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.
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What works
Everything, especially at DX8.0. Includes HDR, etc. Slowly (20fps or so) on a 7900GS lappy card at 1440x900 with DX9. With DX8 it hovers around 50FPS
Voice works flawlessly, using my Sound Blaster Live! 24bit External (as a regular USB soundcard).
Admin functions.
In-game commands (fall back, go go go!, etc)
Grenades and flashes
What does not
Crashes too frequently to really play effectively.
What was not tested
Windowed mode, other aspect ratios, and long-term gameplay (see above)
Additional Comments
Would be platinum (yes, platinum) if it didn't crash. Otherwise, it runs great and comparable to Windows speed.
If I can fix the crash issue, I'm on Linux full-time and wiping my Windows partition!
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.
On some distros with broken gcc (Ubuntu in particular) in winecfg libraries tab add "GameOverlayRenderer.dll" and set it to "disable".
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 :)
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by Yuri Shishenko on Friday March 29th 2013, 13:48
Can see lights through walls
by Tom Wijsman on Saturday September 1st 2012, 13:28
I can see all the lights in the levels through the walls, to be clear, it are the light sources that are visible. Is this a known bug; if so, how can I fix it?
Game crush after intro logo
by Prot on Saturday September 1st 2012, 2:39
I'm pached wine (bug #7698) and try to run with next command:
"wine Steam -no-dwrite -applaunch 240 -gl -dxlevel 90 -console -startwindowed"
After video logo intro game crush..
What i do wrong?
Game always exits after loading screen
by AMK on Wednesday August 15th 2012, 17:01
Hi
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and Wine 1.4
I managed to run CSS once but it worked poorly so I reinstalled, following tutorial. Now the game exits every single time after loading screen. Tried reinstalling wine and of course the game itself.
last line in console is: "err:mmtime:TIME_MMTimeStop Timer still active?!"
any help would be appreciated.
wine detects microphone but it's not working in CS:S...
by Steffen on Tuesday May 29th 2012, 12:36
Hi,
after I posted in the main forum, thinking it was a WINE problem, I now know that this is in fact a CS:S related problem.
Somehow, CS:S is not able to detect the default sound device for sound input. Does anyone know if there are console commands/config settings to change the used sound device(s)?
Black / darkened screen
by slnchr on Sunday April 8th 2012, 16:14
As some other people already described before, I also have a black screen when I start-up CS:S. The screen is not entirely black and I can still see the menu's. I can load the game also, which has no textures on the wall and everything is dark.
The weird thing is that HL2 does work, without any problems! So no black screen.
I was able to get CS:S working with the -dxlevel 80 command but the first server I connected [b]immediately banned for cheating[/b]. I would people not recommand to use this parameter.
Something I noticed is that HL2 says in my hardware is "Directx9.0+" while CS:S says my hardware is only Directx8.0 capable. Therefore I think this problem has to do something with the connection of CS:S to my video card (and might be different from the way HL2 does this). I must say that installing my video card took a lot of efford and gave me some problems.
I hope somebody knows a decent fix for this problem because for now I can't play counter-strike source while I can play other steam games on the same Source engine.
My video card is: MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozr III
My driver version is:
NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 295.33 Sat Mar 17 14:57:21 PDT 2012
NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
My wine version is: 1.3 (winetricks as well as playonlinux):
Black screen
by Andrew Schott on Sunday January 1st 2012, 5:54
Anyone else getting the black background and then whatever text/ui elements overlaid, but the models are not viewable due to the darkness of the overall scene? (hey, I am trying to describe stuff an artist would be best at. I aint no artist :P )
FWIW, I have tried Crossover Games and Wine, both yield the same results. And oddly nowhere can I view a forum hit that shows anyone else whining about this game not working right.
This kicked in when Steam pushed a HL2 patch out to all HL2 based games, including CS:S. This patch was mid December. I have tried to repair this using multiple methods, but am getting nowhere. Any help would be appreciated.
I am getting the gut feeling that between what some Windows gamers have reported in the other games I do get to play, that we may be running into an nVIDIA proprietary driver bug. Several Star Trek Online players told me to try that since they were having crap luck with the newer drivers. But I figured I would ask here first before getting THAT anal retentive.
It works great for me and I get sound on all Steam games :)
-Install DKMS .deb
-DON'T FORGET TO EXECUTE "sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel" or it won't work :)
About issue with MOTD
by birdy on Monday November 7th 2011, 18:10
I had the same problem and the problem is solved now. I've installed IE7 and IE8 via winetricks. It seems solve the problem, but it has to be confirmed. In fact I installed gecko120 too.
If someone can confirm this fix :)
no sound
by wes lane on Thursday November 3rd 2011, 19:19
running Fedora 15 and wine 1.3.24. I've selected ALSA in winecfg (and sound test works) but there is no sound in any games run through wine, including cs:s. help!
Mouse in 1.3.23
by yog on Saturday July 2nd 2011, 18:05
When I move my mouse, the view rotates unsmoothly, but when I use keyboard, it looks good and fluent. My mouse is Razer diamondback, my xinput list-props:
Mouse since 1.3.19
by kiroyal on Sunday June 12th 2011, 19:18
Ever since wine1.3.19+ ( including 1.3.22 ) the mouse will occasionally "twitch".
For instance, running forward and looking with the mouse, if the movement rapid enough, will cause the mouse to sometimes flip your view 180 degrees and have you aiming at the floor.
This is with raw_input disabled as my mouse movement doesn't work with it enabled( however the buttons do ).
Any feedback would be appreciated but for now I'll stick with 1.3.18
Working CSS, with Windows 98
by Tim on Thursday April 7th 2011, 7:19
Confirming bug: 26669
When using Wine-1.2.1 using the Windows 98 for the hl2.exe file settings fixes the HeadShot error, where the game would crash when a headshot was encountered.
No text in scoreboard
by Michael Langston on Sunday January 9th 2011, 13:41
I know theres already a thread about this below, but it needs repeating. When I hit tab to view the scoreboard during a game, I see no names, kill counts, death counts, or pings. I can see the avatar associated with each name, but not the name itself.
I've tried many things, both wine-related and not (including skinning the scoreboard and playing with res files), to try and fix this but I can't seem to shake it. I find it hard to believe I'm the only one with this issue, so I'm reaching out.
The solution below was related to ATI cards, the machine I play on has an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 M (though I did attempt the ATI solution).
CS: Source on Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX Wine 1.2
by marc on Wednesday January 5th 2011, 15:56
Hi,
I have installed Wine 1.2 onto my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit laptop with Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX (driver version: 195.36.24)
I installed Steam and installed the winetricks stuff. I've installed Counter Strike: Source via Steam. I'm able to launch CS: Source from Steam (after disabling gameoverlayrenderer in Wine config) however when I set Counter Strike options to the same options I use in Windows Vista (HIGH - where I get around 80fps) I get about 10-15 fps: the game isn't playable.
Can someone please explain what I have to do in order to get high FPS with high graphics settings.
Opaque white boxes anywhere there should be a transparent UI element
by Quinn Strahl on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 17:01
The subject says it all; anywhere, while playing in a server (this does not apply to the main menu or any of its sub-menus), wherever there would normally be a transparent UI element (example: the HUD at the bottom, any interactive text elements like the voting menu, the minimap in the top left, etc.), there is instead a solid white box - this blocks most of my screen and makes the game unplayable. Wine version 1.2
CSS runs reasonably well but under newer wine/linux versions it does
much worse (in terms of fps) than it did under OpenSuse10.2 and some older version of wine/nvidia driver (I can't recall the version) on
the exact same hardware.
Under "Dust2" I get from 10-50fps. Under "Kismayo?" I get something like 20-50 fps.
Stuff tried:
UseGSLS = "disabled"/"enabled"
-vsync
-dxlevel 80,81, and 70
-heapsize 512000
r_shadows 1,0
*various other console tweaks*
Last time I encountered this I was running OpenSuSE 10.2. The solution was to go back to an older nvidia driver and manually compile it. This appears to be an identical problem, however, the older nvidia versions won't compile under the newer distro's.
Compiz: Unredirect Fullscreen Windows
by Darxus on Friday December 17th 2010, 12:46
Enabling this option massively improved performance.
Around the same time I found out it's apparently common knowledge that compiz kills wine game performance. Would have been nice to see it mentioned somewhere before.
When using compiz, instead of writing directly to video card ram, applications write to an offscreen buffer which compiz then displays. That slows things down.
This "unredirect fullscreen windows" option makes it stop doing that (for applications running full screen, like CS under wine).
I have not yet compared performance to use without compiz running at all, but with this unredirect option, I was getting a higher frame rate at maximum video quality @1600x1200) than I was with minimum quality @1024x768).
So it looks like there's no reason to stop having jiggly windows to get good performance in wine.
Working today, not yesterday
by Darxus on Sunday December 12th 2010, 23:58
This is very odd. It has worked great all day today. I don't think it crashed once.
But yesterday it was crashing every maybe 5 minutes. Very annoying.
And I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything that caused that.
I currently have all graphics settings at minimum, including HDR off. Resolution 1024x768. But I think it was also fine for a while at 1600x1200, just wanted to try a higher frame rate.
Wine v1.2.1-0ubuntu1, nvidia 8800 GT with driver version 185. Pretty stock ubuntu maverick.
Maybe it was that last reboot after all the problems yesterday.
Oh, I also shut off mouse acceleration via the command "xset m 0 0". I guess that could have been it.
You *definitely* want to shut off mouse acceleration for shooters, makes aim much more consistent.
AMD 64, 8gb ram. With chromium and azureus running (throttled).
Sound driver conflict?
by Daniel Rutledge on Friday December 3rd 2010, 7:20
I just got CS:S to start again using the gameoverlayrenderer fix below, however the program exits when I try to join any game, reminiscent of the sound driver conflict. WineCFG is only using the ALSA drivers, and I did "$killall pulseaudio" before I started steam. There is sound in the CS:S menu, but it crashes when I join a server.
CSS updates
by David Hanson on Friday November 19th 2010, 17:47
..and now I can't launch it. What do I do now? Looks like this happens from time to time, but I'm new to the whole process. How long does it typically stay broken?
RE: CSS updates by David Hanson on
Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 9:46
RE: CSS updates by Joachim on
Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 10:43
RE: CSS updates by David Hanson on
Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 11:37
RE: CSS updates by Jeffrey Sander on
Saturday November 20th 2010, 11:01
RE: CSS updates by David Hanson on
Monday November 22nd 2010, 14:22
Obsolete tips
by Joachim on Sunday November 14th 2010, 17:20
The tip about running with "windows 98" is obsolete. CS:S no longer run on this OS. Setting "windows 98" as wine simulated OS make CS:S display an error.
The tip about the file to put in your resource folder to avoid bug #7698 doesn't work.
Can't see any names/fonts on scoreboard
by Lars-Philip on Saturday October 23rd 2010, 5:26
When I press tab for the scoreboard, I can only see the awarded stars and other icons and to the far left the avatar/logo of the player, but no names whatsoever. I have installed every possible font I think. Even motd shows correctly everywhere now, but not the scoreboard.
G3 Autosniper Bug again?
by Lars-Philip on Wednesday October 20th 2010, 6:18
I just played Counterstrike Source after a long pause and after a few minutes someone used the g3 autosniper and the game crashed. I know this was a bug some time ago, it's definitely the same issue again. I thought it was fixed?
Location of Files
by Greg on Saturday October 16th 2010, 19:28
Hey,
Everything works perfectly, its just I was wondering where the installation directory of counter strike source is because i want to edit autoexec.cfg usually located in "/steam/steamapps/(username)/counter-strike source/cstrike/cfg/autoexec.cfg".
I just don't know where the steam directory itself is. Tried searching for it via a desktop search and find in terminal, but no results.
crashes with lower resolution
by d9re on Saturday October 16th 2010, 9:30
Since the update from the 6th (store.steampowered.com/news/4442/) or 7th (store.steampowered.com/news/4447/) October my game crashes every time when I join or create a server. I don't even see the start-screen, it crashes at the end of the last "loading-routine". The game works only if im playing it at my native, highest resolution (1440x900 widescreen, geforce go 6800).
Missing ALSA driver
by Anlil Brikha on Wednesday September 22nd 2010, 23:07
As stated in the instructions, the ALSA driver is necessary or the game will crash after you press enter when first entering a server. I am running Fedora 13 64-bit. The problem is in winecfg, in the audio tab, there is no ALSA option. Only PulseAudio is shown.
The problem with pretty much every other audio driver not showing is that they are installed in /usr/lib64/wine and not in /usr/lib/wine. The file you are looking for depends on the driver, but for ALSA it is winealsa.drv.so. What you have to do is install the 64bit and 32bit ALSA driver. To install the 32bit (the part that is missing) go to www.rpmfind.net/ and search for winealsa.drv.so. You might get a too many connections error, but keep trying at different times. You are looking for the .rpm for 32bit Fedora in the list they give you. Download and install that rpm and you are good to go. Then just go to winecfg -> audio tab -> Check ALSA.
I hope this helps someone cause it took me a long time to figure this out since I just started using linux yesterday.
Long launch time
by Glenn McClelland on Sunday August 29th 2010, 6:42
Not sure if it's only me or if it's just how it is but when I launch Counter-Strike: Source through Steam it shows "Preparing to launch Counter-Strike: Source..." for a very long time. Eventually it will load but it takes much longer than I would expect it to.
The same goes with Team Fortress 2 when I launch that.
Am I the only one? Is there a fix for this? Is it a bug? Or is it just how it is?
Disconnect: Server Timed Out
by Evil on Saturday August 7th 2010, 20:19
Anyone else getting "Disconnect: Server Timed Out" messages at random intervals since the update to the orangebox engine? The server in my case is on my LAN - and not kicking normal Windows clients.
Low FPS after playing some time
by Olli on Monday July 26th 2010, 19:39
First it works fine and FPS is 150-300, but after I play 15-45 minutes FPS drops to 10-40. After playing couple minutes it sometimes raises back to 150-300, but usually I have to restart.
Randomly freezing
by Şan on Sunday July 25th 2010, 9:32
Hello I'm on OpenSUSE 11.3 KDE 64-Bit with latest Nvidia propertiary driver(GTX470). I ran CS:S okay, but it freezes randomly. It freezes in the main menu, when I join the game, and sometimes when I shoot a weapon. This happens even with the lowest settings. I also remember this happening on Kubuntu 64-Bit. I'm a newbie and don't know what to do, any help? :(
CS:S works perfectly
by Ionel Vasile on Monday July 19th 2010, 13:46
I'd like to say that on my current box, which mainly consists of 4 GB DDR2 RAM, a nvidia 9600 GT and an AMD Athlon X2 5400+ CS:S works at a native performance (comparing with Windows 7) BUT only if shadows are turned to the lowest detail possible. Should they be at any higher level of detail, I experience extreme loss of FPS when seeing other players, albeit playing offline by myself the FPS are just fine.
Can't get it to work at all
by Hutch on Monday July 12th 2010, 21:32
I have successfully installed steam and downloaded CS:S. But when I load the game up I get an error that says: "Failed to create D3D device!" and it links me to this page:support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=772
I don't have any of the graphics cards listed on that site (I have a GeForce 9600 GT, all my drivers are up to date on linux, and putting -dxlevel in the launch options doesn't help at all.
I'm on wine 1.2rc7 (at least I think. It's the latest wine package on Ubuntu 10.04.) and I have all the settings in the cfg for wine set to what thispage suggests.
Please help, I'd love to be able to play some CS:S on Linux, because I've fallen in love with Linux and this is the only thing hindering me from using this computer only on Linux.
After updating, I cannot play with dxlevel 70. The screen appears black after changing the resolution or moving any window in the game around (like console) and I cannot see the message-box, net graph, scopes from scout, awp, etc. With dxlevel 80 everything works, but its laggy.
Crashes on key input
by Rothen on Wednesday June 23rd 2010, 23:04
With new update, CS:S is broken for me. I don't know why, I have been using 1.2rc4, and everything was going great until the did the engine update. Anyone else experiencing this or is there a solution out there I don't know about?
CSS hangs Linux....
by william on Monday June 7th 2010, 11:51
Right now i'm having a problem playing CSS, after about 5-10 minutes linux (ubuntu 10.04) will hang, i cannot ctrl+alt+f1 or anything, i can move the mouse but nothing happens when i click stuff.
I'm not sure but i have a feeling that its my Graphics card (Radeon HD 4770) iv'e had numerous problems with this card, even in Windows XP, (iv'e already had it RMA'd once i think its the drivers) kinda disappointed its a great card but the drivers are holding it way back...
Microphone works and people can hear but with crackling?
by laeg on Friday June 4th 2010, 11:51
People have been telling me there's lots of crackling on it although they can hear me and sometimes make out what I'm saying. Someone suggested I change the channel in my microphone config.
I'm told this is not a CSS file or one that would have been installed with the mic, if using Windows, in a directory other than CSS. Instead it was suggested I tinker with the mic options in control panel which I of course cannot do.
If relevant I can hear everyone else fine, when I test the microphone in CSS from the options it plays back sounding clear, I play on Ubuntu 9.10 and usually have less than 20ms latency.
Dxlevel info
by Archlinux on Thursday February 18th 2010, 6:41
dxlevel 10 = d3d1, dxlevel 100 = d3d10 - this should be remembered when testing - especially if you are a archer like me :).
And AFAIK source engine doesn't even support d3d10 moreover AFAIR CSS uses Source Engine 14 (the one in hl2ep1), not 16 (the one in hl2ep2, garrysmod 10, team forteress 2 and so on).
RE: Dxlevel info by Archlinux on
Thursday February 18th 2010, 8:02
CS:S crashes frequently.
by Mike Talanca on Sunday November 29th 2009, 22:54
I've had no problems with CS:S for a long time now, but I took about a 6 month break from playing. Now I want to play again, and I'm getting freezes every few minutes. Here's a link to the console output when I try to play CS:S from the time I start it up to the time it crashes: pastebin.ca/1693479
I've tried the fix where I place the file in the resource folder. I haven't tried patching/recompiling yet. I'm running Sabayon 5.0 with Wine 1.1.32.
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.
