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Left 4 Dead

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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 “movies,” 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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What works

Everything involved in single player.

Guns shoot. Zombies die. Items work. New levels load properly. As far as I can tell - everything works.

What does not

Frame rate is very poor (10-20fps - lowest settings at any resolution directX 9), but seems nearly identical on both my Macbook Pro (Intel Core2 Duo 2.2ghz, GeForce 8600M GT, 1G RAM), and desktop (Intel quad core 2.6ghz, 9800 gtx2, 2G RAM).

I find that performance almost never dips below 10 fps, suspiciously so considering how different those two systems are. Can anyone confirm this with more tests? The game runs fairly reliably for me at 10fps. This seems very odd to me.

I found little to no mouse lag like someone else did. The primary performance issue was frame rate for me on both systems.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer - performance was so poor that I didn't bother to try multiplayer. I'll test that once I can get the singleplayer to run reasonably well.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

I made no adjustments to graphics through the console for two reasons. One, most of those commands require you to turn cheats on which would render multiplayer unplayable, and, two, considering the curious issue with the 10 fps frame rate floor, I suspect they will not resolve the issue.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowSlackware 14.1 64-bit multilibFeb 11 20183.0N/A Yes YesGoldManoa 
ShowUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 03 20172.2Yes Yes PlatinumWayne 
ShowFedora 21 x86_64Mar 29 20151.7.38Yes Yes Platinumbrnns 
ShowMac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"Dec 14 20141.7.33Yes Yes Platinuman anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 03 20141.7.22Yes Yes GoldLuis 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
28586 Team Fortress Arcade and Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead have no sound 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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