Update: 14/12/21 - This has now been fixed.
Despite Valve pushing many areas of Linux gaming, including the upcoming Steam Deck handheld which will use the Arch-based SteamOS 3, they still totally break their own games.
It's pretty concerning that their absolute #1 most popular game on Steam, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has been thoroughly broken on Linux (and macOS) with the update that landed on Friday, December 10. First, the game wouldn't even launch at all which was thankfully fixed - but there's a pretty huge game-breaking problem still left in.
For this, I don't really need to do much explaining, I think these pictures speak for me:
You can track the open issue for it on GitHub.
It does raise an important question - are Valve even testing updates to their own games on Linux? Something like this should not have slipped through the cracks. If it does when the Steam Deck is out, what hope is there? Valve need to do better. Also, don't deploy on a Friday, you dummies.
There's probably some better news coming though, as it appears Valve are preparing Vulkan support for CS:GO with the use of DXVK-Native just like they did for Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Half-Life 2. As we posted about recently on Twitter, a new "-vulkan" string was added and you can also see DXVK libs being added too.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
L4D2 native crashes a lot as well. It truly feels like a joke.
Quoting: scaineI just can't believe that they a) they didn't test b) they pushed on a Friday and then, the final nail c) they did absolutely nothing about it all weekend. IncompetentAs someone who works freelance and switches projects about 2-3 times per year, let me tell you:
I can totally believe that.
The levels of incompetence and complete breakdown of communications on multiple levels I have seen in some companies (that you'd think would be more professional given their size) would make most people revert to their pre-landfall evolutionary state just to cope if they heard it.
The longer I work in IT, the more miraculous I find it that everything around us that is software does not crash and burn 99% of the time.
rustybroomhandle 13 Dec, 2021
headless_cyborg 13 Dec, 2021
I decided not to use the beta workaround because it's not worth it to get VACed. And I can't play anymore, my eyes can't take it. Valve please fix.
[email protected] 13 Dec, 2021
Quoting: NitsugaThis damn game has been crashing for months now, it all started with the ironic "Broken Fang" update.
L4D2 native crashes a lot as well. It truly feels like a joke.
I was about to say it. This is not the first time this happens with CS:GO on Linux.
Also L4D2 on Linux is more crashy than before, and is not only on Linux. My friends on Windows occasionally crash too, but less often than me.
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