Left 4 Dead 2

What works

Loading the game works. Sound seems to work with no drop outs.

What does not

Nothing

Workarounds

What was not tested

Voice chatting

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The mouse arrow bug seems to be gone now which is good. The game also will not set the right resolution it will not even list the correct ones in game menu. You have to set the launch options like -w 1360 -h 768 -windowed -noborder to get it to work at fullscreen when the desktop is at 1360x768. Change your numbers to what your desktop is set at and it will be fine. If you don't the game only fills 3/4 of the screen from left to right and its hard to guide through the menu. FPS are better too. Its required that you run this command in terminal to make the game complete installing of updates or it will error out. sh winetricks corefonts allfonts tahoma gecko gecko-dbg Which is required for steam games to work.

- 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.