Left 4 Dead

Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, L4D's survival co-op mode lets you blast a path through the infected in four unique â€œmovies,â€ guiding your survivors across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests in your quest to escape a devastated Ground Zero crawling with infected enemies. Each "movie" is comprised of five large maps, and can be played by one to four human players, with an emphasis on team-based strategy and objectives.

Application Details:

Version:	Full (Steam)
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.l4d.com/
Votes:	81
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	3.0

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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Multiplayer

Singleplayer

Audio

Video

...Everything...under some conditions...

What does not

vanilla wine version 3.1 (compiled from source) crashes when connection to server progress bar reaches the end, crashes without error

Workarounds

software:

kernel 4.11 with BFS scheduler

also tested on kernel 4.14.18 with MuQSS scheduler

hardware:

asrock Z87 Extreme3

haswell 4790K

780 Ti EVGA classified kingpin

32GB DDR3 corsair

first: the winetricks:

gdiplus gdiplus_winxp mfc40 mfc42 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 quartz wsh56vb wsh57 xact_jun2010 xact xinput corefonts vb6run vcrun6 vcrun6sp6 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2013 vcrun2015

wine 3.0 (WOW64) patched with nine 3.0 git build 8 feb 2018, built from source:

mesa versions:

17.2.8

17.3.3

18.0.0-rc4

all have graphic bugs:

characters are black when flashlight is off

disabling SweetFX with the disable key renders the main menu completely green

other graphic corruptions such as textures disappearing and suddenly reappearing at some view angles

mesa 17.1.x works without graphic errors, but has some mouse lag spikes

mesa 18.x was tested, but it has other problems such as sudden mouse lag spikes

so I came up with a hybrid "driver": use mesa 17.3.3 (32-bit) but manually copied d3dadapter9.so.1.0.0 from mesa version 17.1.10

What was not tested

nVidia graphics drivers

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: open source

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Slackware 14.1 64-bit multilib	Feb 11 2018	3.0	N/A	Yes	Yes	Gold	Manoa
Show	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Mar 03 2017	2.2	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Wayne
Show	Fedora 21 x86_64	Mar 29 2015	1.7.38	Yes	Yes		Platinum	brnns
Show	Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"	Dec 14 2014	1.7.33	Yes	Yes		Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 03 2014	1.7.22	Yes	Yes		Gold	Luis Alvarado

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
5159	Microphone xmit in Half Life and HL:S games very harsh and goes in and out of "focus"	REOPENED		View
24684	Multiple Source engine based games (Steam): out-of-order rendering, bloom effect and lights are visible through walls when multicore rendering is enabled	NEW		View
29354	Multiple Microsoft product installers fail due to ProductID being set during client side "ValidateProductID" standard action (Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, 2007, Visual Studio 2008)	NEW		View
33446	Left 4 Dead: Player outlines may appear distorted	UNCONFIRMED		View
37158	Left 4 Dead (Steam) crashes in libcef after pressing 'tab' key in-game (display multiplayer scores)	NEW		View
38749	Left 4 Dead: text in terminal is unreadable	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

Startup Settings

To change startup settings, right-click on the game in Steam, select "Properties, then "Set launch options...". You can add any of the following options, seperated by a space.

-novid - Prevent the startup video from running. Not necessary, but gets you to the menu faster.

If you have multiple screens, you'll probably find that the game tries to stretch over all screens, instead of just one. In this case, you'll need these options:

-height - Sets the window height. For example, "-height 900".
-width - Sets the window width. For example, "-width 1440".
-windowed - Not necessary, but starts the game in a window. Nice for if you want to move it to a different screen.

Note

L4D does not recognise -dxlevel 81 - it only uses dx9, using this option will make zero difference.

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