Valve/Steam Games

I'm planning on getting a beautiful new AAO, and I'm wondering if games such as Half-Life or Counterstrike 1.6 would run decently. I've seen that Quake and Doom have run pretty nicely, but I'm afraid that larger maps would give the AAO a hard time.

 

if you can get steam to run, you might be in luck

 

i think half life one works according 2 sum1 on youtube, and whut color r u getting ?

 

It's made for windows so you won't be able to run it normally.
You will need a Windows emulator (WINE) to run steam, but I won't recommend you to actually do this because it will run waaaaay to slow.

Quake and Doom are by the way available in linux binaries so that's why they run out of the box.

 

Both half-life and cs 1.6 are descent with wine. Better than my first computer ran it back in 99!!!

 

So if I bought an XP version, I would have no problems with steam right?

 

none theoretically. hardware problems might arise

 

Are you running them through steam? (since thats the only way you can play online AFAIK) .

 

CS 1.6 runs fine on my XP AAO. TF2 on the other hand, crashes...

 

Under XP I could run most directx8 games and a few low end newer titles. Games that were totally playable were...

Half Life 1
Darwinia
SWAT4

 

i did a duel boot with leopard and xp, and when i installed steam is says "Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll" anyone else have this prob?
EDIT: wrong forum i thought this was in the XP section nvm

 

Dunno about SWAT4, but Half-Life 1 should run fine in WINE and of course Darwinia has a true Linux-native version

 

I got steam working with wine, but every time i launch cs 1.6, the launching game window appears and then disappears a few second later. Any suggestions?