TF2 Big load times, and sometimes not at all.

[Gregg Housh]

Started steam from the command line, so I could watch. After double clicking on TF2 it starts loading. One big issue I see is a bunch of lines saying: ####### Log failed to open /tmp/gameoverlayrenderer.log #############

Then it loads the cache, takes forever:

Precache: Took 58984 ms, Vertex 1010, Pixel 2178
Game.so loaded for "Team Fortress"

Now its just sitting there, I can see the grey screen with buildings sort of faded out, waiting for the menus to show up. This could be stuck, or next time it could take 10 minutes, or it could take 5 minutes.

Then if I try and play and happen to get on a server that makes me download a file, it crashes instantly. It cannot download any custom files.

So that's where I am. If I try for about an hour I can sometimes get in and play.

UPDATE:
It is also having the ld preload problem:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

[Gregg Housh]

One problem fixed, for some reason the file /tmp/gameoverlayrenderer.log was owned by root, so my user couldn't open it. Removed the file and that error went away.

[Arxcis]

Bump!

I got this problem asweelll, big loading times , almost impossible to join friends! because their game is finished when/if I get in.

[StuckMojo]

+1
I had just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it working by fixing the symlink problem this morning. It started and made it into the menu in short order, then I had to work.
Went to start it tonight, and TF2 updated itself first. Now it gets stuck at the loading screen just after the valve movie. top says MainThrd is sucking 100% cpu. I gave it a minute or two then killed it, after which steam itself was fine. I verified game files, but same behavior.
Serious Sam BFE still works fine.
Kinda sucks that I didn't try to play it this morning :(

[StuckMojo]

Aha! Taking a cue from a different thread, it looks like it added some windows files when it updated just now:

jon@stuck:/usr/local/Steam/SteamApps/stuckmojosteam/Team Fortress 2/bin/linux32$ ls -l
total 156
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 45568 Dec 7 19:14 binkawin.asi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 35840 Dec 7 19:14 mssmixer.mix
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 71168 Dec 7 19:14 mssmp3.asi
jon@stuck:/usr/local/Steam/SteamApps/stuckmojosteam/Team Fortress 2/bin/linux32$ file *
binkawin.asi: PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
mssmixer.mix: PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
mssmp3.asi: PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
jon@stuck:/usr/local/Steam/SteamApps/stuckmojosteam/Team Fortress 2/bin/linux32$ date
Fri Dec 7 19:39:07 CST 2012
jon@stuck:/usr/local/Steam/SteamApps/stuckmojosteam/Team Fortress 2/bin/linux32$

[A.T. Hun]

I've experienced some long load times too. I timed it. With my i5-750 it takes almost 50 seconds for the game itself to load. It took a whopping two minutes and 22 seconds to load the second Soldier training mission.

[Al@rm]

I have the same problem with my laptop ( Intel HD 4000 and i7 ), in contrast to my desktop with i3 and nvidia grafic card.
TF2 shows gray picture during several minutes.
I found a lot of identical lines in /tmp/gameoverlayui.log:
Warning: The game hasn't rendered a frame from us in over 10 seconds
In /tmp/gameoverlayrenderer.log
Sat Dec 08 11:59:19 2012 UTC - Texture units detected: 8
Sat Dec 08 12:03:17 2012 UTC - XUngrabPointer 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:17 2012 UTC - XUngrabKeyboard 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:19 2012 UTC - XUngrabPointer 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:19 2012 UTC - XUngrabKeyboard 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:42 2012 UTC - XUngrabPointer 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:42 2012 UTC - XUngrabKeyboard 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:43 2012 UTC - XUngrabPointer 0x9900388 time 0
Sat Dec 08 12:03:43 2012 UTC - XUngrabKeyboard 0x9900388 time 0
In STDOUT:
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
Loaded program cache file "glbaseshaders.cfg", total keyvalues: 266, total successfully linked: 266
Loaded program cache file "glshaders.cfg", total keyvalues: 658, total successfully linked: 658
Precache: Took 164421 ms, Vertex 2005, Pixel 2293
Game.so loaded for "Team Fortress"

[headlesscyborg]

I have same issue.

Loading to the main menu takes a very long time. And after it, it takes much longer to join to the server.
Often it hangs on gray loading screen with buildings and never load to main menu. I launching TF2 on several attempts - sometime I need to reboot whole computer and try it again.

Terminal Output: http://pastebin.com/YNWXZKJL

System specs:

AMD Radeon HD6470M, 12.11 beta11 driver manual installed
Cinnamon 1.6.7 (PPA update)

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    Speed: 1400 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported
    
Network Information:
    Network Speed:  
    
Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.6.0-030600-generic
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11103000
    
Video Card:
    Driver:  ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series

    Driver Version:  4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID:  0x1002
    DeviceID:  0x6760
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  2
    Primary Display Resolution:  1360 x 768
    Desktop Resolution: 1360 x 768
    Primary Display Size: 13,54" x 7,60"  (15,51" diag)
                                            34,4cm x 19,3cm  (39,4cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI
    
Memory:
    RAM:  3418 Mb
    
Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  593389 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  135822 Mb
    
Installed software:
    
Recent Failure Reports:
    

[sorath]

I encounter the same problem today. I receive an invitation to beta test last evening and install "Team Fortress 2" (this night) then I run it and all was seem normal to start - I even play first training. But this morning I try to start TF2 again and games seems freeze on "Game.so loaded for "Team Fortress" after playing Valve logo when "Loading..." screen appears.

[BoatX]

Got that same problem. really long loading time

Specification:

Processor	4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory	3275MB (1284MB used)
Resolution	1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer	Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL Vendor	Intel Open Source Technology Center
Version	3.0 Mesa 9.0.1
Direct Rendering	Yes
Kernel	Linux 3.6.5-1-ARCH (i686)

[Bepis]

Horrible loading times.

Using Kubuntu 12.10 64 bit, compositing disabled.
Phenom II X2 555 BE
4 GB RAM
nVidia GTX 560 Ti

[Frank]

Added to the bug database.

[[LINUX]FinCoder]

Takes ages to load for me too!

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3812 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.7.0-030700rc7-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300902

[abelthorne]

Similar problem too. Although launching TF2 is longer than on Windows it is still usable. But connecting to servers/loading games is incredibly long. On Windows it takes 30 sec to 1 min to join a game (which is already quite long). On Linux, I've measured it to more than 3 min.

Both on the same computer, of course.
Lubuntu-ish 12.10 64 bits (no compositing)
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450
4 Gb RAM
GPU: AMD RadeonHD 5770

[Al@rm]

İlk olarak Frank tarafından gönderildi:

Added to the bug database.

I can't find this issue in github =( Could you give a link please? I want to subscribe on the thread about this problem.

[Spuzaw]

Same here. Very long load times.

Specs:
Linux Mint Mate 64bit
AMD Radeon HD 7950 (13.2 beta 6 driver)
i5 3570k
8GB RAM