Left 4 Dead 2 hangs within 5 minutes after loading map

steamclosed Intel driversreviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3686 · opened 2015-01-24 by rawcoder · updated 2015-02-18 · 3 comments · github

Rrawcoder 2015-01-24 github

I've been facing this issue for the past 2 months.

Sometimes the game runs smoothly for 3-4 hours without any hitch. But recently it just hangs within 5 minutes after starting the game.
It happens in both offline and online mode.

System Information:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    CPU Family:  0x6
    CPU Model:  0x3c
    CPU Stepping:  0x3
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  3200 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 14.10 (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.16.0-29-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11600000
    X Window Manager:  Compiz
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2015-01-06

Video Card:
    Driver:  Intel Open Source Technology Center Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x8086
    DeviceID:  0x412
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 18.74" x 10.55"  (21.50" diag)
                                            47.6cm x 26.8cm  (54.6cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel Haswell HDMI

Memory:
    RAM:  7769 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_IN
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  762906 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  286822 Mb

TTele42 2015-01-24 github

Please test a bleeding edge version of mesa, perhaps from oibaf or xorg-edgers ppa, if the problem persists, then this should also be reported to the mesa devs.

Rrawcoder 2015-01-25 github

Thanks for your response.
I installed the oibaf ppa and played in single mode for ~2 hours without any hang or crash.
The latest code seems to have fixed the problem.

Rrawcoder 2015-02-18 github

Reverted back to official ubuntu packages (mesa 10.3.2).
Working fine for now.

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