Alien Swarm

As per the title, Alien Swarm requires a CPU with SSE2 capability, which means no running dedicated servers on Pentium 3 computers...

Game runs/starts fine. However, no input.....i can shoot, but not walk or something...Got a IMac, snowleopard 10.6.6. Nvidia 9400m Graphics.

Yep, same issue on my '08 iMac. I believe that Half-Life: Source also had this issue.

the 3d part of the game is upside-down since catalyst 10.9

fuckyeah amd

Hai guise, I am on Mac osx and I'm trying to launch Alien Swarm, but whenever I do, it says d3d device could not be created blah blah blah. I installed Wine through Fink.
Somebody mind helping me out on this one?

Hi, I am attempting to run Alien Swarm on 2.4 GHz Compaq desktop with 2 GB RAM, an Intel card and Ubuntu 9.10. It launches fine, I hear the menu music and have a mouse cursor, but the screen is black. It seems like I can interact with the menus by feel, but no picture. I didn't attempt to install anything in WineTricks, just running default Steam under Wine 1.2.

It won't let me select multi-core rendering in the advanced options. The option is available when I run alien swarm in windows, but not under wine in ubuntu where the framerate is much lower. How do I fix this problem?

Ubuntu 10.04
Wine 1.2
HP Pavilion dv9560ea

Processor: 1.80 GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T7100 featuring Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile processor technology

I have been having a rather large problem with this under wine 1.2, It loads up fine, but wherever i click on the screen it always selects Create Match, I have tried remaking the prefix, adding dx9 etc but I still cant get it to work correctly.

Any advice would help.

Wine 1.2
PlayonLinux v3.7.6

Debian Squeeze x86_64

nvidia GTX260 BE on 256.35

Gameplay video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUThnczBc8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvSWLsEFHY

The game running in wine 1.2, It should run better than in the video but not that much! Make sure you use the settings I point out!

I also experienced the "Graphic Node Out of Date" message, and the game did lock up at the character setup screen. However, after a minute or so, the game again became responsive. It doesn't seem to be a show-stopper.

Okay so I tried those settings and not loads of luck so i messed around a bit and got to the point where everything is on Low and multi core rendering is on AND v-sync is on ( double or triple makes barely any difference ) and i was running the game in windowed and it runs SO much better

I forgot to mention in my review to those who have the problem with sound disappearing, this is a common issue with Source games on Wine, but you can easily fix it (well to get the sound back temporarily) by going to Options -> Audio and then configurating what kind of speakers you are using.

For example I'm using headphones and when the sound dissapears for some reason the game has changed to "2 Speakers" so what I do is to change it back to "Headphones" and everything works perfectly.

This is an issue I get in all source games really and this is the only temporary fix I know, if someone is aware of a permanent fix then please post it.

I think there's something to this, but haven't isolated the cause either.

The sounds stops working in Steam games, even though the Gnome desktop apps are still making sounds. I tried your method of switching the audio options between headphones/speakers/etc., but in the end I had to logout and login to the desktop again before sound returned.

$ uname -a
Linux router 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
$ wine --version
wine-1.1.42

Okay so i downloaded the game today, Everything ran great apart from performance, I mean its playable but I'm getting low frame rates even on the lowest of settings, anyone else experiencing the same problems?

I got nice performance with everything on low except, except for multicore rendering being enabled and heap size set to High.

You should try a Wine home directory that doesn't have DX9 installed (i.e. dx9 installed via winetricks). I had the same problem and then recreated the Wine home dir and now the game runs flawlessly.

The new Wine 1.3 seems to run the game a bit better.