Left 4 Dead 2

What works

Pretty much everything

What does not

Sometimes the fonts don't appear correctly or at all in the game. (Whether it be in the menus or in-game) It's annoying but otherwise, the game works.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Core 2 Quad Q6600 Drivers 260xx Nvidia Geforce 9800GT 2GB RAM Aside from the sound dropping and then eventually crashing the game (due to the open file descriptor limits (which has nothing to do with wine versions)), it works flawlessly without the need to disable the gameoverlayrenderer.dll

- 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.