| STATUS: playable | Steam Store Page: click here |
| Wine Versions: 1.3.12 | |
| Virtual-Desktop: yes | Full-screen: yes |
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WINE SETTINGS:
No library overrides were required
GAME SETTINGS:
Plays fine at various resolutions and settings.
RUNNING THE GAME:
All appears to play fine :)
PROBLEMS NOTED:
- ATI Cards seem to still cause the game to crash randomly
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I’m going to try running this as my first Steam Game on Linux! Wine version 1.3.13, wish me luck!
As long as you have a decent NVIDIA card and running the proprietary drivers it should work…
I have a corded Xbox 360 controller & headset, what’s compatibility like getting it to run in Linux (ubuntu 10.10) for use with source engine games as well as Skype?
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1445-TKCN-0831
Found out that the headset does not work in Linux (yet)
Question – have you tried the current open source ATI drivers? Overall, they seem to have really gotten good in the past 6 months. (It seems like ATI cards used to have pretty crappy floss and proprietary drivers.) I’d like to hear your experience since I’m currently getting steam set up for the first time and have a ATI graphics. I’m finding this site really helpful – what a great resource.
haven’t used ATI with linux for awhile – will have a go with latest drivers on my other test pc with ATI card and see how it goes with TF2 :)
The game randmomly crashes on ATI Radeon HD5750
The same. The game crashes in ATI HD5770 after short time.
I think to be the gpu overheating problem because the computer crashes. Reset is the solution.
Realmente decepcionante.
Phenom II X4 3.00Ghz
HD5770
Chakra Linux
Wine 1.5.1
Some ATI cards seem to have random crashing issues with Valve games… If you game on Linux get an NVIDIA card.
i can’t get steam to work properly, once i install it. it opens for a couple a minutes but i can’t access the store to download team fortress two, and then it quits. how do fix this problem?
I’ve got a problem hopefully one of you can resolve. I have steam and a few games installed (MW2, L4D,), but when I go to install TF2 (no cd, just steam install) it locks at the end of creating cache files (the initial setup). Even if I restart steam and/or wine all it says is starting download, but nothing ever starts. Really like this game and hate Windows so this is killing me, lol. Hope someone has an answer.
Did you install Steam using “winetricks steam” in terminal? – that will put Steam in it’s own wineprefix – install it and try installing TF2 from that installation. Note – rename any desktop Steam shortcuts BEFORE you install Steam via winetricks… then the new Steam icon after Steam install rename to “Steam Winetricks” or something as that will be the link to the new Steam install… let us know how you go :)
I tried installing Steam, through the terminal, with the same results. PlayonLinux choosing Team Fortress 2, PlayonLinux choosing Steam, and Winetricks all render the same results. It sets up the install and just hangs with a full progress bar stuck at “Preparing Team Fortress 2 files for install…”. I’m giving it more than ample time to finish (max time 2hrs to test), and all it does is continue to blink … . All my other games downloads and install just fine, including other Source games. I’m at a loss for rhyme and reason. Is it maybe do to the recent update to free-to-play?
I installed this game just fine, but then it doesn’t create shortcut to game (like it did for Half-Life 2 and its Episodes, which run fine).
Then, when I start the game, it shows the Valve logo and the copyright info as normal. Then…nothing. Just a black screen. After a few seconds it shows the menu, but it’s still black! The only difference is that I can see the menu options! No title, no background image, the only things I can see are the individual menu options, my cursor, and a black background. I click Start Playing, it shows only the text parts of the select game type. This continues through the loading screen, and finally it crashes with the error message “Failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer”.
I run Ubuntu 11.10 with Wine 1.3.28, and an NVIDIA GT218.
Make sure you install into a clean wineprefix. Also try upgrading Wine to the latest version.
I’m having problems, I have TF2 installed fine under Linux Mint but when I go to run the game all i get is the preparing to launch game screen which eventually disappears to be replaced by nothing. I can continue to try doing this and steam recognises I’m doing so because it updates its last played to today but the game will not launch. I also have this problem with half-life 2 episode 2, but not half-life 2 or episode one (which work fine). Any ideas?
What version Mint + what are your specs + where is Steam installed? Did you disable gameoverlayrenderer.dll under the libraries tab in wine config? It should be disabled…