A small library to improve Half-Life's load times on Linux.
In Windows file and folder names are case-insensitive, while in Linux they are case-sensitive. To compensate for this, Valve made a wrapper around the filesystem calls in filesystem_stdio.so which walks through the given path and looks up if there are any files or folders which differ from the requested in letter cases. This can get quite lengthy since Half-Life tries opening lots of non-existent files, especially if running a mod.
There's an optimization in place which checks if the requested path starts with a path to the Steam folder and removes this initial part from the lookups. Unfortunately, if Half-Life is installed outside of the Steam folder, this optimization is completely skipped.
hlfixperf changes this Steam folder path used for the optimization to the Half-Life folder path. This way most of the accesses have to look through only a handful of folders, regardless of where Half-Life is installed.
The performance improvement varies, on my PC it makes the load times almost twice as short when running mods.
Put the path to libhlfixperf.so into the LD_PRELOAD variable, either by putting LD_PRELOAD=/full/path/to/libhlfixperf.so %command% into the launch options in Steam, or by editing the launch script you use for BunnymodXT or hl-capture.
- Get stable Rust, then do
rustup target add i686-unknown-linux-gnu - Clone the repository and do
cargo build --release
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