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?