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Application Details:
Version: | Steam |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.whatistheorangebox.... |
Votes: | 114 |
Latest Rating: | Bronze |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0-rc2-staging |
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What works
Gameplay, Menus, sprays, mic chat, most things.
What does not
Showing scores or ending a round crashes the game.
Workarounds
What was not tested
LAN, Anti-aliasing, HDR, dxlevel 90
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
used -novid -dxlevel 81 for launch options, tested on this system: 4GB RAM 2.2GHZ Pentium Dual-Core 1GB Nvidia 9400 GT with driver version 185.18.36 Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Fedora 36 x86_64 | Jan 06 2023 | 8.0-rc2-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Markus B. | |
Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Oct 21 2021 | 6.19 | N/A | No | No | Garbage | May | |
Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 08 2016 | 1.8.5 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 28 2015 | 1.7.44 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Show | Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" x86_64 | Jan 03 2013 | 1.5.20 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
5159 | Microphone xmit in Half Life and HL:S games very harsh and goes in and out of "focus" | REOPENED | View | |
6297 | Half life 2 based games occasionally do not start due to registry in use | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
7698 | Counter-Strike:Source crashes after a while | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
9814 | Team Fortress 2 will not start: stack overflow | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
9878 | Most Steam games crash when starting/loading a game | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
9983 | Half-Life 2, Counter Strike Source and other games crash at startup | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
10947 | Team Fortress 2 crashes when joining some servers. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11195 | software sticky key issue in x | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
12327 | Team Fortress 2 freezes when starting playin | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12706 | winealsa.drv: "No master control found" on usb microphone devices | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12807 | Team Fortress 2 crashes after running for several minutes at 1680x1050 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
13589 | Team Fortress 2/TF 2: Black rectangles instead of the correct sprites are displayed | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
13971 | After playing for about 5-10 minutes, Team Fortress 2 only responds on mouse movement | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
14039 | Sending Client Info fails on TF2 | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
14394 | Team Fortress 2 crashes and locks up randomly | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
14778 | Unusual characters in player names crashes Team Fortress 2 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15162 | Team Fortress 2 unstable - random 3d related crashes | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15559 | winealsa sound regression: scratchiness/stutter in multiple games | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17056 | Team Fortress 2 launched from within steam loads, but crashes when launching any map | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17573 | Team Fortress 2 crashes on launch | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
17901 | Team Fortress 2 hangs with looping sound after random time, say 5 mins | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
18636 | All source games crash on exit | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
18900 | Wineserver crashes starting Team Fortress 2 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
19462 | d3d9: visual test crashes with glsl disabled with nvidia 190 drivers | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
19474 | Team Fortress 2 crashes on startup with an assertion failure | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
19522 | Team Fortress 2 (TF2) missing menu fonts | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
19874 | clicking on a window's client area does not give it keyboard focus | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
20053 | Team-Fortress 2 and other source games suffer from black menu and missing UI textures in dx9 mode | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
20602 | thread/cpu affinity not correct with multi core enabled source engine games | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
21534 | TF2 stops when pushing on the key : "Display multiplayer scores" (tab key by default) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
23386 | TF2 throws pixel shader 1.1 error when started with -dxlevel 9 | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
23484 | Texture missing on briefcase in Team Fortress 2 | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
23578 | Team Fortress 2: Significant lag disrupts gameplay... | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
24064 | Many steam games crash because of GameOverlayRenderer.dll | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
24166 | Team Fortress 2 freezes while playing (with ATI driver) | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
24667 | On ATI Radeon HD 5xxx (and probably 6xxx) all source-based games flicker and can't render some objects and NPCs | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
24684 | Multiple Source engine based games (Steam): out-of-order rendering, bloom effect and lights are visible through walls when multicore rendering is enabled | NEW | View | |
25150 | Some effects are rendered upside down in source engine games | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
25256 | Source based games won't start (Team Fortress 2) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
26713 | Team Fortress 2 (Steam) crashes in the menu | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
26714 | Teamfortress 2 issues with lighting (tf2) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
26818 | Team Fortress 2 crashes within 30 secs of map load with xorg 1.10.1 installed | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
27156 | Bioshock demo: mouse jumps around menu | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
27453 | Lag when loading new sound in source games | NEW | View | |
27779 | Desktop mouse pointer always visible in Steam games | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
27844 | Team Fortress 2 lockup | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
28066 | Sound stops after some time (restarting sound in game usually possible) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
29294 | No sound with ALSA loopback devices | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
50354 | Team Fortress 2 crashes during loading | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
This section is Optional how ever it may greatly improve the stability and frame rate you achieve with TF2.
Team Fortress 2 can be run from Steam or from the command line.
To start TF2 using the command line:
WINEDEBUG=-all wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/steam.exe -applaunch 440 -nointro
See Steam Official Troubleshooting and Steam Classic Troubleshooting for any issues related to Steam itself.
This bug was introduced in a TF2 update at the start of 2010. Another update ~May 2010 is believed to have fixed it. If you are still experiencing this bug, please comment on bug #21534. There are two potential solutions.
1) The bug can be worked around by playing TF2 at a resolution with less than 1024 pixels of height.
2) A minor edit to the theme of TF2 fixes the crash consistently.
Thanks to rasmus.ry for posting this. More information is available in bug #21534.
In the most cases, this bug is caused by the Steam In-Game Overlay, to solve Open your winecfg, go to Libraries, add a new Library called gameoverlayrender and set to disabled, the Steam In-Game Overlay and screenshot will not work.
Note: Also solved by properly compiled Wine with supported gcc versions.
If you can connect to some servers and not others consistently it is most likely caused by the MOTD displayed at the start of any match. This can disabled for all servers via the in-game options.
Options -> Multiplayer -> Advanced -> Disable MOTD (checkbox).
This also happens with some languages has some symbols that Wine can't handle and Team Fortress 2 is a game that is full translated, so, when you connect some servers the engine load this fonts and crash TF2, to solve-it just set language of Steam to english, all the games will be english. This bug happens with portuguese, but, can happen with other languages as well.
Unfortunately there are many reasons for these crashes. Try reducing screen resolution, lover video settings (shadow, textures quality, etc). If the bug is consistent please consider reporting it or filing a bug report if one doesn't already exist.
See bug #23578. Valve updated their anti-cheat code with the Engineer update and WINE did not handle this well. This bug also affected at least some other games launched from Steam. There is a fix for this in git after 21 July 2010. All 1.3.x versions should contain this fix. 1.2 does NOT contain this fix, but the patch applies cleanly to the 1.2 source. 1.2.1 does contain this fix, so the most recent stable or the most recent development versions should just both work fine now.
This is caused by the new implementation of mouse input in wine, to solve-it, you need to run the game in Windowed mode or into a Virtual Desktop.
Thanks to Frozen Fox and others, this bug has another solution that is download and install a Wine version to before than 1.3.20 (because this is the version that was set the new mouse implementation).
Download here the Source for Wine 1.3.19.
Note: This bug was solved in the newset versions of wine.
This bug is related with the last Team Fortress update and some nvidia video cards, you can solve it by adding -nod3d9ex at the launch option into the game, to do that, right click at the game on steam, go to Proprieties and click into Set Launch Options.
If Team Fortress 2 crash and you can't solve, you can try these steps:
Right on-time for holidays Valve delivers!
Valve's post on Steam for Linux forum.
The Steam for Linux beta program is now open to the public! In order to participate in the beta, you must download the latest Steam Linux client (found here) or upgrade your existing Steam for Linux client to the latest version.
In addition, we will now track Steam for Linux client bugs using GitHub. This provides a better interface for tracking bugs than the forums used in the closed beta. The Steam for Linux repository (currently empty) is public, allowing anyone with a free GitHub account to create a new issue and edit or track it and search the existing bug database. The repository contains a readme file (README.md) detailing how to create a new issue (it describes the same format used in the closed beta).
The team will continue working through existing issues in the forum but it is strongly recommended that any new issues be entered using GitHub's issue tracking interface. The sub forums will remain open so that people can join/continue existing discussions about the Steam for Linux client.
And last but not least, we now have a steam installer package repository. There is a mailing list for announcing updates to the steam installer package. To subscribe, use the public mailman page located here: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/steamrepo.
dpkg-deb -xv steam_latest.deb /tmp/steam
tar xJf /tmp/steam/usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz -C ~/Steam
~/Steam/steam.sh
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by Corollax on Friday August 7th 2015, 13:56
Hopefully, you can revise the instructions to include this, but I can't edit it with normal user permissions.