Day of Defeat: Source

What works

-> Joining games;
-> Hosting games;
-> Changing video configuration in-game;
-> Steam overlay UI;
-> DX 9.0c;
-> Downloading custom mods and plugins while joining a server;

What does not

-> Sometimes starts with broken UI in KDE4 (i have to try with other desktop environments);
-> Framerate lower than in Windows;

Workarounds

What was not tested

-> Joining many multiplayer games, since i've tried just a couple of games.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

As i said before, framerate is lower than in Windows, about 40-70 unstable fps while in Windows are over 70 fps stable. About the UI: sometimes the games runs with broken UI, i think is a compatibility problem with KDE4 and KWin 3D effects, i'll make new tests with other desktop environments. My hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 750 at 2.67 Ghz, 4 GB of RAM and ATI HD5830 with 1 GB of VRAM and installed ATI fglrx drivers.

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So some things I've noticed that you need to get Day of Defeat to run better are:

• Alsa-drivers (including all librarys and utils) >=1.0.13 (gets rid of weird sounds for me)
• Also make sure to use the oss driver not the alsa driver. If you exerience weird sound issues using emulation instead of hardware.
  
• Graphics driver for Nvidia users >=1.0.8774, ATI users >=8.29.6 (just out of curiousity has anyone with any other graphics card i.e. intel, sis, via, etc...gotten this to work?)
• The betas from Nvidia work well also.
  
• Xorg-x11 >=7.0 (anything less gets a performance hit for some reason (anyone else experience this?)
• For both of the following make sure these are under the Depth 24. Day of Defeat: Source only plays at 32-bit (Depth 24)
  
• For all 4:3 aspect ratios to show up in game, include the following in your xorg.conf:
• 640x480
• 800x600
• 1024x768
• 1280x1024
• 1600x1200
• For all 16:10 aspect ratio to show up in game, include the following in your xorg.conf:
• 1280x960
• 1680x1050
• 1920x1200
  
• If you are compiling this from source (like me a gentoo user) I've tested out a bunch of things and recommend the following versions to compile wine:
• GCC 4.1.1 (latest stable, slightly larger binaries than 3.4.6 but faster nominally)
  
• Currently the newest gcc 4.2 snapshot makes the game randomly crash. So I'd hold off on using the new compiler.
  
• GLIBC >=2.4
• Linux headers (gentoo users) or kernel version (everyone else) >=2.6.17
• Known to run well on all versions after and including 0.9.23.
  

FAQ:

Q: It seems that dod source works once steam as been installed as it is said in the steam section. But once dod is launched, steam stays in focus and obstruct the screen. When I try to lower the steam window, everything freezes and I must reboot the PC, the keyboard is not responding!
Whats going on?

A: One of the known bugs with steam is that it always is on top and cannot be minimized, or else the system crashes. So if the steam window is still on your screen when you start your game, simply X out of it instead of trying to minimize it.