Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build

Following the Counter-Strike 2 limited test since March, Counter-Strike 2 is now officially released and there is also a SteamOS/Linux build now available...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2-Linux

[skeevy420]

So that's what that 33.2GB update is for. I've had this game installed for 10 years and have accumulated a massive two minutes of play time. It came with a Valve bundle I got to play the Portal games.

A lie!? Pfft. The cake is mythology.

[geearf]

Darn, 85Gb.

[StarterX4]

If you get a weird post-update issue that the executable is missing, game files weight few megabytes and files integrity verification finds nothing wrong — just restart Steam (eventually clear download cache?).
I've seen a lot of people complain about it on community hub.

[Leprechaunius]

OOT, but could you run some benchmarks of jdk 21 vs 17 as well Michael? People are touting big increases.

[Spacefish]

First read "7000" and thought it meant Radeon 7000, but then i figured it´s 7000 HD .
Very old card, but nice to see that it´s still supported and rocking a vulkan driver!

[anarki2]

It's a shame there's no macOS support.

[bple2137]

Looks like it's very early for the Linux port. I didn't get any sound in the game and even though I get around 90-120 FPS, the frame pacing is just horrible. I'm on Wayland so no way to disable vsync for now, but that probably means a lot of screen tearing on X. Too lazy to check it out, I'll revisit in a month or so.

[mirmirmir]

So playing cs on controller?? Hmm, how does that feel?

[Mershl]

Looks like it's very early for the Linux port. I didn't get any sound in the game and even though I get around 90-120 FPS, the frame pacing is just horrible. I'm on Wayland so no way to disable vsync for now, but that probably means a lot of screen tearing on X. Too lazy to check it out, I'll revisit in a month or so.

Explicitly choosing an audio device in the Audio settings "fixed" the no audio issue for me on Fedora 38.

It seems AMDGPU+mesa is affected by colorful outlines for the smoke grenades. While AMD APUs+mesa do not seem to render the smoke at all with enemies being fully rendered behind the "invisible" smoke... that's a No Go for a competitive shooter... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csg...ent-1738151926

UPDATE: Both the smoke bug on AMDGPU and the sound issue have been fixed by a recent game update.