Day of Defeat: Source

What works

The game. Multiplayer works great. I played a good hour and a half without any trouble, in fact, I dare say performance is better than on my windows partition. I played as a US Marine the entire time, either as a rifleman, a (whatever the guy is with the thompson), and a machinegunner. Never a problem with any of the weapons or anything. Text displayed fine, all was well.

What does not

when i resized to 1280x1024 (i believe that was the res) the menus got all screwed up (input wasn't being proccessed correctly, and mouse clicks were interpreted as being about 128 pixels LOWER than the actual mouse cursor) After restarting the game (closing it caused my entire system to die, ctrl+alt+f1 couldn't get me into a virtual console). The menu was in the upper left of the screen, instead of the middle lower left, which was odd, but mouse clicks lined up with the cursor.

Graphical bugs were abundant, and I will upload screenshots. The skybox had little white boxes (cloud sprites without textures maybe?) that blinked in and out of view. Also, on levels with water, the refraction map (or rather the render target that recieves everything BELOW the water in order to simulate refraction) was in the skybox... It seems to me that maybe texture names(the indices) are being reused when they shouldnt be?

Most importantly:

As I said before, the game crashed when i exited it. It crashed my entire system. It doesnt seem that it JUST crashed X, it crashed everything, because I couldn't ctrl+alt+f(1-6) to get to a virtual terminal. I had to do a hard shutdown.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Other classes of players, the Nazi side.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

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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.