Team Fortress 2 Receives Linux Renderer Improvements

Just in time for those planning to do some holiday gaming next week, Valve has released a major update to the popular free-to-play Team Fortress 2 game.

Of significance for Linux gamers with this update are that texture streaming is now enabled, there is reduced memory consumption by about 500MB, and faster map loading. These changes also affect the Mac OS X build of the game while Windows players of TF2 have already had these improvements with Direct3D 9.

This update also has a lot of new in-game content, Christmas-related changes, several fixes, and various other performance/renderer related updates.

More details on this big Team Fortress 2 update can be found via SteamPowered.com.