Counter-Strike: Source is the latest release of Counter-Strike, the planet's most popular squad-based Tactical Action FPS, where players co-operate as part of a team to achieve objectives.
When adding test results please specify video card and driver version you are using.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Internet play.
Voice communication.
What does not
HTML MOTD.
What was not tested
Installing the game through Steam.
LAN play.
Additional Comments
Runs well after recompiling wine with small source modifications. Without this the hl2.exe crashes within seconds of joining a server. You can view the patch I used at http://home.comcast.net/~vivnet/freetype.patch
After patching the game runs with no crashes except on some servers after clicking OK on the MOTD screen.
It is possible that this is somehow related to my hardware as I have noticed that users with more recent GFX cards have not mentioned needing changes to avoid constant crashing.
Using Nvidia 180.60 non-distribution drivers as the 185.xx and 190.xx series causes hl2.exe to crash on exit.
Tested on Nvidia 6800 GS in directx 8.1 mode.
Rating Silver generously as the game is Garbage without modifying freetype.
All things going well, this game will work in current versions of wine (wine-1.0.1 and up) if you:
Install steam and Counter Strike Source from the DVD or via the steam download.
Select only "ALSA" sound driver in winecfg. OSS does not work anymore because Steam itself has sound open.
Start Steam with the following command:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam && WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam -applaunch 240
Note: Your path might differ, depending on language and installation directory. This is default for English install.
Note2: Additional command line options go after-applaunch * not before. Ex: -applaunch 240 -dxlevel 80 -console
For better graphics quality you might want to use -dxlevel 90 command option and enable GLSL shaders via registry (save this to a "file.reg" then import with 'wine regedit file.reg'):
When starting a game Steam throws an error saying The registry was in use by another process.
See Steam's HOWTO for possible solutions.
Counter Strike crashes as soon as it starts or you join a game.
You most likely have other program(s) using sound. Run winecfg and select only ALSA sound driver. OSS is not the best choice anymore.
For Ubuntu 8.04 and up - kill/disable pulseaudio. It is not compatible with Wine. And will cause all sorts of problems if left running.
Another possible reason - you have "Steam Community In-Game" enabled. It does not work properly on Wine and causes all games to crash. Please disable it in settings -> In-game tab.
MOTD/server description is not visible.
This is a know bug and is not yet fixed. Some text might be visible but most is not.
Voice communication doesn't work (for some users).
There are no known workarounds. Try using alsa as described bellow and using other voice communication software.
Steam will not work from ntfs partition mounted using ntfs-3g driver (2.6.25 kernels and older)
This is a known limitation of the driver. Steam requires functionality (mmap with shared write access) which Wine can not emulate if it's not supported on file system. To fix: Install Steam and all content into native Linux file system.
Game crashes after a few minutes. You can fix this by putting this file into your "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/YOURUSERNAME/counter-strike source/cstrike/resource" folder, or by applying this patch. See bug #7698 for more information.
Lacking fonts. You need Tahoma and Lucida Console fonts for every text to show properly. Use winetricks to get them if you don't have a windows install handy.
Game crash after a while
To fix:
Run winecfg, click "Add application...", select "hl2.exe" (doesn't matter which one, only the filename is used, not the path) and click Open. Select "hl2.exe" in the list and change the "Windows version" to "Windows 98".
Thoughts -
(i) In the past Steam updates have been followed by serious errors running CS:S (or even just steam), including serious lockups. When running after an update, be sure that you're ready to
switch to another tty at the first sign of trouble - preferably having a "wineserver -k" sitting ready in it just in case. Just a thought.
(ii) Sound latency issues (skipping, popping as everything struggles to keep up) - most notably sudden lag during firefights can sometimes be cleared up by running "soundlist" in the CS:S console. This is a more general CS:S issue, nothing to do with wine.
If you have other good resource (at least as good as ones above) send vitamin a message with the link.
Warning
Do not change mat_dxlevel if the CS-Source game renderer has been started one time or more. If you need to change it (for example, for join in a server with zblock), change it before you join a server or with the -dxlevel launch parameter. If not, the game will freeze for a very long time. Only try it if you have enough memory (1GB or more) and a good hard disk :)
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Resolution Drop
by Aron on Tuesday November 10th 2009, 22:37
When using 1280x960 resolution it will drop randomly sometimes. It's not lack of hardware. I run it great at this resolution. It just randomly drops sometimes. It will skip or stutter then drop. Any fixes on this? I do not want to be limited to 1024 X 768...I like being able to see well.
Works perfect
by Sam on Monday November 2nd 2009, 12:13
I got this working with pulseaudio (without specifying ALSA OSS in wine :D). I also got this to work on highest quality without any parameters set within steam startup.
I used 185 drivers for NVIDIA perfectly nothing wrong so far. I did get this working without the patch but was laggy as hell (so much so I had to patch).
In order for my graphics to show up correctly I had to add:
Without that my graphics lagged and eventually crashed. I got problems in wine 1.1.28 with the gun fire sound being 2.5 secs after the shot (which may not sound bad but really is after a while) but that seems to all be fixed. I installed this through steam as I find installing through DVD still a bit buggy.
All in all I would rate gold is I did test data (and was allowed to with patched wine).
For best speeds and frame rate (100+ easily) i recommend just copying the parameters said above for steam (dxlevel 80)
I just noticed that you said you are having problems dropping that you need that patch. Well I completely forgot. You need to install fonts. If someone in the game has crazy fonts and you don't know what they are...not 100% sure about that or why. I just know 100% that when I put the font package in, no drops. Except those 5 servers. Another thing that can do that is pulseaudio. I had to create a startup command to kill it or it would crash things also. That patch is not needed. I am trying to figure out whats with the motd, dropping all the way out of the game to the login screen when exiting, and why I have to put anything at all in the game launcher. When I don't run it..I have the exact same settings, yet it gets low fps. That makes no sense. Have you tried running the game with no commands after doing it once? While using launcher command it does not save config settings....crosshairscale and brightness being the main ones. Maybe we can get together sometime and go over things more indetail if you are interested. I have a server and time to show you stuff and maybe learn something also.
RE: Vivid. by vivid on
Sunday November 1st 2009, 9:40
RE: Vivid. by Aron on
Sunday November 1st 2009, 12:14
Low fps
by Aron on Saturday October 31st 2009, 19:39
I still have no help with this. When I first built this computer. All brand new pretty much. Only thing ran on it was linux. First time I did the fps test on Counter Strike I did over 230 fps. I played that way all night. I woke up the next day I got 93 during the same test with the same settings. I would really like to know what happened and what I can to do to go back up to that during the test again. My ingame FPS was over 300 at minimum. All I did was turn the computer off. Since then I have reinstalled Ubuntu 9.04 and Wine and Counter Strike Several times trying to get back to that first number...and nothing. I even replaced my GPU cause I thought something was wrong with it...boggles my mind...any ideas???
Server drop fix?
by Aron on Saturday October 24th 2009, 14:55
When I go to "webkillers.com" office servers, my steam crashes. It also happens on a few other random ones, but the Webkillers.com servers are the most well known servers that linux users crash on when hitting the motd screen. Soon as the black box shows it freezes, then crashes. Can't get any info other than that. Can someone test this on there servers and help find a fix?? I can't scrim with clans sometimes because it does this. Thank you,
To the contributor
by Aron on Saturday October 17th 2009, 15:11
To person that did the last test on this game,
"The game is unplayable without modifications to wine's source(crashes with every headshot, which is very common in the game). See below."
Additional Comments
"Runs well after recompiling with changes to dlls/gdi32/freetype.c. However, this release has noticeable fps regression from 1.1.29 resulting in increased duration of stuttering."
This is not needed, or recommended. Do this at your own risk. I have down to the detail instructions on my website how to run it perfectly. Some things for different linux systems may need a tweak, but not configuring any files that can get you banned by STEAM. Also if you tweak the wrong file you will not be able to league play or scrim on any serious level. I did not post this to offend only to inform. Thank you.
Wine 64 bit
by Aron on Saturday October 17th 2009, 15:06
Has anyone got Wine 64 bit to work with this game or no? I have 8gb DDR3 and I can't even run at 1/4 of what I should. Can anyone help with this? Trying to follow how to install the 64bit wine is very confusing and hard, don't even know if it works.
spreads across entire workspace
by Mac Swindle on Monday October 12th 2009, 1:06
Whenever i try and launch CS:S it creates a window that is 3120 x 1050, which is the entire size of my workplace spread across 2 monitors. There is no way for me to change it, as i can get to the video menu in CS:S, but the only options for resolution is 3120 x 1050, both in normal, and windowed mode. And it wont launch at all when i tell Wine to make a virtual desktop. wtf?
Voice Server
by Aron on Saturday September 26th 2009, 7:43
After having a massive FPS/lag issue using ventrilo, I did something different. I got rid of vent and got teamspeak. Teamspeak works 100% with Counter Strike and has no lag. Teamspeak works 110%.
Console Font!
by Antrix on Sunday September 20th 2009, 5:41
If someone has difficulty with fonts in the console, then do following:
Find and open file SourceScheme.res, which is located in the "../cstrike/resource/" directory. Find the line "ConsoleText". You will see the following block:
"ConsoleText"
{
"1"
{
"name" "Lucida Console"
"tall" "10"
"weight" "500"
}
}
Change the value of "tall" from 10 to 14. Now text in console displays normally.
MOTD working for me Tested for about half hour
by Rick on Wednesday September 16th 2009, 0:33
Okay so here is what i was thinking. The MOTD is either a simple html file written and saved on the server or it is an html file that calls the internet for images / uses an entire webpage.
To display webpages you need a browser. internet explorer is built into windows so CS:S takes advantage of that to display MOTD.
To get MOTD to i used winetricks to install IE6 and after that all the MOTDs I have tested have worked. I spent about a half hour just connecting to random servers to see if there MOTDs worked. The only thing i noticed was that the load time for the MOTD is much longer than you would see on a windows system. A couple times I saw just the black like the MOTD was broken but after waiting a few more seconds the webpages would load.
Other big problems
by Aron on Monday September 14th 2009, 9:29
-->HERE IS A NEW ONE;
When you start up Steam, then click on CSS sound will fail and not work at all until you restart the game. You have to Click on CSS first to not have sound issues. Sometimes when I have steam running while doing things, I have to exit out then start up CSS to play it. This could be from an system update. I noticed it after updating a few things on my Ubuntu. Any input on this would be good.
Steam Ingame communication does NOT work. This is a huge disadvantage. People will message you on Steam and the screen will flicker and you can't reply back without "Tab+alting" and minimizing CSS.
Also when exiting out of CSS it logs all the way out to the log in screen. You have to alt-tab then right click quit the game.
Also I wouldn't use the "patch" listed above to stop crashing. I have found out that 9 times out of 10 it is pulseaudio. The other 1 is the servers themselves cause you to crash. I have noticed that one server crashes my css when the motd music plays. So something is odd with that. Anyways a long time ago I used that "patch" and it messed my settings all up. I had never seen Counter Strike look so bad and glitchy.
The Mic ingame "bug" is not really a bug and easy to fix. Other than some static, it works just fine. Been using it for long time on 3 different computers with many different software.
If anyone needs help or has any questions, please feel free to message(private or public) me on my CSS website. www.thepz.tk I go by the name below ,
more tests a success ntfs working
by Rick on Saturday September 12th 2009, 16:18
After finding out that my mic works perfectly in game I decided to test some other things that are said not to be working. The one I tried next was running steam from a ntfs partition. I directed wine to steam.exe on my ntfs drive and it works like a charm. I am not 100% but i believe its mounted with ntfs-3g.
ubuntu 9.10 x64 daily build from 9/8/09
wine 1.0.1
This page just needs some updating. to let people know that these things are working. the bold red text is misleading people.
Seriously...
by Aron on Saturday September 12th 2009, 8:32
I play counter-strike almost every single day...and you guys that are putting it as platinum status are not doing your homework....it is if anything Gold. It takes incredible amounts almost to tweak it. To the last guy that did the test and says nothing was wrong with it is incorrect. Motd will NOT work. How about ingame mic sounds like complete trash to other people? Thats two of .......
Not to mention I just found out ventrilo smacks your fps down to 20-40 when playing with ventrilo on. Ventrilo and counter-strike are like milk and cookies. Every good CSS player, clan play, league player uses vent or teamspeak. This alone shouldn't let this game go above gold.
If you do not know much about the games that you are testing, please don't post your tests...it's only making it harder to get things fixed or find answers....
I still can't figure out why the hell I went from 250 FPS down to 90 FPS in the stress test over night. This is a HUGE problem!
NOTE: ALSO DO NOT USE THE BETA NVIDIA DRIVER UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! IT WILL RANDOMLY DELETE ITSELF!
Thanks,
Metal M
-Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04/Latest WINE
-790 ULTRA SLI MOBO
-OverClocked NVIDIA GTX 275(This is a monster card on windows with this game!300+FPS average)
-Intel 7400 2.8 Ghz Processor
-8GB DDR3 RAM
Vent+ Counter strike Source FPS issues.
by Aron on Friday September 11th 2009, 21:34
I have recently downloaded the Ventrilo for XP, in which my Wine is set for. I have the recent updated Wine, not a beta(Need to get 64bit wine, but thats a pain.) with Ubuntu Jaunty(lastest). I play css with an average of 100-300 + FPS. I ran on Dust2 with ventrilo going and it dropped to 20-40 fps. Is this a fixable bug or new one or?? I never dropped in fps on windows by using vent. I know it can drop a little thats why I use to use Skype or teamspeak. You can't use Skype with CSS though , seeing how it uses pulseaudio. Can someone look into this FPS loss?
FPS BOOST/League CONFIG
by Aron on Tuesday September 1st 2009, 21:38
This is similar to "Casey's Config" that I made, but better. More fps, faster rates(better registry). Also legal specs for "scrim/league" play. For some linux users you may have to configure a few things differently. I personally have my computer set up different than most linux players do. This should give you the most out of your system, especially when you don't have a top of the line gaming computer. If you have any problems with this or any feedback, please contact me at www.thepz.tk (I am Metal Monkey). I will be more than happy to help out. Check it out, I'm confident that this is a must have for a lot of players. The few people that have used this that I have spoken with have gained 50-150 fps. This is also legal. This is not a hack/mod that can get you in trouble.
Steam Fonts.
by Aron on Friday August 21st 2009, 7:40
This should be added to the "how to install" section. You need AT LEAST Tahoma and lucida console fonts. I have added many more that have given me the ability to see 95% of all fonts in Counter-Strike Source. Even the weird symbols people use.
Here is the link to download the fonts that you can not play without.
Still Crashing/low fps/MOTD
by Aron on Thursday August 13th 2009, 5:21
1.When I installed my new graphics card (bfg gtx 275) and when I first ran the stress test I ran over 200fps. I did this all night long. I turned it off and woke the next day I got no more than 90fps during the test. I have reinstalled everything many times and I can not get the same fps again. I run the latest supported WINE. I do not know why I can't get the fps back up again. I ran in game 200-300 fps, now I get 60-120. Not good.
2. With some servers I still crash when joining. Soon as it gets to the motd I crash. Game freezes then goes to desktop.
3. When exiting counter strike I drop all the way to the log in menu.
4. MOTD problem. This may help someone figure out how to fix it. I run 2 servers and here is my findings. When I put in just simple text into the MOTD server file, people with wine can see it. I can also. Now when I put in HTML to show a picture/music..all I get is a blank MOTD. I have the MOTD set up to show our clan site as the MOTD. I will post the MOTD html to see if this helps, but im not sure if it will. I think I use to be able to see SOME MOTDS a while ago, but im pretty sure I cant see any custom MOTDs.
5. This is a standard HTML code for MOTDs, which I believe is the standard MOTD. I hope this helps. I do run to css servers so If anyone needs any server side info or anything please feel free to email me at Rugermonkey@yahoo.com Thank You.
Redirect Webpage
Clan Pz
Server MOTD loading.....
Please wait and read for rules, news, and information about this server.
Crash when bomb is planted
by Smee Snerdley on Friday July 17th 2009, 14:58
Great work on this game guys, performance is excellent. Getting 200fps at 1680x1050, dxlevel 90, 16xAF, and all high settings (GTX 260). I have applied the patch to fix the autosniper crash and also the font fix. The one thing left that prevents this game from being platinum for me is that it crashes every time the bomb is planted on a DE map. It doesn't matter if you plant the bomb yourself or if somebody else on the server plants it... it crashes every time. Somebody else on here mentioned that custom maps work fine but de_dust and de_dust2 crash, and it's probably the same thing. It crashes just before you would normally hear "The bomb has been planted," so if you are somewhere else in the map, it may seem like it crashes randomly after a few minutes. For anyone who gets crashes on DE maps, try joining an empty de_dust server and plant the bomb. I can play CS and custom gungame maps for hours with no issues, so I mostly stick with servers that play cs_office 24/7 or custom maps.
CS : Source keeps crashing.
by Jack Diaz on Sunday July 12th 2009, 19:24
CS : S crashes once I'm inside the game and select my model been trying to take a snapshot of the terminal output but the whole system crashes is this a driver problem or a wine problem? I have an ATI card.
hi,
i use wine under mac osx, my css crashed too in the beginning, then i found out that it has something to do with the keyboard input.
right before it crashes it hangs for about 2 seconds if i didnt do further keyboard input it ran fine for 5 seconds after the hang and than got stuck again after pressing some keys.
so i set key-repeat-rate to minimum, now it runs fine so far (aswell as other source-games...)
No Resolution in Options Menu
by Adrian on Saturday June 6th 2009, 11:38
I have Debian 5 installed with handinstalled XFCE 4. nvidia-driver 185.18.14 and wine 1.1.23.
I cannot set resolution inGame of CS:S, there are no resolutions shown. I ve tried stable wine and older graphics drivers but fruitless. Setting -h 768 -w 1024 or other resolutions in startoptions it is fruitless too. The game sets 640x480 per default but this isnt shown too in options menu ingame.
CS:S is Crashing with an "Unhandled Exception"
by Jeff Hoogland on Thursday June 4th 2009, 15:43
After a few moments of game play it simply crashes out on me... I added the file listed in the how tos but it did not help. Any suggestions? What other information can I provide to help debug the issue?
Extrememly slow ...
by Trinh Quang Anh on Wednesday June 3rd 2009, 9:28
I have Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz 2G DDR2, ATI HD4670 512 MB. Using Wine 1.1.22.
Even I disabled Pixel Shader, and -dxlevel 70, CS:S still run like a slide show. Help please!
Game always crash...
by Eryk Rutkowski on Monday May 25th 2009, 9:50
When i get connection with server i'am crashed - allways...
I add this to the regedit bu doesn't work:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
I have 10-60 fps. -dxlevel 81 -heapsize 2048000
I have asus p5b, nvidia geforce 8600gts, intel core 2 duo 1,8 ghz, 4 gb ram.
Wine 1.1.18.
Pls help. I want 50+ fps, not 0-60-70 fps. :) :)
Crash only on certain maps
by Andy on Thursday April 30th 2009, 11:29
I've got CS source working pretty well except for a very strange problem. I only experience crashes on certain maps. So far, any custom maps (gg_, aim_, etc) all work. De_Dust, De_Dust2 both crash...
Freaky morphed models
by Rob on Tuesday March 10th 2009, 15:10
This is my setup:
Video card: ATI Radeon HD 3470
Driver: fglrx 9.2 for x86_64
OS: Debian Lenny (5.0)
Wine versions tried: 1.1.11 through 1.1.16
Counter-strike Source runs fine, pretty fast too. The game looks fine essentially but all the models are morphed into strange shapes... It looks like the shape is following some kind of perspective; the shape itself looks like something of the model's body is stretched out into infinity in a specific direction. It is unplayable because the morphings keep blocking my view.... VERY trippy stuff!
Does anyone know what might be the fix for this strange problem?
Can't play zombie?
by Phillip on Sunday March 8th 2009, 18:06
Every time I try to join a zombie server I get to the point where the server info. window appears, but then the game closes. Any help would be appreciated.
I am running Ubuntu 8.10
Wine 1.16
ATI 850 graphics card
settings not saved
by Robin L on Monday February 23rd 2009, 13:37
When I change some settings ingame (like the screen resolution), they are reverted back to default when I restart CS:S. I have CS:S installed on a separate EXT3 partition. Sometimes I also start the same executable from my Windows XP partition. Could this be the cause of this problem?
I install Steam and CS:S under Linux and run CS:S using this command:
WINEDEBUG=-all wine ~/.wine/dosdevices/e:\\\/Steam/Steam.exe -applaunch 240 -dxlevel 80
And alsa sound doesn't work. In previus version of wine - 1.0.0 it worked, but in 1.1.14 not. =/
RE: by Ben Klein on
Tuesday February 3rd 2009, 4:16
RE: by vitamin on
Tuesday February 3rd 2009, 21:04
Counter Strike: Online Multiplayer Crashes
by Aaron on Sunday February 1st 2009, 12:21
I've noticed when I play against bots or if my connection is good, Counter Strike will work for many hours, no crashes... pretty much as stable as it is in Windows XP (with DirectX 8). However, Counter Strike on wine will crash when I have a poor connection or if I get loss or choke in a multiplayer game. Perhaps Counter Stike under wine will crash due to network timeouts set by the application. Can anyone else try playing locally against bots to see if they can reproduce my problem, and notice that their counter strike crashes are due to networking problems and not graphics glitches/application crashes.
I have followed all the instructions posted for playing CS:S on wine. I'm even using the buggy fglrx ATI drivers.
Headshot + Widescreen = Crash
by Hajdu Balázs on Tuesday January 27th 2009, 4:08
I have a laptop with 1680*1050 display with Ubuntu CS is wirk fine when I set it to ALSA +kill pulse audio but after a headshot the game crashes.... I am using it on native resolution because it dont let me use it in windowed or other res.... If i change the wine to win 98 or win ME but the steam says that win 98 is too old to run Steam ...
Doesn't work under FreeBSD 8-CURRENT
by Garrett Cooper on Monday January 5th 2009, 1:05
Trying to install any steam game dies with the following error:
X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable
Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 224386
Current serial number in output stream: 224386
I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80.
I'm all open to providing more info, as needed.
Notes:
- FreeBSD 8-CURRENT does NOT use ALSA because it's not Linux (FreeBSD uses OSS properly...).
- I'm not using OSS available in the kernel, because it doesn't have X-Fi support.
No antialiasing
by Plague on Saturday January 3rd 2009, 7:53
I cannot make AA to work for hl2-based games. hl.exe based games work nicely with nVidia's Override setting, CoD and other games work, but not CS:S. Anybody has a solution?
Video Stress Test works only for 1024x768
by Plague on Thursday January 1st 2009, 20:16
When I use any other resolution (not only higher, but also LOWER!), the test performs like 0.5 FPS. Just for 1024x768 it goes like it should (dx9 - 35).
I tried every single option, all three dxlevels, wine version 1.0.9 and 1.0.11.
When I turn of the Vertex shaders (horrible graphics), it starts to work, Pixel shaders do not change this.
Black Screen on Load
by Jeff Hoogland on Wednesday December 10th 2008, 18:52
So installing works fine but when ever I try to load the game itself all I get is a black screen with the cursor... Any ideas what I can do to make this work?
Just not right
by Nick Corriveau on Wednesday October 29th 2008, 20:26
Installation is a breeze, and after numerous cfg tweaks, the game works fine in windowed for the most part on all high settings. However the game is glitchy like i have a lower quality video card. So if i lower settings, the game is still a little glitchy. For most players the glitchyness is unoticible, however being a sponsored player on a recognized cal team, its not acceptable and im forced to keep xp just for css :(
Q6600@2.4ghz, 8800gts 640mb/320bit, 4gb ram, 160gb 3gb/s sata drive.
New and interesting windowing bug.
by Evil on Saturday October 18th 2008, 14:35
I've replaced my video card and am now having MUCH better results with CS:S (I love Wine!). Most of my problems were due to a defective EVGA 9600GT.
However, I discovered a new windowing bug today with CS:S and other Source-based games (I verified the same behavior under the Zombie Panic total conversion) running under KDE4.1 (no Compiz, Kubuntu 8.10b1).
Do this:
1) Start CS:S on your first desktop.
2) Configure CS:S to run in windowed mode in a window smaller than your desktop. You should see a CS:S window with your standard KDE windows decorations.
2) Use the pager applet to flip to a second desktop
3) Flip back to the first desktop.
4) At this point you will see not only a window with your standard KDE windows decorations, but inside that window will be a Windows window with Windows decorations. All mouse clicks will be offset by the number of pixels equal to the second, Windows, titlebar.
You can recover by using the Windows titlebar to maximize the game window - which will maximize the KDE window and get rid of the Windows window. Then, flip to the second desktop. Flip back to the first desktop and you will have a Windows window inside your KDE window again. Hit the restore button on the Windows window, and the KDE window will shrink back to normal size and the Windows window will have disappeared. Wow, that's some redundant use of the word "window".
I hope some dev can make sense of my rambling and use it to improve Wine. Thanks.
by João Ricardo Lourenço on Saturday October 18th 2008, 9:05
Hi
Ok, so it crashes, but does it crsah your whole system? Could you get a console output into here?
Remember to use CTRL+ALT+X(1,2,3,4,5,...) to change tty
High FPS!. Ignore my last post.
by Erik on Monday September 29th 2008, 15:13
I figured out why my FPS was so low.
1. My Nvidia screenlet slowed down my graphics card.
2. In Nvidia settings -> OpenGL Settings i changed image settings to high performance.
Now my FPS is 50-80 on high settings at dxlevel 81 :)
Model: High. Texture: High. Shander: High. Water: Simple. Shadow: High. Antialiasing: None. Filtering: Trilinear. Wait for vertical sync: Disabled. High Dynamic Range: None
Running at 1024X768
Really Low FPS
by Erik on Monday September 29th 2008, 12:03
Hi.
I find it impossible to play css unless i am running it at dxlevel 70.
At highest settings(almost) i get around 50 FPS. But if i switch to dxlevel 81, then my FPS is about 15-30 and it stays at about 20 all the time.
And in dxlevel 90, regardless of my settings, it barely reaches 20!
my hardware card do a hell lot better than this!
Here are my settings: hem.bredband.net/erwel/CSS_settings.png
AMD 64bit 2.6GHz X2
2gb RAM
Nvidia EN8500GT. overclocked to GPU: 495MHz and RAM 418MHz. Proper cooled.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 64bit running Wine 1.1.5
Known Issue....
by Maximilian on Monday September 22nd 2008, 15:38
When using mumble, the console output says something about a suspicious xorg extension.
If you have this enabled, your mumble will crash randomly while playing css with wine.Moreover, your controls won't work: when you press "a+d" or "w+s" at the same time, your character will run randomly in different directions even if you don't touch your keyboard ;-).
If you want a working CSS wine installation, get rid of this line in your xorg.conf!
Huge FPS increase in dxlevel 81.
by Erik on Friday September 12th 2008, 14:07
If you run CS:S in dirextx 9 you will only get about 20FPS, even with the lowest settings.
If you change the dxlevel to 81, you will get from from 60-80FPS (highest detail level)
If you run it in lowest detail level in dxlevel 81 you will have about 100 FPS.
As you see, you will get a huge FPS increase by changing the dxlevel to 81.
Im running wine 1.1.4 at ubuntu 8.04 64 bit. My graphics card is nvidia EnGeForce 8500GT.
Any tips for FPS increase?
by John Smith on Saturday September 6th 2008, 17:49
I'm running the lastest version of wine: 1.1.4 ATM.
I only use wine for one thing: Counter-Strike Source. Its been working well, I get around 20fps. I want to increase my FPS though.
Does anyone have any tips or is there a guide to optimize wine to work best with this game? I run wine AS-IS after compiling it (I use Gentoo). For CS-Source I typically run it windowed, with low settings and dxlevel at 81.
Let me know if anyone has any optimization tips. Thanks.
