Left 4 Dead 2

What works

• Single-player
• Multi-player
• Third-Party-Content
  

What does not

• Steam-Community-In-Game (in case of this, i can't send invites to my friends, but i can receive it from them)
• Unfortunatly, game crashes after one or two hours of play*
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Actually, I have played it on '8.2 pre-release' system with Xorg 7.5 via native nvidia driver on PentiumDC t4300 and Geforce 105M. Sound works fine with OSS 4.2.b2004 (native microphone support included) on Intel 82801I High Definition Audio Controller. According to the instruction from [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux] I have installed Tahoma font via winetricks. But if it does not help, you can add it to registry manual: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Tahoma (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf" "Tahoma Bold (TrueType)"="tahomabd.ttf" All values are case-sensitive. * - application crashes about 5-10 minutes after dissapearing of ingame sound.

- To get past the "Incomplete Installation" error:

Use Wine-1.1.35 or later

- To get past crashing at the MOTD display when joining a multiplayer game:

Either: Use native urlmon.dll (can be limited to just left4dead2.exe),
Or: Use wine-1.1.27 or earlier.

- To improve the performance

1. Enable multicore rendering.  This increases performance by 10-15 fps in most places for me.
2. Use the following patch:
http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=24812
   This increases performance by 50-60 fps in most places for me.  Note that you may need to minimise/restore or otherwise lose and regain focus of the game to fix the flashlight and some textures if using this patch.
   The performance is so much better in wine-1.1.33 that this doesn't seem to be needed any more.  The framerate with this in wine-1.1.32 was still higher than the framerate without this in wine-1.1.33 though.

- To get past the crashing/restarting/broken game files which occurs every few minutes during gameplay

Add -lv to the launch options in Steam.  This enables low gore mode, which for some reason fixes the problem.  Low gore mode doesn't look as great, but it's worth it for the stability.