Left 4 Dead Forum

I just bought L4D as a part of Steam's holiday sale. The L4D2 demo worked fine, so I was expecting this to work similarly, however certain objects are appearing overlaid on top of everything else. So far all I've noticed this happening with are the helicopter at the start of No Mercy (which, now in front of everything, looks like a toy helicopter hovering above the survivors) and all the doors. It really ruins the whole feel to see a bunch of doors everywhere you look. Does anyone know what to do about this? I'm running CrossOver Games 8.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Thats a new one, never heard of that. What video card do you have and what do you have your in game graphics set to?

Btw the newest version of crossover is 8.1.3 but I don't think it will make much of a difference

I've got an ATI RadeonHD 2600. My in game graphics are just set to the defaults, besides changing the aspect ratio and resolution.

Hmm I heard there were some issues with Macs and ATI cards, but Im not sure if they would affect this.

Trying lowering your graphics and some of the tricks in the Tips and Tricks part (Ignore the Direct X SDK one, that ones included in 8.X)

Nothing seems to help. Interestingly enough, lowering the graphics settings actually makes it WORSE. The survivors and zombies appear on top of everything as well.

That's a rather crappy bug in the GLSL implementation on the card you have. We saw it during development on our own systems, but it went away after a few changes, so we thought we averted the bug. Apparently not ☹️

A workaround is to disable GLSL. See the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/wine/Direct3D/UseGLSL registry key(go to programs->run command, enter "regedit" into the textbox). If you set it to "disabled"(without the quotes), GLSL will not be used, and the bug shouldn't be hit, but Shader Model support drops to SM 2.0 instead of 3.0. (If the key does not exist, just create it - it is a string value)

There doesn't appear to be a directory in my bottle under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D. There IS HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/AppDefaults/hl2.exe/Direct3D, which is what I've used to change registries for Source games before. I tried changing it there, and it didn't work.

try to create an appdefault for left4dead.exe. The executable name is different in this game. Not sure why Valve changed it.

Okay, now I can't figure out how to create a new directory. Help?

EDIT: Spoke too soon, I got it. Trying now.

Either right-click, or to to Edit->New->Key

Even though regedit uses the folder symbol, those things are called "Keys" in the registry, as opposed to "Values", which are just a name-value pair. That can be kinda confusing.

That seems to have done the trick. Thank you very much!