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Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server For Linux

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With the increasing number of servers in Linux the Counter Strike 1.6 Server has been made for the Linux operating Sysytem. The Dedicated Server can be set up along with different services like psychostats.

The Addons for the dedicated server are available for download via Internet. These addons like AMX Mod X and metamod are made for Linux too.

The Windows versions contain the .dll files and here in Linux the files will be kept with the extension .so

HLDS for Linux is the keyword to be used to locate the Linux server in the Internet. Game on...!!!

Psychostats For Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server in Linux

The latest version of psychostats is 3.1 and is available for windows and Linux. Mainly Psychostats is used for displaying the game statistics like frags and aces in a website running on the same server.

The psychostats package consists of two parts one to update the stats to the webserver and another to show the stats in the web server. The first package is a Perl package and the other package is the set of php and html files showing the data in the website.

The windows version of the package is very difficult to configure for the users who have no knowledge of the PHP, SQL and other packages. So, the Linux version would help the users set the website very easily.

The Stats update can be done by just running a Perl script provided in the package itself. The Perl script takes the stats from the Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server and sets the stats into the website.

Recently the Psychostats installation has been explained very clearly in their website and a flash demo is also appears to be made.

OpenGL vs Direct3D Video Modes for Counter Strike

There are three different modes of Video output in Win XP. These are Direct3D, OpenGL and Software mode. The Software mode will run by making the video output into fragments and directly showing it as a picture or a user interface. The D3D and OpenGL are bit recommended modes for Video Output. The Software mode takes its turn when there is no possiblity for OpenGL and some incompatibility issues.

Linux uses OpenGL as there is no Direct3D option. But when there is an option for Windows PCs to have Direct3D, it is better because it is said to be faster than OpenGL. But the factor in these days not the configuration. So, OpenGL can be used for better quality of the Output Video.

OpenGL poses shows some incompatibility on Windows PCs without Graphic Cards, but there wont be any problem using the Direct3D option for 3D Gaming.

The game Counter Strike allows the users to select the required Video mode to play in. The option is shown in the Video Tab of the options window. If a user thinks his PC is slow and is resulting in low FPS, they can always switch to D3D. Also, sometimes the game Counter Strike directly reports some message after opening the application Counter Strike and return to Software mode of Video Output. The Software mode of Video output for the game Counter Strike will not have the Option to change alignment to right handed. So, the final option of the Video mode is Direct3D.

FPS Games for Linux

Linux is a free OS. It is the fastest developing OS. Most of the server around the world use Linux as their platform as it has many advantages and easier programming facilities. Then why not for games. Games like Couter Strike and Call of Duty seem to have servers running in Linux. It is good to have runnable games in Linux to encourage the increasing number of users of Linux around the World.

The Games like EA Sports Fifa, NFS, etc should be supporting Linux too. Linux's baisc video mode is OpenGL which is a widely supported mode for all the games. With good GPUs available form nVIDIA and ATI, it might never be a problem for Linux to process games of such Graphics. The supported Games are the most massively played multiplayer games like Unreal Tournament and Quake and Counter Strike. It is always better to have more number of games supporting Linux OS with time which will increase the number of users of Linux around the World.

The Limitation to this idea may be the wide range of Linux OSs releasing with time. There are a number of OSs like Red Hat's Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Debian etc...

AMX Mod X and Admin Mod Installation for Counter Strike 1.6 on Linux OS

AMX Mod X is also designed for the Versions of Counter Strike running on Linux OSs. AMX Mod X needs Metamod, as it runs on Metamod. The Metamod supports both Windows and Linux. This makes it possible for AMX Mod X to run in Linux too.

The AMX Mod X package for Linux can be downloaded from amxmodx.org. This package includes the Metamod for Linux. Or the Metamod alone can be downloaded from the website metamod.org. You can download the Linux version of the Metamod.

The same case holds good for Admin Mod also. You can install Admin Mod for Linux. You can download it from adminmod.org. File Download link is shown as halflife-adminmod and is available for Windows, Linux and also AMD64.

The Admin Mod installation is always made easier by making it a self extracting and installing package. You can do this by giving the command install_admin in the Terminal while you are in the directory where install_admin file is present. You just need to run the install_admin file with parameter as the mod name, in Linux OS to install the Admin Mod in Linux by opening the Terminal. It might ask you the path to the CS1.6 installation in Linux and adds the required binaries and writes the paths in required files like liblist.gam.

All the files are in tarball. So you can use winrar to extract the files. While in Linux the program package is given with the Linux installation itself.

Once the package has been downloaded, just extract it to get the files. These files should be placed in the addons folder of Counter Strike 1.6 installation. The folders should look like this,

• cstrike\addons\metamod\dlls
• cstrike\addons\amxmodx\configs
• cstrike\addons\amxmodx\modules etc...

This is how the folder tree should be placed. Then you need to edit the liblist.gam file. The liblist.gam file is a text file which loads the required module for the game while it is running. The liblist.gam file previously contains the line gamedll_linux "dlls/mp.dll" change it to this gamedll_linux "addons/metamod/dlls/metamod_i386.so". The name of the file may change, but make sure that you are giving the correct file name for the OS and also 32 bit or 64 bit, because each OS has its own name and 32 or 64 bit has its own name. Like,

• Windows 32 bit has its own metamod dll filename ending with .dll. (use gamedll)
• Windows 64 bit has its own metamod dll filename ending with .dll. (use gamedll)
• Linux 32 bit has its own metamod filename ending with .so. (use gamedll_linux)
• Linux 64 bit has its own metamod filename ending with .so. (use gamedll_linux)

That's it, you are done installation of Metamod.

Now for the installation of AMX Mod and other mods, you need to download their packages and put where ever you want but put this line in the Metamod's plugins.ini file linux "path of the file" ex: linux "addons/amxmodx/dlls/amdmodx.so" or linux "addons/statsme/dlls/statsme.so" same for Admin Mod with the path to the .so file. See for the compatibility of Statsme plugin in 64 bit and Linux in its official website.

That's it. You can now finish the installation, unless you want to know how to install AMX Mod X addons like CSDM, GunGame Mod, Diablo Mod, Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne Mod in Linux. For this you just need to know how to install them in the windows. Just place the file sin their exact location comparing the folders in the downloaded package and the folders in the installation of CS1.6. It is same. You can see the topic of AMXX Plugins installation for much detailed complete explanation.

You may face a little difficulty in the Compilation of the AMXX Plugins in Linux which can be done just by running the other file which runs in Linux.