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1007 linux compability

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15.04.18 09:57:19 pm

Dear Unreal software,

I play cs2d on xubuntu.But now it doesn't want to boot.So please help me i love your game. 32bit 14.04.Version 1006 worked perfectly on steam or with your client, but now 1007 doesnt boot.Please fix this because i love your game.

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15.04.18 10:16:45 pm

What does "doesn't boot" mean? What happens if you try to start the game? Do you get an error message?

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cool voin
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16.04.18 08:15:18 pm

steam says starting game and then the window closes and nothing
no error messages

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20.04.18 08:35:23 pm

Well, I'd been struggling the same problem until now that I've found a workaround that actually works.

Detailed version:

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First, CS2D is a 32-bit application, so you need to install 32-bit libraries as stated in ldd, mine is the followings:

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At this point, some CS2D may work on some linux distributions. I'm using 64-bit Arch Linux and it still didn't work.

Linux resc 4.15.14-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 28 17:34:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I thought that might be a problem with my graphics card because I have an integrated Intel graphics card which had problems with CS2D in the previous versions (currently, it still has; the game crashes with segfault from i965_dri.so in lib32-mesa). Fortunately, I have NVIDIA 960M with primus, so I use bumblebee to run the game discretely with the NVIDIA card, but the game crashed anyway.

Until recently (when I updated to 1007), I found another source of the crashing. It was that CS2D couldn't find libsteam_api.so although it was in the same directory as the executable, so I preloaded the library with LD_PRELOAD:

LD_PRELOAD=$cs2d_path/libsteam_api.so optirun $cs2d_path/CS2D

Be noted that optirun is for running with NVIDIA discrete card.
Eventually, the game worked like a charm. There has been no crashing at startup anymore.

Summarized version:
All you need to do to get CS2D playable is the following steps:
1. Locate the game directory from Steam.
2. Install the necessary 32-bit libraries whose information obtained from the output of

ldd /path/to/game/CS2D

3. Install bumblebee if you're using problematic integrated Intel cards or not using proprietary NVIDIA driver and your card supports Optimus.
4. In any directory (I prefer /usr/bin because it's in $PATH), write a custom script for running CS2D like this:

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#!/bin/bash
cs2d_path=/path/to/cs2d/directory
LD_PRELOAD=$cs2d_path/libsteam_api.so optirun $cs2d_path/CS2D

Remove optirun if you're using proprietary driver for the X server. Also, don't forget to give the script executable permission.

chmod +x yourscript

From this step, you should be able to play CS2D directly by running the script. But if you want to run it from Steam (in which CS2D in linux OFFICIALLY does NOT support), you need to modify launching options in the Steam game library, but I haven't got that to work even I put /usr/bin/cs2d into the launching command, the game would just crash.

I wish CS2D had better support for Linux...

edited 1×, last 11.05.18 05:46:59 pm

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02.07.18 08:08:56 pm

The game just doesnt start i have all 32 bit libraries but version 1006 worked i dont know whats the problem and there are no error messages
nothing happens when i try to start the game

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