under Linux...

thanks guys :)

Are you sure? I am almost positive that Half-Life does NOT have a linux version available (well, a linux client. There has been a linux server has for a long time). I would LOVE to be proved wrong though

Kater, check first before you say something.
neither Half-Life or Counter-Strike play native under linux, only the server can be runned under linux.
I suggest WineX.

I actually have had good experiances with wineX. I succesfully ran ran several games like return to castle wolfenstine and quake 3. I experianced that games from id software run well. I also heard half life runs really good, as if it were a native linux binary. A few other games didn't work though. Tombraider doesn't and some other.

schatoor, Return to castle wolfenstein and Quake3 are availeble as native ports.
Better to use those, much faster.

Yes, i know. But I just wanted to see if it would work.

WineX ok i'll try that thanks

Hey nivek WHATS UP!!!
You are the nivek from WC right? :)
I think there is a linux version of counter-strike out there so if you don't mind spending extra cash then you could get that.