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 “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

Downloads and installs through Steam
Intro video plays correctly with sound

What does not

The game does not start.

If started with the intro video: following the video the screen goes black, there is a pause, and then the game exits (no error message in terminal)
If started without the intro video (-novid option): the loading screen shows up, but it appears to be drawn incorrectly, and the game exits after a short while (no error message)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing past the start of the game could be tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Additional Comments

I submitted a screenshot of the loading screen in OS X. It appears compressed to the top of the screen and has some bizarre coloration problems below that. I believe this is a problem with DirectX 9 in OS X. I have similar problems with mis-colored textures in Bioshock. Hardware-wise, I am using a Macbook Pro laptop. My video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT; this setup is more than capable of running this game.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	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	No	Platinum	Wayne
Show	Fedora 21 x86_64	Mar 29 2015	1.7.38	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	brnns
Show	Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"	Dec 14 2014	1.7.33	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 03 2014	1.7.22	Yes	Yes	No	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
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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