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I have a weird experience when it comes to playing Counter Strike on Linux. It was back in 2004 when most non-Valve Counter Strike servers in my region(EU) used
by artiscode 7y ago
I have a weird experience when it comes to playing Counter Strike on Linux. It was back in 2004 when most non-Valve Counter Strike servers in my region(EU) used anti-cheat software called CheatingDeath. I was using Linux on my desktop for all tasks, which included playing Counter Strike, as I was a 15 year old kid. Needless to say, not only CheatingDeath did not work under Wine, it outright refused to play the game altogether, blocking the UI and informing server admins that I was cheating, which led to me getting banned. I had paid for a reserved slot on my favorite servers, so getting permanently banned was devastating. Luckily there was also cheat software called CheatingDeathDeath that emulated CheatingDeath, run perfectly fine under Wine and came with a variety of cheats built-in. It also spoofed fingerprinting part, making my machine appear as normal. So I could play CS on Linux(with actual cheats disabled) and didn't have to worry about getting banned because anti-cheat software would mark me as a false positive. Thanks, cheat developers!
P.S.
I got better performance playing CS with Wine and cheat software as it didn't hog system resources so much. I recall getting a maximum of 75 FPS under Windows running genuine CheatingDeath and stable 100 FPS under Linux and CheatingDeathDeath.