Added this section on top of guide. Everything got little big and bad for the overview.
Since 2014 the switch to linux and the big f*ckn mess with Killing Floor. Several 100 hours of testing on different devices/kernels/drivers/versions/combinations.
For more details/information you can still read the other sections.
As summary my advise, preferred settings.

Some Notes:
#1: This Guide was written with a lot of beer
#2: Linux is already the feature, even Einstein said it 100 years ago.
#3: Pushing the upratebutton would be nice *thumbs up*
#4: Sharing information to give community best experience in most awesome game in history

At first: Why wanna run KF via D3D9 instead of OpenGL, while OpenGL without nearly no tweaks runs perfectly fine?
Projectors in KillingFloor via OpenGL has no function. No Blooddecals are rendered.
-> Key feature of this game.
Other parts for projectors missing too, like red laser dot for mbr, projected lights etc...

Force Killing Floor via Proton 9, use GE custom build or which comes with steam.
In combination with D3D9 and Proton9 use dgvoodoo2 als D3D9toD3D12 wrapper, to fix stutter with activated projectors.
Optimize killing floor and dgvoodoo settings.

Proton10 fixes bugs again which causes newly with Proton9:
Game starts directly in fullscreen again.
Ingame brightness, gamma, contrast settings are reconized again, doesn't need be adjusted with dgvoodoo color, brightness, gamma settings.


Right click Killing Floor in steam library and select Properties.
Compatibilty, select your prefered Proton9 version or custom ProtonGE 9 version
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

Note: Make sure if you disabled Steam Overlay for gaming.
in Section General, set as launch option for KF: LD_PRELOAD="" %command%
(to avoid stutter on a longer gamesession, not kf related, actuall steambug)



Start Killing Floor and go into Settings

Display:
Activate Widescreen
Disable Vertical Sync
Disable Motion Blur
Disable HDR Bloom
Scope Detail Textured

Input:
Disable Mouse Smoothing
Disable Reduce Mouse Lag
Mouse Smoothing Streng: 0.00
Mouse Accel. Treshold: 0.00

Close game, open killingfloor.ini located in: .../.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

section: [WinDrv.WindowsClient]
DrawDistanceLOD=1.0 to DrawDistanceLOD=0.0
(backround objects renders only very close - visual g*y.
Improves performance. I do not recommend and left it by 1.0, decide on your own/perfomance on your device)


section: [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
ReduceMouseLag=True to False (if not already done in ingame settings)
UseVSync=True to False (if not already done in ingame settings)
CheckForOverflow=False to True (reduces heavy framedrops a lot with firebug spam and DynLight on)

section: [Core.System]
PurgeCacheDays=0
(nothing to do with performance, downloaded server files will not be deleted after x days)

save file.

open user.ini located in .../.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

section: [Engine.Input]
MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0
to
MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=1.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=1.0

section: [Engine.PlayerInput]
change to following (if not already done in ingame settings)
MouseSmoothingMode=0
MouseSmoothingStrength=0.000000
MouseAccelThreshold=0.000000

save file.

Author Dege:
https://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

Download dgVoodoo2_79_3
https://github.com/legluondunet/mlls-tools/tree/master/dgVoodoo2
(later releases of dgvoodoo refuses to run via linux/proton)

Extract Files.
Copy dgVoodoo.conf + dgVoodooCpl.exe
and
D3D9.dll from /MS/x86/
into Killingfloor System folder: .../.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

Launch game to see if it's working, you will see in right corner dgvoodoo logo.
If so, you can directly close Killing Floor again.

Note: with actual Proton9 version ingame gamma/brightness/contrast settings are not recognized
It have to be adjusted via dgvoodoo. Maybe it gets fixed with newer Proton releases, on older ones like Proton7 it worked fine.
If it gets fixed let dgvoodoo brightness/color/contrast settings at original 100%

Configure dgVoodoo2 with GUI or with .conf
edit:You need once run dgVoodooCpl.exe with wine and select the path even .exe file copied in system folder and run from there. Noticed it on different machine, while changing only .conf to d3d12 to force vkd3d, it was still translated through dxvk. Like still dgvoodoo running with preset for api "bestavailable" which is D3D11.

GUI:
open dgVoodooCpl.exe with Wine
Make sure in Config folder / Running instance: your ...\Killingfloor\System folder is selected

Section General:
Output API: Direct3d 12 (feature level 11.0)
Brightness: 236% (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
Color: 89-93% (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
Contrast 96% (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
Select/Activate: Center app window

Section DirectX:
Videocard: dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card
VRAM: 4096 MB
Deselect/Disable dgVoodoo Watermark
----------
Configure dgVoodoo2 with .conf
open dgVoodoo.conf with editor

Section: [General]
OutputAPI = d3d12_fl11_0
or you can set manual to feature level12 (no difference on linux compared to windows)
OutputAPI = d3d12_fl12_0
Brightness = 236 (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
Color = 89 (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
Contrast = 96 (close to my original kf settings, find your own sweeetspot)
CenterAppWindow = true

Section: [DirectX]
VideoCard = internal3D
VRAM = 4096
dgVoodooWatermark = false

save file.

Done with all that stuff.

Advantages:
You will have best performance with KillingFloor D3D9 on linux you ever had.
KillingFloor ingame D3D9 with dgvoodoo to D3D12 translated via proton to VKD3D.
Blood/weapon decals are rendered and zero stutter with activated Projectors in ingame settings.
My ingame settings all maxed out at 1080p and run's awesome, nearly close to windows performance.

Disadvantages current state.
Proton9 starts game always windowed. Every gamestart you have to reselect Fullscreen in ingame options, not a big thing.
dgvoodoo in combination with Proton9 ingame gamma/brightness/contrast settings not recognized. Have to be adjusted with dgvoodoo.
Textures blurry with dgvoodoo, not as sharp directly via proton D3D9/DXVK


Linux Mint 22 (64 bit)
Kernel Version: 6.13.6-x64v3-xanmod1
Mesa 25.0~git2503060600.d2e943~oibaf~n

Settings
5player online Westlondon 150fps (limited to 144fps via kf.ini and netspeed)

Fix Perkprogression/Achievements
You have noticed your Perkprogression always resets after Mapchange or leaving the Server on Linux? And you did not get the Achievements on the beaten Maps?
Here a Guide how to fix it.
- Follow the Guide and do the steps manual per hand
- Or download the package with all whitelisted Mutators
- Or use the #binbash I wrote for extracting the Mutators from the Cachefolder
(Guide is for Mac-Users too, just different paths, they will be written below)
At the end some other issues with the Linux native build and fixes/workarounds.


If you join a server which is running any whitelisted Mutator your Steamstats will be immediately disabled.
This means your client will be handled like using a greylisted mutator. You have access to your leveled perks, during gameplay your progression will increase, but after leaving/mapchange your progression resets to the same value which was before. This also disables to gain any Achievement.
The Linuxbuild has a different folderstructure. The game itself can read the hashvalue of files, you get directly a mismatch error of files with different versions. The checkroutine of the implemented whitelistening system is coded bad. The checkroutine doesn't read/hash the Package-GUID of cached files and your perkprogression is disabled.
You can reread this in your killingfloor.log-file. There will be an entry with:
Log: STEAMSTATS: SECURITY CHECK FAILED - ../System/*****.uxx
(for ***** is the mutatorfilename written which causes the nonprogression)

#Note: Even if the serverbrowser shows the server isn't running any mutators, this can be false. This feature is bugged - depends how the server is configurated. Marked checkbox "Perks Enabled" does the same way not work proper.

The different folderstructure:
On Windows you have only one Killing Floor folder within Steam.
"...\Steam\SteamApps\common\KillingFloor"
On Linux you have two folders splitted with the gamefiles.

1. /home/USER/.killingfloor/
contains Cache-folder including cache.ini and your downloaded serverfiles
contains System-folder with your killingfloor.ini, user.ini, logfile; ucl's
2. /home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/
contains second System-folder with the Game-Binary, dll's, int's and so on
contains all the the other folders: Animations, Maps, Sounds, Textures and so on

If you join a server which is running any custom-content (Mutators, Maps, Sounds, Textures...), your client is downloading these files to your cachefolder.
All this files get stored with the Package-GUID as filename and with the fileending .uxx
(uxx is the Unreal Tournament Cache filetype)

Originally posted by Cachefolder (short output):

C48089614C255368A6C437AA943EE203-1.uxx
14914BEC4F35A3578EF6C39E7820EAD5-1.uxx
1F126EC14FBC553F61AA0CAA6CBAB571-1.uxx
4D4B098843E4E5E7B12B258AF1CF0851-1.uxx
5F7D5C104E70F82AD6CA1EBE79A116A4-1.uxx
6E4392A041BCEA191255168D475A44D4-1.uxx

Your cache.ini gets automatically an entry from the downloaded file.
With the Package-GUID and with "=" the original filename and fileending.

Originally posted by cache.ini (short output):

C48089614C255368A6C437AA943EE203-1=KFDamagePopup.u
14914BEC4F35A3578EF6C39E7820EAD5-1=KF-Doom2-Final-V7.rom
1F126EC14FBC553F61AA0CAA6CBAB571-1=KFDoorMessagesV3.u
4D4B098843E4E5E7B12B258AF1CF0851-1=KFARGChat.u
5F7D5C104E70F82AD6CA1EBE79A116A4-1=KF-Mario_Bunker_ex.rom
6E4392A041BCEA191255168D475A44D4-1=Mario_tex.utx

Now the Mutators have to be edited. Mutators have the fileending .u
Within the cache.ini you can get the information which Package-GUID belongs to what file.
Copy the filename with the fileending .u from cache.ini and rename the specific file located in the cachefolder.
After renaming the file, move the renamed .u file to the folder:
/home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

This has to be done with ALL whitelisted Mutators. After a while, joining different servers you will have all files together.
If done, you have no problems anymore in the future and your Perkprogression and Achievements are working fine.
For the overview which Mutators are whitelisted here two links:
http://www.kf-wiki.com/wiki/List_of_whitelisted_mutators
https://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/index.php?threads/all-whitelisted-packages.103899/


Locate to: /home/USER/.killingfloor/Cache/
Open cache.ini

Now we see the entries:
C48089614C255368A6C437AA943EE203-1=KFDamagePopup.u
14914BEC4F35A3578EF6C39E7820EAD5-1=KF-Doom2-Final-V7.rom
1F126EC14FBC553F61AA0CAA6CBAB571-1=KFDoorMessagesV3.u
4D4B098843E4E5E7B12B258AF1CF0851-1=KFARGChat.u
5F7D5C104E70F82AD6CA1EBE79A116A4-1=KF-Mario_Bunker_ex.rom
6E4392A041BCEA191255168D475A44D4-1=Mario_tex.utx

Now pick up the whitelisted Mutators: KFDamagePopup.u; KFDoorMessagesV3.u; KFARGChat.u
Rename the files located in the cache-folder:
C48089614C255368A6C437AA943EE203-1.uxx to KFDamagePopup.u
1F126EC14FBC553F61AA0CAA6CBAB571-1.uxx to KFDoorMessagesV3.u
4D4B098843E4E5E7B12B258AF1CF0851-1.uxx to KFARGChat.u

Move the renamed files KFDamagePopup.u; KFDoorMessagesV3.u; KFARGChat.u to the folder:
/home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/
Done. Not necessary but for the overview you can delete the specific processed lines from the cache.ini

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To speed this up and not have to do this steps manual per hand I packed all whitelisted Mutators to an Archive.
Extract the file and move all the .u files to
/home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

https://www.mediafire[DOT]com/file/wgrft5ssfb8jgva/Whitelisted.Packed.New.V54_with.Scripts.zip/file
(upload.2019/new_package2020/....reupload/....06.02.2023/16.09.2023/27.02.2024)

If the downloadlink is down, write a comment, i will reupload it.
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This Guide is the same for Mac-Users, here the two paths:

1: Library/Application Support/Killing Floor/
The equivalent to Linux: /home/USER/.killingfloor/

2. Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/Common/KillingFloor/System/
The equivalent to Linux: /home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

If extracting the Package, the files have to be moved to:
Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/Common/KillingFloor/System/

Standard tweak: Disable Reduce Mouse Lag, disable Mouse Smoothing and disable Vertical Sync in ingame settings.
or directly via .ini
killingfloor.ini in section [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
ReduceMouseLag=True to ReduceMouseLag=False
UseVSync=True to UseVSync=False
user.ini in section [Engine.PlayerInput]
MouseSmoothingMode=0
MouseSmoothingStrength=0.000000

Ultimate Performance Tweak for the native linux port.
The old UT-Engine needs CPU-Power. The power of the GPU doesn't matter, is nearly not used.
Engine uses only 1 Core of CPU. While on Windows a low-mid CPU is enough to get max and stable fps, the native Linux port runs very bad. Tweaks like disabling precaching, reducemouselag, vsync has nearly no effect to performance.
Closed maps run fine with nearly high and stable fps. Maps like Steamland, Frightyard, Hillbilly Horror, Stronghold will kill your fps, dropping down to 20 or lower fps. If a flamethrower kicks in the game, say goodbye to your frames, no matter which map or spot.

1 Core always run at limit 99% workload, the other cores are chilling at 3-9%.
At spots there the CPU provide 20-80 fps the GPU is about 3% in use.
At spots there the CPU provide 80-120 fps the GPU is about 5% in use
At spots there the CPU provide 100-200 fps the GPU is about 10% in use.
At spots there the CPU provide 200-300 fps the GPU is about 12-17% in use.
At the Mainmenu the CPU (i7-4770k) provides ~1300fps the GPU is about 37% in use.
(GPU for this results: ATI Radeon RX480 8GB)


(to show fpscounter, open console and type: stat fps)

Deactivate DrawDistance Level of Detail
open killingfloor.ini and edit in Section:
[SDLDrv.SDLClient]
DrawDistanceLOD=1.000000
to
DrawDistanceLOD=0.000000
Save file up.

Activate glthreaded, this will increase the performance a bit too, special on low fps bout ~+10%
Command for mesadriver: export mesa_glthread=true
Edit your steam-startupscript.


To have a great overlay to see the workload of your hardware use the Gallium HUD.
Edit the cores with hyperthreading to your CPU.

Tested deactivating Draw DistanceLOD on Windows, gives little more avg fps only with deactivated Dynamic Lighting. Not the same performance boost compared to Linux.
LOD edit for Windows in killingfloor.ini
[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
DrawDistanceLOD=1.000000 to DrawDistanceLOD=0.000000

(Note: [SDLDrv.SDLClient] is only for the native port)

Set Texture, Character and World Detail to low/lower. You will see no strong difference from low to highest ingame. You only see a difference on "lowest"-setting, but even this won't give you more fps. Do not compare these settings with Windows-D3D/9, win on low looks terrible, on linux with OpenGL still high detailed.

At least some Issues with the Linux Version.

(Only for Mesadriver - radeonsi, i965, iris, noveau....)
Create file with .sh extension and start steam with it.

#!/bin/sh
export vblank_mode=0 steam

1: Yap with OpenGL and Linux you have poor perfomance and on some maplocations huge fps drops, or if a firebug hardcore spams the flamethrower. (Dropping from 90fps to ~13)
Edit: Flamethrower fps drops with activated DynamicLighting can be fixes with mesadriver, have a look at section: Dynamic Lighting - Ultra Performance
2: „tilde“ is not working, you have to rebind the key. It is also not possible to open the console in the mainmenu or in the awaitinglobby.
3: You have no red laser dot with the „mbr“ (m14 ebr), even if projectors are activated in the graphic options.
4: If you copy a IP-Address you cannot paste it in the server browser or in the console. It has to be typed manually.
5: If you change your resolution your game will crash insta. A Workaround for this. Before you change resolution, switch to windowed-mode (disable in graphic options full screen), change resolution and switch back to fullscreen.
Or edit killingfloor.ini in /home/USER/.killingfloor/System/ to desired resolution
[SDLDrv.SDLClient]
FullscreenViewportX=
FullscreenViewportY=
6: Nvidia Graphic Card Bugs only, with ATI/AMD this glitches doesn't exist.
Stalkers are not invisible, they have a „metallic terminator texture“.
Some minor graphic glitches in detailing the textures of maps and models.
If you flashlight some textures, textures are gone and you only a see a gray bubble structure.
Carnivore "Securty Officer Thorne" DLC from Nightfall Character Pack has in preview and ingame no skintexture.
On kf_transit you can see only through one side of the window, on other side there's a milky closed structure.
You can't adjust brightness, gamma, contrast while ingame, only doable in mainmenu
The closed Nvidia driver per se is very good, but here is to see how wrongly they implements the api-specification of OpenGL.
7: You can‘t change the volume with your keyboard if Killing Floor is running. Workaround for this: Tab to SteamOverlay while InGame, adjust Volume and switch back to Killing Floor.
8: Some mapareas are a lot darker than they should. For this genre it looks nice :)
9: White-Blur-Grain (nearly blind) if getting attacked -> Disable Motion Blur
10: If you're moving your mouse it is capturing out of the screen. I had this problem on one of three systems. The Game starts with wrong "Displaysetting-Information". (Updating the systembuild fixed the problem). But here a workaround if using Cinnamon.
Restart your cinnamon-session.
At your login screen switch to OpenBox 0x
Your System starts now fully naked with no overlay. RightClick on your desktop -> Open Terminal and start Steam via Terminal. Start KillingFloor as usual with Steam.

The native port is always forced to use the opengl-render, even if in killingfloor.ini a other render device is selected.
There's one bug on the native port. If you launch the game and switch ingame to Direct3D your game will crash. In your killingfloor.ini the line for opengl rendering device is fully removed. (RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice), Duo no support for D3D-Rendering game tries to launch PixoDrv and will fail.

Fix with more solutions.
1. Set Launch Option: -opengl
RightClick KillingFloor in Steam, Propeterties, General -> Launch Options.
2. Add line back manually in section [Engine.Engine]
Navigate to /home/USER/.killingfloor/System/
open killingfloor.ini and paste line:
RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
remove the ";" from Pixodriver to uncomment. Order of lines does not matter
[Engine.Engine]
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
3. Delete killingfloor.ini
Navigate to /home/USER/.killingfloor/System/
At gamestart new killingfloor.ini will be generated and be forced to start again with OpenGL-Rendering.

Note for solution 2: you not even need to uncomment Pixodriver with removing ";" and there can also be a ";" infront of RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice. It is only needed that RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice in section [Engine.Engine] is placed, as written above the native build forces the game to launch with opengl, requires the opengl entry. After first game start opengl will be automatically uncommented, others commented.


Thx Heatray and GNU/PizzaDude for the input updating libSDL-1.2.so.0 in Killing Floor folder.
(I have not tested)

Heatray:
Download latest libSDL12-compat-32bit from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/khnazile:/libSDL12-compat/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_64/
Copy library from this package and replace libSDL-1.2.so.0 in KillingFloor folder.

GNU/PizzaDude
For Fedora compat is directly aviable.
Install sdl12-compat.i686 via packagemanager or terminal: sudo dnf install sdl12-compat.i686
Replace libSDL in KillingFloor folder
$ cp /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1.2.50 steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0
(Maybe set "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 %command%" in launch options)

Note: only required with NvidiaGPU+OpenGL (Native&Proton) with Proton&D3D* not required.

Invisible Stalker Fix Linux NvidiaGPU

After 12 years since KF Linux native release, I have found out how to fix the invisible stalker.

(Bug even earlier, since release of game in May 2009)
Old .utx from 2009, v1065 different version
.

Linux + Nvidia GPU, with AMD/mesa this glitch does not exist.
Stalkers not invisible, they have metalic terminator texture. Now at distance they are invisible how they should. Same bug with nvidia on windows and opengl, fixes it too.
Fixed KF_Specimens_Trip_T.utx and edited GUID to make work online without version mismatch error.

https://gamebanana.com/mods/589016

navigate to: ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\Textures\
Backup original file: KF_Specimens_Trip_T.utx

Paste KF_Specimens_Trip_T.utx from archive into folder

enjoy

Thx Psyche for the guide with editing the GUID, without it i would only managed to make work on solo.
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1372430901


This can be same way done if wanna use the uncensored, grittierr, grittier-N7, xmas or halloween zeds









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Officer Thorne Skin Fix Linux Nvidia

Created another Texture/Character Fix for Nvidia GPU

Linux Nvidia fixed skin texture Security Officer Thorne
Nightfall DLC Pack - Security Officer Thorne.
Only required for Nvidia and OpenGL, with AMD/Mesa this glitch does not exist

navigate to .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/Textures/
Create backup of original file: KF_Soldier2_Trip_T.utx
Extract archive, paste file into folder

https://gamebanana.com/mods/587544

KF_Transit Window Fix Linux NvidiaGPU

for NvidiaGPU and Linux:
With AMD/Mesa this glitch does not exist.

KF_Transit:
Fixes Window. With NvidiaGPU only through one side of window can be viewed.
The other window side is fully closed.

navigate to: ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\Textures\
Backup original file: DepartedTextures.utx

Paste DepartedTextures.utx from archive into folder

https://gamebanana.com/mods/589017

For the KF Community, me not using Nvidia (Test PC)
Nvidia doesn't fix OpenGL drivers, so the game has to be fixed.

Fixed another Texturebugs on NvidiaGPU and OpenGL - Native+Proton
(with Proton D3D8/9 not required)
With AMD/Mesa this glitches does not exist

Clientside modification. Works online and perkprogression/achievements still working.

Link:
https://gamebanana.com/mods/593844

- intransparent Broken Glass Textures (example on BioticsLab)
- Flashlighted Textures turn into gray bubble
example: Westlondon wall in front prison trader, Office walltexture house, Wyre hallway
- Foundry white floor texture
- Sirensbelch white floor texture at spawn and building
- Icebreaker bubble floor texture
- Manor black instransparent vegetation texture at house
- Office bubble texture at spawn
- Wyre black instransparent vegetation near spawn at waterfall on rock platform
- Wyre bubble texture down the waterfall, water+vegetation
- TraderWindow, in front of Trader bubble texture, other grid windows intransparent
- Transit+Departed, only through one side of window can be viewed
- Officer Thorne bubble skin, fixed skin + wiggle mutant white eyes
- Stalker metalic terminator texture at distance, not invisible
(added the texture fixes from the section above to this archive too, so only 1 file needs to be downloaded)

This fixes most texture bugs of base game/maps. If you spot other bugged textures, let me know i may fix them later.
This will fix lots of other maps too, which are using same assets from the specific .utx

Installation:
Extract Archive
navigate to: .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/Textures/
create backup of original files
Paste files from Archive into Textures folder

Archive contains:
DepartedTextures.utx
Foundry_T.utx
Icebreaker_T.utx
KF_Soldier2_Trip_T.utx
KF_Specimens_Trip_T.utx
KillingFloorLabTextures.utx
KillingFloorManorTextures.utx
KillingFloorOfficeTextures.utx
KillingFloorTextures.utx
PatchTex.utx
WyreTex.utx

Filesize Archive: 350 MB. Extracted 720 MB

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Fix for Linux/Ubuntu-Systems

Killing Floor uses his own openal.so (Open Audio Library for multichannel 3D Sound)
located in: .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/
In some cases you have annoying cracking sound or with some 7.1 systems mono-sound.
To fix it, set a symlink to libopenal.so.1 which comes with Linux.
located in: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

Option1: Filemanager + Terminal
- Open your filemanager, browse to Steam/SteamApps/common/KillingFloor/System
- Rename the original file openal.so
- Rightclick in the filemanger and open with Terminal; Terminal now opened with your KF-System-Path
- Set symlink to libopenal.so.1: ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 openal.so

Option2: Terminal only
- Open your blank Terminal
- Browse to KF Folder: cd .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System
- Create a Safety-Backup of openal.so via Terminal: mv openal.so openal.so.bak
- Set symlink to libopenal.so.1: ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 openal.so

Note: If you delete openal.so in the KF-Folder your symlink is gone. Rename the Backup and you can use the original file again.

Or use this Script I wrote for this issue.
It checks the paths if correct
Downloading libopenal.so.1 if not aviable
Creating backup of openal.so
Sets the symlink to libopenal.so.1

(Repost Code as Picture oO. Steam broke mid-end 2021 its website - half of code is removed/not displayed in public view)
https://pastebin.com/V0gz8E6m

This Script automatically checks if paths are available.
Creates a backup of cache.ini
Renames all cached Mutators to the correct filename and fileending.
Moves Files to the correct folder and removes the specific processed entries from cache.ini for the overview.

(Repost Code as Picture oO. Steam broke mid-end 2021 its website - half of code is removed/not displayed in public view)
https://pastebin.com/mfV5tZPP

If you want to have access to downloaded maps playing on Solo-Mode.
This Script automatically checks if paths are available.
Creates a backup of cache.ini
Renames all cached Maps to the correct filename and fileending.
Moves Files to the correct folder and removes the specific processed entries from cache.ini for the overview.

(Repost Code as Picture oO. Steam broke mid-end 2021 its website - half of code is removed/not displayed in public view)
https://pastebin.com/QXzRkhEQ

This Script extracts the complete cache folder with all files.
This is for example necessary for some maps to play in Solo-Mode, there is it not enough to copy only the Map (.rom file). Or you just want have all cached files with the original filename and in correct path.
Paths=../System/*.u
Paths=../Maps/*.rom
Paths=../Textures/*.utx
Paths=../Sounds/*.uax
Paths=../Music/*.umx
Paths=../StaticMeshes/*.usx
Paths=../Animations/*.ukx
This Script automatically checks if paths are available.
Creates a backup of cache.ini
Renames all cached Files to the correct filename and fileending.
Moves Files to the correct folder and removes the specific processed entries from cache.ini for the overview.

(Repost Code as Picture oO. Steam broke mid-end 2021 its website - half of code is removed/not displayed in public view)
https://pastebin.com/fL3rmuV5

The Proton rebuild is preferable to the poor ported native. Great performance.
Perkprogression Fix not needed anymore, same folderstructure like windows.
For low pc's OpenGL Rendering may recommend.
- You can change to OpenGL Render via ingame options
- or set Launchcommand: -opengl
- or edit KillingFloor.ini located in:
/home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

Edit
[Engine.Engine]
RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice
to
[Engine.Engine]
;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice

comment D3D9-Render via semicolon ";" uncomment OpenGL-Render via removing semicolon ";"

Problems/Performance with D3D9/D3D-Render later in text. At first bout Proton.
Use Proton 7 or higher.
Fixes with various Proton Releases that impacts Killing Floor:
Avoid Proton 6: For D3D and OpenGL Gamma/Brightness/Contrast now adjustable, but shading of textures are fully messed up, only D3D9 is still fine -> Fixed with Proton 7
Proton lower than 6: Gamma/Brightness/Contrast only adjustable with D3D9-Render and DXVK+D9VK-api. With WINE3D and D3D9 the same not possible.
With Proton less/equal 5.13-6, ALT-Tab out of game worked only with OpenGL-Rendering, After 5.13.6 works with D3D/D3D9 too.
Since Proton 5.13-5, your mouse is not clicking anymore ingame while tab'd into Steamoverlay.

Killing Floor Proton:
Rightclick KillingFloor within Steam, select Properties and switch to Compatibility
Enable "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"
Select Proton ***

Game is now downloading the Protonfiles.
With Proton, KillingFloor uses only folder:
/home/USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/
Folder and files from the native-port are not used anymore: /home/USER/.killingfloor/
(Note: Don't copy killingfloor.ini from the native if you favorited any gameservers. The formating of this entries are different and the game won't start without a error message, or remove this entries first.)

At first gamestart after Protoninstallation your game will maybe crash, without any error message.
Game is set to D3D9 by default. Since Proton 5, without launchcommand DXVK-api is used.
Library for Vulkan are missing. Drivers for 32bit are required too.
Install Vulkan for AMD with mesadriver:

Install Vulkan lib:
sudo apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-utils
Install Vulkan 32bit:
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386
Install both in one line:
sudo apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-utils mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386

Restart your system after installation!
(Without installed vulkans libs: Game starts with DVXK/DV9K-api only with OpenGL and D3D.
Forcing wine-api "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" game starts with OpenGL and D3D+D3D9.)

Optimations after first gamestart within the Game - Go to Settings:
Game: Change Connection to LAN/T1.
Input: Disable Mouse Smoothing. Disable Reduce Mouse Lag (or do it in killingfloor.ini)
Display: Disable Vertical Sync (or do it in killingfloor.ini)

OpenGL does not render blood decals, visual key feature of game

Optimations in killingfloor.ini: Edit
in [WinDrv.WindowsClient]
DrawDistanceLOD=1.0 to DrawDistanceLOD=0.0
(backround objects renders only very close - visual gay, improves performance. Decide on your own)

in [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
ReduceMouseLag=True to ReduceMouseLag=False
UseVSync=True to UseVSync=False

OpenGL-Render and Proton summary/result:
+ Awesome Performance, no stutter in any situation
+/- Framedrops while fireweapons, special flamethrower are spamed then Dynamic Lighting is activated. For AMD with mesa it can be fixed, force_s3tc_enable=true -> Have a look at section: "Dynamic Lighting - Ultra Performance".
For Nvidia idk if similar tweak is possible or needed, no real system to test.
If spaming gets to hard, disable in Options: Dynamic Lighting for the current session.
(Note: With disabled Dynamic Lighting you have no Flashlight anymore)

- Same as the native, activated Projectors has no effect (No feature of OpenGL-Rendering)
No red dot for MBR, no weapon/blood decals.
- With Nvidia same texture bugs like in the native port. Metallic stalkers, some other texture bugs.
- At gamestart your Taskbar still may be in foreground. Just press ALT+ENTER, sometimes has to repeat multiple times, and/or turn multiple times in ingame options Fullscreen on/off.

Optimations in killingfloor.ini:
SET NEVER UsePrecaching to False in [D3DDrv.]+[D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice] like other tweak guides suggest! This will result in heavy stutter! Leave it as it is: UsePrecaching=True

Edit
in [WinDrv.WindowsClient]
DrawDistanceLOD=1.0 to DrawDistanceLOD=0.0
(backround objects renders only very close - visual gay, improves performance. Decide on your own)

Using D3D9-Render:
in [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
ReduceMouseLag=True to False (useless, cost lots of performance)
UseVSync=True to False (useless, cost lots of performance)
UseCompressedLightmaps=True to False (for anti stutter with Projectors)
CheckForOverflow=False to True (for no heavy frame drops with flame spam and DynLight on)

Using D3D-Render:
in [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
ReduceMouseLag=True to ReduceMouseLag=False
UseVSync=True to UseVSync=False
UseCompressedLightmaps=True to UseCompressedLightmaps=False
CheckForOverflow=False to CheckForOverflow=True

[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]
UsePrecache=True to UsePrecache=False
Does not affect performance, only bout 100MB RAM is less cached.

[Engine.LevelInfo]
bNeverPrecache=False to bNeverPrecache=True
No difference, does not affect performance

[Engine.GameEngine]
increase CacheSizeMegs=*
Bullsh!t, it's just reservation at gamestart. Games uses what it's need

[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] + add in [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
AvoidHitches=True
Nothing, no feature of Killing Floor

If you have Projectors activated you will have heavy stutter/framedrops as soon as a flashlight by your own or teammate kicks in the game. Same with using red dot with MBR.
Setting UseCompressedLightmaps=False is important, reduces this spikes, but still present.
(Note: If Projectors disabled - as long Dynamic Lighting in Options is enabled. flashlight still works. With disabled Projectors, coverage of shadows for objects and characters are changed and no weapon/blood decals will be showed)

With D3D/D3D9-Render same fps drops like with OpenGL while fireweapons get spamed.
Setting CheckForOverflow=True eliminates the framedrops enormously.
If in current session flamethrower get spamed to hard disable in options Dynamic Lighting.
(Note: With disabled Dynamic Lighting and Projectors you have no Flashlight anymore)

(Extra section, to point out the fix for most performance loss with Dynamic Lighting)
With OpenGL while you have Dynamic Lighting activated in options, your fps will hardly drop down to 10-30 fps if a firebug kicks in the game. Spaming fireweapons special the flamethrower will kill your fps even on a overpowered pc build for killing floor. Drops with flashlights are the same.

The simple Ultimate Performance Boost is: force_s3tc_enable=true
Only for mesa driver:
Add line to startupbash to start steam.

#!/bin/sh
export vblank_mode=0
force_s3tc_enable=true
steam

Start steam via bash. Now do a 6player flamethrower spam party without any significant fps drop with activated Dynamic Lighting :)

Note: Duo patent rights which expired October 2, 2017 - At mesa 17.3.0 Release s3tc is officially supported. Older builds require installation of dxtn packages. Just look for libtxc-dxtn packages: aptitude search libtxc dxtn. Install dxtn0 or patentfree s2tc0 packages.
Note2: Other games may cause trouble with forcing s3tc, restart steam without s3tc command.

This section was only supposed for the mesadriver tweak and OpenGL, for D3D/D3D9 just a repeat from the proton section:
As mentioned in Proton section above. Set in Rendering Device CheckForOverflow to True.
Without editing, frames will heavily drop with flamethrower spam and activated DynamicLighting. Depending on your hardware, fps will stay very stable, prevents framedrops by 80-90%.
Edit in killingfloor.ini:

Using D3D9-Render:
in [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice]
CheckForOverflow=False to CheckForOverflow=True

Using D3D-Render:
in [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
CheckForOverflow=False to CheckForOverflow=True

Testing different tasksets - advising core/thread affinity make no difference.
Check for affinity in Terminal: taskset -cp PIDofKF
-> pid ****'s current affinity list: 0-7 (Ryzen 3300x - 4 Core CPU with Hyperthreading)
Set Launch Option in Killing Floor Properties:
taskset -c 0-3 %command%
You can set x-variations for affinity.
with "-" set range of cores with "," set specific cores.
A combination as example.: taskset -c 0,1,4-6 %command%

Testing disabled SMT (more or less the same above with advising affinity) no difference.
sudo bash -c "echo off > /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control"
to enable SMT again: sudo bash -c "echo on > /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control"

Testing disabling HPET no difference (systemrestart required):
sudo cp /usr/local/share/confs/grub-hpet-off /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub
to enable HPET again:
sudo cp /usr/local/share/confs/grub-hpet-on /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

Tested every ProtonLaunch Command no difference.
Even with lowest Settings at 480p the fps hardly drops with activated Dynamic Lighting.

dgVoodoo2, D3D9 to D3D11/12 wrapper there is 100% zero stutter with activated projectors anymore, runs awesome. D3D12 is rendered through VKD3D and has much higher performance than D3D11 via DXVK.
Disadvantage: Significant lower performance in multiplayer with more player/zeds in action compared running game directly through proton. With Proton9 huge performance boost compared to older Protonversions.

Proton 7:
- D3D12 better performance than D3D11, both zero stutter
- both significant lower performance compared running directly via Proton 7

Proton 8:
- D3D12 unplayable hard framedrops even in mainmenu
- D3D11 zero stutter, lower performance compared directly via Proton7

Proton 9:
- D3D12 zero stutter, same high fps like running directly via Proton 7.
- D3D11 zero stutter, lower performance
Disadvantage:
- Always starts windowed, ingame have to reselect fullscreen
- Game does not recognize ingame gamma/brightness/contrast settings, have to be adjusted via dgvoodoo2.
Sweetspot at my backend is in dgvo: Brightness 235, Color 89, Contrast 96.
These settings looks close to original presets from ingame settings.

source, author Dege:
https://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
Latest versions of dgVoodoo2 refuses to work on linux, didnt have a closer look on which backend it fails.
Downloadlinks for older versions are broken.
Oldest working download on site is - dgVoodoo v2.82.2, which refuses to run.

Latest versions what i found on my disc which work is: dgVoodoo2_81_3

Download dgVoodoo2_79_3.zip from:
https://github.com/legluondunet/mlls-tools/tree/master/dgVoodoo2
Between 79.3 and 81.3 noticed no difference, so use this source

Extract Archive.
Copy dgVoodoo.conf and
D3D9.dll from /MS/x86/
into KillingFloor System folder: steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/System/

Start game, if it works you'll get no error msg (protection fault - setting resolution) and will have in right corner dgvoodoo watermark
Close game again.

open dgVoodoo.conf with editor from KillingFloor Systemfolder

Section: [General]

CenterAppWindow = false
to
CenterAppWindow = true

Section: [DirectX]

Remove watermark, edit:
dgVoodooWatermark = true
to
dgVoodooWatermark = false

increase VRAM, edit:
VRAM = 256
to
VRAM = 4096

(without increasing VRAM in conf, game will crash shortly after start, out of VRAM)
CreateVertexBuffer failed(D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY).

You can also copy dgVoodooCpl.exe from archive into KillingFloor System folder. Run this file with WINE and configure .conf with dgvoodoo GUI.

default preselected output api is: best available one
Recommendation using api: D3D12 (feature level 11.0) gives best performance
dgVoodoo.conf section: [General]
OutputAPI = d3d12_fl11_0
*no difference between D3D12 feature level 11.0 and 12.0

If wanna use D3D11, feature level 11.0 works best through D3D11 api's
OutputAPI = d3d11_fl11_0

Performance/fps highest settings 1080p. Menu and testing spots on steamland, solo.
Results on laptop: cpu amd 5600h, gpu amd 6600m

*On win10 tested with latest dgvoodoo2 release. D3D12 feature level 12.0, huge performance boost compared to D3D12 feature level 11.0

avoid crashes, Proton related:
Delete the 6 Movie.bik files in .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/Movies/

Comparison Performance: Native Build vs. Proton and Win10.
Steamland on 3 different spots within map. High/Mid/Low-Performance Spots.
Captured/tested in Solo-Mode duo reproducing results.
While Native Build only with a resolution of 900p duo lack of performance.
And disabled DrawDistanceLOD=0.0 [SDLDrv]
Proton is captured with 1080p and higher graphical options. Proton and Win10 same options/tweaks. Disabled DrawDistanceLOD=0.0 [WinDrv]
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3300X, GPU: ATI RX480 8GB
Proton Version: GE-Proton 7-19

Launchcommand for Killing Floor in Steam: gamemoderun %command%
-> All Cores are fulltime running at boost clock (Ryzen 3300X at 4,3 GHz)
(Feral GameMode dependencies required)

+% compared Native to Proton

Performance Location

High-Spot (+ in %)

Mid-Spot (+ in %)

Low-Spot (+ in %)

Native Build OpenGL

237 FPS

67 FPS

43 FPS

Proton OpenGL

401 FPS (= +69%)

146 FPS (= +118%)

117 FPS (= +172%)

Win10 OpenGL

490FPS

182 FPS

124 FPS

Proton Direct3D9

370 FPS (= +56%)

176 FPS (= +162%)

122 FPS (= +183%)

Win10 Direct3D9

435 FPS

182 FPS

128 FPS

(Screenshots outdated with fps count, older kernel+proton version,
For Proton+Win10 Projectors were activated with results above)

Game may crash with D3D9 while loading content of the annoying lobbyvideos.

Originally posted by Example:

Build UT2004_Build_[2004-11-11_10.48]

OS: Windows NT 6.2 (Build: 9200)
CPU: AuthenticAMD Unknown processor @ 3800 MHz with 4095MB RAM
Video: AMD RADV POLARIS10 (ACO) (65535)

General protection fault!

History: UTexture::Update <- FD3D9RenderInterface::HandleCombinedMaterial <- FD3D9RenderInterface::SetSimpleMaterial <- FD3D9RenderInterface::SetMaterial <- FCanvasUtil::Flush <- UCanvas::DrawTile <- UCanvas::DrawTileStretched <- UCanvas::execDrawTileStretched <- (LobbyMenu Package.LobbyMenu @ Function KFGUI.LobbyMenu.DrawPerk : 040F) <- UObject::ProcessEvent <- (LobbyMenu Package.LobbyMenu, Function KFGUI.LobbyMenu.DrawPerk) <- UObject::ProcessDelegate <- GUIPage::Draw <- (LobbyMenu Package.LobbyMenu) <- GUIController::NativePostRender <- UInteractionMaster::MasterProcessPostRender <- FPlayerSceneNode::Render <- UGameEngine::Draw <- UWindowsViewport::Repaint <- UWindowsClient::Tick <- ClientTick <- UGameEngine::Tick <- Level KF-Clandestine <- UpdateWorld <- MainLoop <- FMallocWindows::Free <- FMallocWindows::Realloc <- 726F6F6C 0 FArray <- FArray::Realloc <- 0*2 <- FMallocWindows::Free

Delete the 6 Movie.bik files in .steam/steam/steamapps/common/KillingFloor/Movies/
No video is played anymore in awaitinglobby.

The problem:
Mouse sensitivity is much to high even in the configuration it is set to a low decimal value 0.**

If you don't want to mess around with xinput/xorg.conf use the feature within the UT2004-Engine. Beside the standard sensitivity setting edit the entry for X/Y-Axes too.
navigate to ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\System\
folder native: /home/USER/.killingfloor/System/

Open user.ini

Edit:
MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0
to
MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=1.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=1.0

This will slow down your sensitivity enough, so you can increase the standard value of the sensitivity again.
For your perfect ingame experience/aiming you can also set a different value to the x/y-Axes.
Note: Changing MouseX/Y=Count in user.ini does not affect the menu-sensitivity only the ingame sens.

Fontsize in serverbrowser does not scale with resolution like other fonts do.
Depending on ingame resolution and monitor, fonts can be very small.

navigate to ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\System\
open GUI2K4.int

search for section: [fntUT2k4ServerList]
change font size via editing number after Vr, standard is 8
FontArrayNames=("ROFonts.ROBtsrmVr8")
for example font size 18
FontArrayNames=("ROFonts.ROBtsrmVr18")

save file

example screenshot with 1920x1080
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161031610

Increase time of blood and weapon decals before they disappear.
Disadvantage: Affects decal of healing nades too and explosion decals. On closed maps like bioticslab, explosion decals looks ugly if stay to long. *healing nade decal can be modified in bloody red, that you won't see ugly green decal on floor, screenshot beneath.
Requirements: Decals and Projectors must be set to true/activated in graphic options.
If you're on OpenGL-Render, projectors has no effect, so there won't be any decals.

open killingfloor.ini
navigate to section: [Engine.LevelInfo]
look for entry:
DecalStayScale=2.000000
change it to value you prefer, example 10:
DecalStayScale=10.000000

Two example screenhots how bloody it can look:
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886429044
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877011701

Keybinds ingame editing WinDrv.WindowsClient should not be used. Triggers something ingame to blacklist client - no perkprogression/achievements during session. After mapchange/leaving perks only as lv0 available, game has to be restarted.

Disable/Enable Projectors via keybind

Disable/enable Projectors via keybind in user.ini.
No need to switch into graphic options to turn on/off.

Enable:
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient Projectors True
Disable:
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient Projectors False

Disable/Enable DynamicLighting via keybind

Disable/enable DynamicLighting via keybind in user.ini.
No need to switch into graphic options to turn on/off.

Enable:
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient NoDynamicLights False
Disable:
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient NoDynamicLights True

Adjust Gamma comfy ingame

Some Maps/Areas are lot darker. Adjust/Swtich Gamma via keybind comfy ingame.
Bind one Key with your standard value and another with higher one.
Example:
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient Gamma 1.710000
KEY=set WinDrv.WindowsClient Gamma 2.100000
Can be the same way binded with Brightness and Contrast, one is enough to dumpen up.

(This does of course not work if someone creates server without port forwarding, like topics "can't join friends game")

Feature within steam, pressing join button as known for kf does not work proper.
Get server ip you wanna join: from buddy via chat, friends list via game info, from profil via copy link address from "Join Game" to get IP.
Valve/Tripewire could fix it in 5 min.

actual launch command "Join Game": steam://connect/255.255.255.255:7705
Need launch command: steam://run/1250/255.255.255.255:7705
*255.255.255.255:7705 fictional IP
startparameter need to be replaced from:
steam://connect/
to
steam://run/1250/

Casual way is to start Killing Floor, open console and type: open serverip
Or navigate to server browser and add serverip to favorites, than join it.

Faster ways: (edit 255.255.255.255:7705 with real server ip)

Option 1: Use killing floor desktop icon
Select properties, default entry: steam://rungameid/1250
just edit it with copied IPaddress: steam://run/1250/255.255.255.255:7705

Option 2: Open windows start menu. In search bar, type: run
steam://run/1250/255.255.255.255:7705

Option 3: create .bat file:
@echo off
set /p server_ip="Enter the server IP: "
start "" "steam://run/1250/%server_ip%"

run .bat, cmd will open and paste ip adress.

Option 4: in steamoverlay rightclick Killing Floor.
Select Properties. Section General. Launch Options:
Paste IP Address: 255.255.255.255:7705
Launch game via steamoverlay
(Do not forget to remove entry in launch options after closing kf, or you are addicted to specific server)

More more blood

https://www.mediafire[DOT]com/file/zwskt38pl7dmkth/KF_MoreBloodyGore_v3.7z/file
replace [DOT] with .

Files modded clientside which works same way online without mismatch error.
Whitelisted, Perkprogression/Achievements still working.

Make sure Projectors and Decals are activated in InGame DirectX Rendering Options.
Does not work with OpenGL, Projectors no feature of OpenGL Render.

Paste .utx you wanna use into folder: ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\Textures\

For best bloody experience change time of decalstay to higher value, for example 10
this increases the staytime of blooddecals.

edit killingfloor.ini
located in: ...\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\System\

[Engine.LevelInfo]
DecalStayScale=10.000000

use texture/modification what you want, you do not need to replace all of them.
original files in archive as backup.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Descriptions:

Efects_Tex_Blood_and_Colorgrading_v3: Effects_Tex.utx
#Replaced splatter004.tga fully duo sh!tty look, others little more blood and some darker colorgrading

KF_trip_fx_HealingNade_BloodyRed_v2: kf_fx_trip_t.utx
#Changes floor decal from green to bloody red.
#Green smoke is not affected, can't be modded clientside. Green is set via colorscaling using standard smoke texure.
#KFNadeHealing.uc
#ColorScale(0)=(Color=(G=255,R=128,A=255))
#Green smoke staytime is not affected by increasing DecalStayScale

KFX_MoreMoreBlood_v2.2: KFX.utx
#Edited blooddecals (.dds) with more blood and some in colorgrading.

MBR_Blue_Laser: kf_fx_trip_t.utx, KF_Weapons2_Trip_T.utx
#Change red laser from MBR to brighten blue

MBR_Blue_Laser+HealingNadeBloodyRedv2: kf_fx_trip_t.utx, KF_Weapons2_Trip_T.utx
#Change red laser from MBR to brighten blue and HealingNade in BloodyRedv2, same use of kf_fx_trip_t.utx

.
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https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290701556
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290669596
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290669787
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290669473

Bloody Melee Textures

https://www.mediafire[DOT]com/file/emveri7ydokjd0u/Bloody_Standard_Melee_Weapons.7z/file
replace [DOT] with .

Replaces all standard meleeweapon textures to the bloody ones.
-> Standard melee texture in bloody without hitting a zed first.

Golden_Katana with Combinerfix to work.

Clientside modification, works online, whitelisted.

Make backup of original files, not in archive included to save space.

Copy .utx file you wanna use to your Texture folder
...\Steam\steamapps\common\KillingFloor\Textures\

With a non gaming laptop - not optimazed cooling solution your system may shutdown cause of overheating. Duo the fulltime use of the CPU limit at 99% and cpu will run in boost mode.
Deactivate cpu boost with a oneliner.
Create file with .sh extension.

#!/bin/bash
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost

Run file in terminal. Enter systempassword and cpu boost is deactivated.

(placeholder) Implementation and results will be given soon, i'm lazy oO


https://github.com/iXit/wine-nine-standalone
D3D9+AMD+Mesa

https://linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nine

Gallium Nine is the fastest Wine back-end for DX9 due to it's shorter rendering path compared to DXVK and Wine's build-in wined3d DX9 to OpenGL translation layer.

The wined3d DirectX 9 rendering path goes Direct3D 9 ▸ OpenGL ▸ Mesa's Gallium Hardware State Tracker ▸ GPU Hardware.

Gallium Nine cuts that down to Direct3D 9 ▸ Mesa's Gallium Hardware State Tracker ▸ GPU Hardware.

2023_06_fixing_ut2004_stutters
https://github.com/netborg-afps/dxvk/tree/2023_06_fixing_ut2004_stutters
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/compare/master...netborg-afps:dxvk:2023_06_fixing_ut2004_stutters

Originally posted by netborg-afps:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3534#issuecomment-1624920421

Because my previous hack made me confident the game is actually largely stutter-free when moving some variables to the shader, I made a real fix last week. In case someone wants to play UT2004, or any UE2 game via dxvk, the fix is available here:
https://github.com/netborg-afps/dxvk/tree/2023_06_fixing_ut2004_stutters

The disadvantage of the fix though is that vertex shader compile times roughly doubled, so the only true solution which works for all games would be a single uber-shader which wouldn't need to be compiled at runtime.