Left 4 Dead 2

What works

Everything works

What does not

Nothing

Workarounds

What was not tested

Voice Chat

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

There is a known bug with the mouse cursor being right in the crosshairs and it flickers and it does wander a bit when aiming but does not effect aiming. The fps seems a-lot better from 1.3.25 and older. The flashlight does not affect the fps like it did before. gameoverlayrenderer.dll override set to disable not needed anymore. I did not test a whole campaign yet. But the sound did not drop in the first chapter of Dark Carnival. I am not sure if that is fixed yet or not. All I can think of is a few more performance tweaks in wine and you think it was running on windows.

- 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.