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Minor personal keybind changes.
Don't bother if you aren't going to use gyro it will be hard to play.
-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1
Using DarHUD and mastercomfig
Depending on the HUD a font may be a bit misaligned/mismatched
Everything works
If you're using a custom HUD you need to rename every file in the HUD's folder to not have any uppercase letters. Weird but without this either the hud will be broken or fonts will be missing.
prime-run %command%
works out of the box
In the case of my LOQ gaming laptop, it ran great! No need to adjust from Quiet mode to Performance mode, unlike in Windows.
-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1
mastercomfig-low
Runs flawlessly, especially when ran with mastercomfig. Runs even better than it does on Windows. No issues on my end.
It was very surprising that this game ran perfectly on Linux, especially on my gaming laptop. I think I'll just play on this platform instead. Yay!
Even with the little quirks, it's an overall better experience than on Windows. Better performance and (in my experience) visual clarity.
-novid -no_texture_stream
Added an autoexec.cfg and other custom cfg files. Nothing different from Windows
When unreving the Tomislav you can hear a "screeching" sound. It's not loud and you will only notice it when there isn't much action going on, but it can get annoying after a while.
Also I've played a few matches where some sound effects decide not to play at random times (hitsounds, killsounds, the music in some taunts, killcams, etc).
As for July 29th 2025, the font file containing the CJK characters for the UI is missing from the game files (despite the license.txt for it existing). Even if you are playing in English, this will cause problems down the road (for example, custom weapon names written in Japanese appearing as blank).
The way I fixed this is installing Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer from Steam, going to '[route to your SDK installation folder]/platform/resource/linux_fonts/' and copying 'notosanscjk-regular.ttc' into '[route to your TF2 installation folder]/platform/resource/linux_fonts/'. You can safely uninstall the SDK after finnishing.
There are other characters that your client can't render, usually Microsoft propietary fonts. But there isn't much we can do about this. Fortunely, unlike CJK, you will come across these characters very rarely (for example, quirky names with ASCII art in the scoreboard), so they will be far from an annoyance.
About mods:
Most of them are made with only the Windows version in mind, so there are some that may not work or even crash your game (in my experience, the later happened with this one mod: https://gamebanana.com/mods/325900. If you are going crazy because your game keeps crashing and you don't know why, this may be the cause, or other mods). Also remember that Linux file systems are case sensitive, so if you have mods in your 'tf/custom' directory installed as "folder mods" make sure those folders' names are in lowercase (remove any space too, just in case), otherwise the game won't load them. VPK files are fine, though.
Must disable "Force Composition Pipeline" and by extension "Force Full Composition Pipeline" or use the OpenGL backend (ToGL) with -gl to fix freezing issue
Game freeze when using the default Vulkan backend using DXVK with Fullscreen or noborder. Sound will play when tabbed out but not while tabbed in, system is unresponsive when tabbed in so you can't alt+tab, not even the num/caps/scroll lock lights respond, it's needed to swap to another tty to actually "tab out",
When enabling the in-game vsync I experience really awful input lag. It actually did remove tearing though, unlike everything else I've tried.
Everything works better than windows when vsync is off though, not like the vsync actually worked on windows though, it didn't.
Some settings do not apply unless restarted or done through launch arguments, The option for vsync (mat_vsync) is an example for this, it has both problems. It needs a restart to apply but only works if specified through launch arguments
I blame all of these issues on the nvidia driver.
gamemoderun %command% -windowed -noborder -refresh 144 -console -steam
a few things didn't load (mostly just weapon models), but it's alright
fullscreen would just freeze the operating system, had to restart and put [ -windowed -noborder ] in the launch options
initially could not connect to casual because of VAC issues, this was fixed by getting my secure boot out of setup mode. (sometimes it would show a SteamNetworkingSockets error upon startup in the console, but this was fixed by restarting steam)
medic!
TF2 with some mild configuration works like a charm. If you care about playing it on the go, there's not much better.
The default layout will most likely be weird to use. Modify it how you like, and it will be more playable.
Crashes SPECIFICALLY if you install to the SD card.
Works as expected. Have not seen any issues.
I will say that Tf2 is subjectively-to-objectively better with a mouse and keyboard, and there's not many games I say that for. I don't have a high-quality laptop, but as with any Valve game, it can be configured to run on the hot garbage I own. So I personally prefer it that way. However, the game on the Steam Deck is more than playable, so I can't not recommend it. Do what you like.
works great, can be improved with configs
i recommend using a custom hud and mastercomfig
Ran it natively with the Legacy OpenGL version.
The Vulkan version was locked to my 2nd monitor's 60hz refresh rate even though it was running on my 170hz main one. The OpenGL version didn't have that issue. Also I couldn't run any launch commands even though I tried "-fps max 170" and "fps max 170".
-windowed -noborder -novid
Created folder in Team Fortress2/tf/custom called "noshaderlinking" which contains two empty files inside of it called "glbaseshaders.cfg" and "glshaders.cfg".
Crashes when trying to run it without some launch options related to fullscreen. Added -windowed -noborder to the launch options which fixed the crash on launch.
Rarely crashes at random.
At the time of writing this, i have to wait for like 30 seconds in the menu so that it can connect to the TF2 coordinator server. This may be flawful only on my part or this could be a valve-side issue at the moment, but just in case i will write it down here nonetheless. Definitely not the end of the world, but can get annoying at times.
In my experience, without tinker TF2 was completely unplayable. Not having "-windowed -noborder" in the launch options would result the game crashing on launch. I was also getting crashes when i tried to queue into a match. Creating a folder called "noshaderlinking" in the tf/custom directory then adding two empty files called "glbaseshaders.cfg" and "glshaders.cfg" inside of it has fixed the crash while queuing for me.
mangohud %command% -exec autoexec -novid
The intro vid is loud :(
I strongly recommend using -novid (it also improves launch time)
Just don't use Legacy OpenGL, it makes the game look bad, and it's slower.
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland %command% -novid -nojoy
Very minor black boxes on the title screen
-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1
Recomendo usar o MasterComfig para configurar o jogo.
Meu ping ficou levemente melhor no Linux doque no Windows.
Hospedar Servidores com os servidores da Steam funciona perfeitamente!
Funciona perfeitamente.
-novid -no_texture_stream -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -useforcedmparms -noforceaccel -noforcemspd +m_rawinput 1
There may be problems with other programs running or with the laptop heating up. With full servers there may be a drop in performance. Or with some modes, maps.
-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -precachefontchars +exec autoexec.cfg
Graphics configs are a must for either high FPS or high fidelity. I use mastercomfig "High" with mat_picmip -10 and some spray enable commands
Works as well as it does on Windows.
Improved default hud is also a nice addition. Sprays are easiest to make on this website: https://rafradek.github.io/Mishcatt/
-novid -no_texture_stream -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -console -w 1024 -h 768 -fullscreen
I had trouble launching the game in full screen, so I had to use the -windowed option. After setting the game's graphics (leaving the textures on "medium"), I was able to return to full screen without any problems.
Sometimes the game crashed but was for the initial video config
Considering my hardware, I was able to record TF2 with OBS without any issues, something I couldn't do on Windows 11.
Perfect
Perfect linux port for over a decade now.
-novid -no_texture_stream -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -useforcedmparms -noforceaccel -noforcemspd +m_rawinput 1
in vulkan i get fullscreen issues, all is fine in Opengl
Make sure to disable xfwm compositor
Vulkan has fullscreen issues not Opengl, make sure to disable xfvm compositor to eliminate input lag.
The site seems to think this is a tinker report... it isn't, it works out of box no issue. Just be sure to select OpenGL when launching
gamemoderun %command%
Some UI elements are messed up with ToonHUD
Runs better than Windows, extremely minor UI problems
%command% -w 1920 -h 1080 -refreshrate 75
Fullscreen causes the game to try and swap to an invalid refresh rate, turns the screen black, and leaves me with broken display settings on reboot that cause slight flickering until I reset the refresh rate.
Using ToGL used to be fast, now it's completely shit and DXVK is better than what it was before. These issues are probably caused by an update to nvidia drivers if I put two and two together.
Perfection, works better than windows installation does.
Better than windows! not sure how but everythig seemed much smoother and FPS was probably 60 + more than I would get normally on windows
Ditch windows!
exactly as on windows but better
no issues
if you dont mind some stuff being slightly off you're going to have fun
stock hud had no payload progress bar and FlawHUD had some of its icons a bit off, also TF2 Build font applied to other languages
first 10 seconds had micro lags every second
same as on windows but 20 fps more
It's Team Fortress 2, running perfectly at 60FPS
TF2 was not designed for controllers and you aren't matched with others using controllers, so online play will be horrible.
I did lower the graphics settings a little to get a bit of a preformance boost, but it should play fine on default settings.
