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2mac

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 95

[SOLVED] Team Fortress 2 is unusable

I recently switched over to Arch, and after getting Bumblebee set up with my NVIDIA card, I decided to give Steam gaming a try. After launching TF2, I noticed that after the initial Valve splash animation, everything became VERY slow. Everything down to the menus was extremely behind and sometimes unresponsive. Even the sound had lag. This doesn't seem like a hardware problem.

I'm using the Mesa OpenGL driver, because the game wouldn't launch if I used the NVIDIA one (and other OpenGL games seem to be running just fine with it, Minecraft for example). I also have an Intel card that experiences the same issues. Here's some info about my system:

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile 
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.0.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.0.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

$ optirun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 750M/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 331.20
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.20
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

optirun glxinfo | grep "direct render"
direct rendering: Yes

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)

$ lspci | grep 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev a1)

Is this a setup problem on my side, or is Linux TF2 just that awful?

Last edited by 2mac (2013-12-27 05:16:08)

2mac

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] Team Fortress 2 is unusable

Furthermore, Kerbal Space program also has a similar issue. Might be a Steam issue, but it's hard to tell. Then again, 2D games like King Arthur's Gold run flawlessly.

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 391

Re: [SOLVED] Team Fortress 2 is unusable

Probably you are running x86_64 and you don't have all the required lib32 packages.

silverhammermba

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Registered: 2011-04-14

Posts: 156

Re: [SOLVED] Team Fortress 2 is unusable

Did you figure this out 2mac? TF2 also slows down my computer, which I think is because it's using 3GB of memory. Please post your solution if you did indeed solve this.