Team Fortress 2 Issues

wat · Post by **wat** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:17 am

Hello there,

After downloading the latest version of wine, latest graphics drivers and install Steam through PlayOnLinux, I tried to launch Team Fortress 2.
The initial Valve sound played and then the menu soud, but there was absolutely no video/display. Checking the processes list, hl2.exe was still running, so obviously something is going wrong here.
My system should be fine, as I used to run TF2 in Windows before switching to Ubuntu, but here are the specs & software:

PlayOnLinux 3.5
Wine v1.0.1-0ubuntu6
Ubuntu (Gnome)

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Resolution: Dual monitors, both 1680 x 1050

Thanks in advance for any help.

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:37 pm

wat wrote:Hello there,

After downloading the latest version of wine, latest graphics drivers and install Steam through PlayOnLinux, I tried to launch Team Fortress 2.
The initial Valve sound played and then the menu soud, but there was absolutely no video/display. Checking the processes list, hl2.exe was still running, so obviously something is going wrong here.
My system should be fine, as I used to run TF2 in Windows before switching to Ubuntu, but here are the specs & software:

PlayOnLinux 3.5
Wine v1.0.1-0ubuntu6
Ubuntu (Gnome)

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Resolution: Dual monitors, both 1680 x 1050

Thanks in advance for any help.

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. Ask on their support forum.

wat · Post by **wat** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:07 pm

Yeah I pretty much gave up on POL.

However, I am now trying to run it straight through Wine and am getting the exact same problem. Any ideas?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:02 pm

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM, wat<[email protected]> wrote:

Yeah I pretty much gave up on POL.

However, I am now trying to run it straight through Wine and am getting the exact same problem. Any ideas?

Upgrade to 1.1.23.

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-Austin

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:09 pm

wat wrote:However, I am now trying to run it straight through Wine and am getting the exact same problem. Any ideas?

Few things:
- Have you suspended pulseaudio?
- Have you disabled Seam community in-game?
- Have you set hl2.exe to win98?
- Have you disabled compiz / 3d desktop effects?
- Have you added "-dxlevel 81" to the TF2's command line options?

wat · Post by **wat** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:18 am

Upgrade to 1.1.23.

Done, not working.

- Have you suspended pulseaudio?
- Have you disabled Seam community in-game?
- Have you set hl2.exe to win98?
- Have you disabled compiz / 3d desktop effects?
- Have you added "-dxlevel 81" to the TF2's command line options?

No.
No, I can't even get in-game.
No, tried it and it didn't work.
Yes, still doesn't work.
Yes.

haarp · Post by **haarp** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:39 pm

wat wrote: No, I can't even get in-game.

He meant disable "Seam community in-game" in the Steam settings

wat · Post by **wat** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:10 pm

Ah right. Well yeah, I have tried that and it didn't work.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:32 pm

wat wrote:Ah right. Well yeah, I have tried that and it didn't work.

Read what I asked/suggested again and do all on that list. The biggest one of them being pulseaudio. Consult your distro forum how to do it properly.

wat · Post by **wat** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:28 am

Tried everything else already. Just tried disabling PulseAudio, I get a 1-second flash of the Valve loading screen before it disappears (with no sounds). So that didn't work.

Okay, I managed to get it to run in a window, but it freezes at the loading screen after the Valve splash logo.

Addys · Post by **Addys** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:57 pm

wat wrote:Tried everything else already. Just tried disabling PulseAudio, I get a 1-second flash of the Valve loading screen before it disappears (with no sounds). So that didn't work.

Okay, I managed to get it to run in a window, but it freezes at the loading screen after the Valve splash logo.

I had to go through a lot of wineprefixes to get tf2 right. Sometimes the files would just get corrupt and so on. Here's a small checklist that has chances to get it working

Feel free to skip to step 5 directly first, and try from the beginning if that doesn't work.

1. Create a fresh WINEPREFIX to any location you like. I like to keep mine in .wine/prefixes)
2. Install steam to that wineprefix (WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/prefixes/steam wine start SteamInstall.msi)
3. Install TF2 there; move the files in steamapps if you don't have the time to redownload.
4. Disable Steam Community in-game layer in File=>Settings=>In-game
5. Change launch options to the following: -dxlevel 81 -windowed -noborder -width 1440 -height 900 -novid
(Tweak the resolution if necessary)

Also make sure you are running recent nvidia drivers. 9800GTX+ running 185.19 here, best is anything 180+. I removed pulseaudio entirely, too, but it may work with if you're lucky.
Apart from the graphics card I got exactly your configuration, it should work just fine.

wat · Post by **wat** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:40 am

Nope, tried everything there and it still won't work. Graphics drivers are 180.

wat · Post by **wat** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:40 pm

Sorry to double post, but I still don't have this sorted.

Conzar · Post by **Conzar** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:09 pm

I'm having the same problem with wine-1.1.23 on Gentoo. When I revert back to wine-1.1.12, then I can actually launch the game. When I try to connect to a server or try to create a server, then I get the CAudio... error that others have seen. None of the fixes for the CAudio works either.

Any ideas?