Can't run steam after installation by Arthur Matei on Monday May 20th 2013, 16:59 Hey I installed Steam in a clean prefix, after the installation it prompted me to login, but with no text rendered, so closed the window, and wanted to start it again wie -no-dwrite, but it throws some errors and stops. I'm on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit Output: arthur@Nostromo:~$ WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/dota2 wine .local/share/wineprefixes/dota2/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt". [2013-05-20 23:51:38] Startup - updater built May 3 2013 15:10:13 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {47a9201e-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361bc6f}, 0x3f0055a0, 0x3f036b40, 0x3f036b38 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {58a9201e-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361bc70}, 0x3f0055a0, 0x3f036b78, 0x3f036b70 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {3fa9201e-73b0-43fe-9821-7e145359bc6f}, 0x3f0055a0, 0x3f036b08, 0x3f036b00 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {1432afee-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361b433}, 0x3f0055a0, 0x3f036bb0, 0x3f036ba8 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {4372afee-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361b519}, 0x3f0055a0, 0x3f036be8, 0x3f036be0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 [2013-05-20 23:51:38] Verifying installation... [2013-05-20 23:51:38] Verification complete fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module [2013-05-20 23:51:39] Shutdown arthur@Nostromo:~$ fixme:advapi:EventUnregister deadbeef: stub fixme:advapi:EventUnregister deadbeef: stub fixme:advapi:EventUnregister deadbeef: stub fixme:advapi:EventUnregister deadbeef: stub fixme:advapi:EventUnregister deadbeef: stub Does anybody know whats going on here? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't run steam after installation by Bob Wya on Tuesday May 21st 2013, 13:26

new Steam update broke bootstrapping by Yuri Volkov on Tuesday May 7th 2013, 4:40 With the new update Steam suddenly have stopped bootstrapping correctly under Wine-1.5.24 and later. Now, when starting, Steam client tries to verify the files (just like after a fresh updating), finds all of them to be correct, then shuts itself down completely without messages and/or other signals. Neither bootstrapping log nor console output indicate any errors, it just looks like an ordinary shutdown process. I've found this behavior under Wine versions from 1.5.24 to 1.5.29. With a downgrade to 1.5.23 everything works perfectly though. Re-installation of a fresh Steam distribution within a fresh wineprefix have no effect, the problem is still present. I'm using FreeBSD-9.1-x64 and i386-wine-devel port. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: new Steam update broke bootstrapping by Bob Wya on Tuesday May 7th 2013, 18:03

New Steam Versions by Christopher Cope on Sunday March 3rd 2013, 11:35 Since the recent updates I have to launch steam with -tcp or it won't connect to Steam. I tried a new wine prefix with the same behavior. I have the Linux version of Steam and do not have to do that with it. Also, on the dwrite issue. You can download --link removed-- and apply it to your wine registry to prevent having to launch Steam via -no-dwrite each time. It will also hold between Steam issued restarts, unlike using the -no-dwrite option. After you have it downloaded open a terminal in the same directory and run wine regedit disable-dwrite.reg EDIT: I was unaware that mediafire links were not allowed. The file contained the following REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam] "DWriteEnable"=dword:00000000 [post new] [reply to this]

Bug: Steam window will auto-maximise by pfftzo on Friday February 22nd 2013, 0:13 I haven't maximised my steam window, because I have the friends list next to it. But when I launch a game and exit it, the Steam window will maximise itself magically, so it covers the whole screen and the friends list with it. [post new] [reply to this]

Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Zootal on Thursday February 14th 2013, 20:23 Looks like the latest steam client update won't run with wine. I get the updating steam dialog, extracting package, a real quick "fail..." message, and it terminates. Dead. Anyone else seeing this? It seems to not work with wine 1.4.1, and 1.5.23 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Mr Nobody on Friday February 15th 2013, 4:51

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Mr Nobody on Friday February 15th 2013, 6:59

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Zootal on Friday February 15th 2013, 10:33
• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Jazz on Thursday February 28th 2013, 12:55

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by toby galtress on Friday February 15th 2013, 12:43

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Mr Nobody on Saturday February 16th 2013, 20:58
• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Zootal on Saturday February 16th 2013, 21:56

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by toby galtress on Saturday February 23rd 2013, 18:48

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Matt Walker on Saturday February 16th 2013, 3:15
• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Robert on Sunday February 17th 2013, 11:11
• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Bob VL on Sunday February 17th 2013, 13:22

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Robert on Sunday February 17th 2013, 21:25

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Zootal on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 9:59

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Robert on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 10:44

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Bob Wya on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 11:03
• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Zootal on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 16:34

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Matt Walker on Monday February 18th 2013, 5:46

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Bob Wya on Monday February 18th 2013, 9:29

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Matt Walker on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 5:21

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Bob Wya on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 5:36

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Matt Walker on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 5:40

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Assassinofyouth420 on Thursday March 7th 2013, 11:54

• RE: Latest steam update (2013-2-14) broken by Bob Wya on Thursday March 21st 2013, 7:19

Steam stopped working after killing wineserver by Josh Raymond on Friday February 8th 2013, 23:14 Ok, so I was using steam (the windows version, through wine*1.5.19*) and was downloading Fable 3. I did a wineserver -k command without realizing steam was still up, and ever since steam refuses to work. Command used to start steam: env WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine "/home/josh/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe" -no-dwrite Terminal backtrace: pastebin.com/mmbuSSZa [post new] [reply to this]

Steam with wine 1.5.22 by juppiter89 on Wednesday January 23rd 2013, 10:28 I installed steam in a fresh Ubuntu installation with wine 1.5.22. It seems there are troubles with syncing: when I start a game it hangs on "Preparing to launch...", and when a quit Steam it hangs on "Finishing Steam cloud sync..." Any help? Thank you. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by l0ser18q on Friday February 8th 2013, 9:12

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by vitiv on Sunday February 10th 2013, 10:59

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by P Orlov on Friday February 8th 2013, 14:46

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by P Orlov on Saturday February 9th 2013, 11:58

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by DarkPhoenix on Saturday February 9th 2013, 6:10
• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by vitiv on Sunday February 10th 2013, 5:25

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by P Orlov on Sunday February 10th 2013, 7:58

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by vitiv on Sunday February 10th 2013, 8:05

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by illich on Sunday February 10th 2013, 9:06
• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by Bob Wya on Sunday February 10th 2013, 14:03
• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by vitiv on Monday February 11th 2013, 8:15

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by Matheus on Tuesday February 12th 2013, 16:14

• RE: Steam with wine 1.5.22 by Matheus on Tuesday February 12th 2013, 17:24

Steam crash and log by Bob VL on Wednesday January 9th 2013, 15:24 Recently, Steam has begun failing with an error window saying "the program steam.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close." I upgraded to the latest wrapper and engine, and still get the error. Below is the error log: pastebin.com/m4XtAE4Y It seems to have started happening when Dota 2 needed to update. It does not update, but just sits there and says it needs to update. Then after a few minutes, steam crashes. Any insight? Thanks! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam crash and log by Mirko on Friday February 1st 2013, 7:35

• RE: Steam crash and log by Bob VL on Friday February 1st 2013, 7:52

• RE: Steam crash and log by Mirko on Friday February 1st 2013, 7:56

Steam Client : purchasing new games broken? by Bob Wya on Saturday January 5th 2013, 9:16 Anyone else tried purchasing games with the client over the holiday season :-) ?? I am seeing a problem similar to a network timeout - when running the Steam Client natively under Windows XP/7. When clicking on the "Purchase for myself" button the Steam Client gets stuck trying to load the secure purchase page? It doesn't crash - but one is unable to complete the purchase... Anyone else seeing this? I've tried under both 1.4.1 and 1.5.20 - with the same results. I've also tried running Wine under a few different distros to double check the problem is specific to one... A recent Steam update appears to have broken this feature!! I've previously been able to purchase games directly within the Steam Client when running under Wine... Anyone else seen this problem??> Thanks Bob [post new] [reply to this]

Better interoperability by Daniel Santos on Tuesday December 25th 2012, 15:14 So I was trying to use a desktop shortcut Steam made with this command: env WINEPREFIX="/home/daniel/.wine-steam" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe steam:/ /rungameid/400 (I added a space between slashes to prevent appdb from deforming it) Problem is that I'm post 1.5.9 (or whatever version they started using dwrite.dll) and it starts it w/o the -no-dwrite command. I fixed it with this registry entry: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\steam\Shell\Open\Command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steam.exe\" -no-dwrite \"%1\"" The second problem is that, after running it once, steam changes it back to it's default. This is actually smart behavior to deter malware, but is getting in the way in this case. Still, I thought I would post it anyway (maybe I'll get an even better fix later). [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Better interoperability by Benj on Tuesday December 25th 2012, 16:17

• RE: Better interoperability by Daniel Santos on Tuesday December 25th 2012, 16:23

Stuck in Tools listing view by Zeb on Thursday December 20th 2012, 3:21 Hi, I have listed the Tools (using the View->Tools menu) but am unable to go back to the installed game list view. I can click on Games view in the View menu, I am stuck in the Tools list. The native Steam (which has just been released) does not behave the same, so it seems to be a bug with the Windows Steam run under wine. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a fix? Thanks in advance. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Stuck in Tools listing view by Zeb on Friday January 4th 2013, 2:26

• RE: Stuck in Tools listing view by Bob Wya on Tuesday February 19th 2013, 17:50

• RE: Stuck in Tools listing view by Bob Wya on Tuesday April 9th 2013, 18:56

Steam and bash (and wine). by Yuri Shishenko on Sunday December 9th 2012, 1:55 Noticed that steam can lauunch bash scrips that renamed into *.exe files. I can launch Anno 2070 from other wineprefix in steam from its own wineprefix. Need to rename bash script to exe and add it to steam as other game. When launching steam will say that it fails to start but then game launches. Wine cannot launch that exe file itself. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam and bash (and wine). by Bob Wya on Monday December 10th 2012, 9:05

• RE: Steam and bash (and wine). by Yuri Shishenko on Tuesday December 11th 2012, 2:35

1.5.18 by sloan on Saturday December 1st 2012, 22:34 Just wanted to let someone know that the overlay is working with 1.5.18. It seems to lock up the entire system randomly when used in Team Fortress 2 (for trading) but I haven't tested it out fully. [post new] [reply to this]

Steam GUI pauses/crashes after game any load by sinatosk on Sunday October 14th 2012, 1:11 After I start a game ( so far I've tried DOTA 2 and Team Fortress 2 )... the steam client just doesn't respond to anything other than me terminating the process... I can't drag the window, click buttons... nothing this happens right after I loaded the game ( whether I'm still in the game or exit the game )... Pressing CTRL+C on the terminal didn't terminate it either I also find "Steam.exe" still running when I do exit Steam ( before I load any games ) In the end I send a sigterm to terminate it in any of these scenario I use Archlinux 64bit Kernel: Linux hostname 3.5.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 7 19:30:49 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Wine: wine-1.5.15 ( configured to be 32bit with windows xp and tried windows 7 ) GPU: GeForce GTX 260 304.51-3 ( Rrchlinux repository ) pastebin.com/17YyugpF [post new] [reply to this]

Step by Step tutorial (Mint 13) by Booman on Friday October 12th 2012, 10:58 I created a Step-by-Step tutorial on installing & running Steam in Mint 13 with PlayOnLinux. I included the steps for installing Alien Swarm: www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/software-news-reviews-60/linux/12404-steam-and-source-games-in-mint-13.html [post new] [reply to this]

Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed by BigVig209 on Thursday October 11th 2012, 13:39 I'm running Debian Unstable amd64 and attempting to install steam. My specs are: 3.2.0-4-amd64 Debian 3.2.30-1, Nvidia Driver Version 304.48, GeForce 7600 GT - 256 MB, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+. I'm using wine 1.5.5 from the unstable repository. I have installed libnss-winbind,libpam-winbind, libwbclient0 and winbind I have installed the i386 nvidia drivers, and I tried to install steam using 'winetricks --no-isolate steam'. The normal installation windows open up, I click to accept the license, and the steam client begins to update itself. After the installation finishes and attempts to run steam, it fails with "Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed.' When I double-click on steam to start it, a window pops up with the message 'Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed'. I am currently reading through the FAQ, but any help would be appreciated. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Fatal Error: VGUI_Setup failed by BigVig209 on Friday October 12th 2012, 10:03

Steam windows will not unmaximise: by Benjamin on Friday October 5th 2012, 14:34 Steam works fine for teh most part, until you maximise a window. Once maximised the windows (including the friends list window) won't allow you to unmaximise them, clicking steam's unmaximise button causes the button to animate, but that is all.. Other buttons, such as minimise, and close, are working as intended. Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, wine 1.5.14, XFCE. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam windows will not unmaximise: by Benjamin on Friday October 12th 2012, 7:52
• RE: Steam windows will not unmaximise: by Frozen Fox on Saturday October 13th 2012, 4:01

• RE: Steam windows will not unmaximise: by Benjamin on Saturday October 13th 2012, 4:17

internal error by Patrick Jagersten on Thursday October 4th 2012, 16:36 hey! i'm having a problem with running games in steam.. every time I lunch the game i'm getting a " internal error" any idès ? [post new] [reply to this]

Unable to login to Steam... by Kyle Devir on Saturday September 29th 2012, 0:39 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {47a9201e-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361bc6f}, 0x3f005160, 0x3f036b20, 0x3f036b18 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {58a9201e-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361bc70}, 0x3f005160, 0x3f036b58, 0x3f036b50 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {3fa9201e-73b0-43fe-9821-7e145359bc6f}, 0x3f005160, 0x3f036ae8, 0x3f036ae0 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {1432afee-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361b433}, 0x3f005160, 0x3f036b90, 0x3f036b88 fixme:advapi:EventRegister {4372afee-73b0-42ce-9821-7e134361b519}, 0x3f005160, 0x3f036bc8, 0x3f036bc0 fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x455d70c, overlapped 0x4374bc8): stub fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x455d80c 0x00000ff0 0x455d854) Stub! [0929/153607:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(111)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8 fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub fixme:iphlpapi:CancelIPChangeNotify (overlapped 0x4374bc8): stub I think it has something to do with WSALookupServiceBegin. Any solution to this? [post new] [reply to this]

I can't exit out of steam windows mostly by Collin on Thursday September 27th 2012, 20:59 I could've sworn I saw a bug about it, could somebody point me into the right direction? I'm using Debian Sid x64, Gnome 3, Wine 1.5.13. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: I can't exit out of steam windows mostly by Frozen Fox on Wednesday October 3rd 2012, 18:40

all games/installed dropdown issue by Tim Middleton on Tuesday September 25th 2012, 10:00 In the last week or so I suddenly noticed that the dropdown on the game library where you select "all games" or "installed" to filter your list of games no longer drops down. Not sure how long this has been a problem, as I had it set to list "installed" games and hadn't got any new games for quite a while. Now, having a new game, I find i can't change the list filter anymore, so can't see anything but my current "installed" games in the steam client... anyone else experiencing this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: all games/installed dropdown issue by Frozen Fox on Wednesday October 3rd 2012, 18:33
• RE: all games/installed dropdown issue by Frozen Fox on Sunday October 7th 2012, 10:18
• RE: all games/installed dropdown issue by Frozen Fox on Saturday October 13th 2012, 3:59

• RE: all games/installed dropdown issue by Tim Middleton on Saturday October 13th 2012, 13:59

Steam overlay works when running steam from windows partition by Adam on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 12:03 I am running slackware64-current with multilib and had steam working ok by running it from my real windows 7 installation where steam was already installed. Even the in game overlay works. I wanted to get rid of windows from this PC, so I installed steam using winetricks and nothing would start. I found out now that this is because I need to disable the overlay, but find it strange I need to do this when the overlay works fine if I run my already installed Steam from my windows partition. I am using the latest stable version of steam on both installations, and I have checked that I can definitely use the steam overlay by pressing shift-tab while in a game. Anyone have any ideas why this would be happening? From what I have read I shouldn't be able to use the overlay at all. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam overlay works when running steam from windows partition by Bob Wya on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 12:33

• RE: Steam overlay works when running steam from windows partition by Adam on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 13:02

Steam constantly crashing by Dre on Saturday September 22nd 2012, 0:15 there was a problem with a later update with steam usually crashing, unable to get in games or etc. i found it was a problem with steam accessing my games from the ntfs partition, copying the games onto a local drive seemed to have fixed it. no more crashes :) [post new] [reply to this]

Big Picture mode failed. by Yuri Shishenko on Tuesday September 11th 2012, 2:38 'CreatePanoramaUIEngine failed for Big Picture' error message appears. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Big Picture mode failed. by Bob Wya on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 12:51

by tatsu on Wednesday September 5th 2012, 16:19 Oh and bizarrely the settings window won't close no matter what. running wine 1.5 ubuntu 12.4 wine set to winXP [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Andrew Comminos on Saturday September 8th 2012, 20:13
• RE: by Yuri Shishenko on Tuesday September 11th 2012, 2:36
• RE: by GyB on Tuesday September 11th 2012, 9:34

• RE: by Bob Wya on Wednesday September 12th 2012, 6:33

• RE: Unable to close Steam settings window by Bob Wya on Tuesday September 18th 2012, 5:17

by tatsu on Wednesday September 5th 2012, 16:13 I have a simple request steam work out of the box for me with these instructions, I'd just like to drop my steam games from windows into the steamapps\common folder like I did so many other times, steam just has to check files and update registry and shortcuts rather than download the whole again. However my Wine C drive shows empty program files and program files (x86). Steam isn't there, so where is it? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Dre on Friday September 21st 2012, 22:59

New problem by Yuri Shishenko on Saturday September 1st 2012, 2:21 In 1.5.12 Steam can not launch games. After pressing 'Play' button it crashes. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: New problem by dale on Saturday September 1st 2012, 21:37

• RE: New problem by Yuri Shishenko on Sunday September 2nd 2012, 0:52

• RE: New problem by dale on Sunday September 2nd 2012, 21:24

• RE: New problem by Christian Widmer on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 19:32

• RE: New problem by Christian Widmer on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 19:39

• RE: New problem by dale on Tuesday September 4th 2012, 21:36

• RE: New problem by Christian Widmer on Wednesday September 5th 2012, 0:05

STEAM OVERLAY RENDERER WORKING AS INTENDED. by Dre on Friday August 24th 2012, 22:58 ------ STEAM OVERLAY IS NOW WORKING ------ enabling it in options and opening it in cs:s works as intended ( see screenshot ) wine version 1.5.7 Win32 latest steam. no other options required. [post new] [reply to this]

keyboard issues in Precise 64... by Mariano on Tuesday August 21st 2012, 13:51 I don't know if anyone has the same problems, but either in 1.4 or 1.5.11 (which, BTW, selecting dwrite in the overrides list on wine-cfg, and flagging it as DISABLED solves the problem in this and .10 versions), there is something that conflicts between wine and UBUNTU (12.04 64bits). Recently I upgraded from Lucid where everything related to wine worked mostly fine, but now, most games ignore the L-Ctrl and tilde (~) keys. The Control key is needed in most action games for things like crouching, and the tilde is used to bring up the debug editor (games like FO:NV are mostly unplayable if you don't know how to "get off a rock" from time to time). The thing is, most of my games work under STEAM, and that's why I came here to ask for ideas/solutions. I'm running wine (currently 1.5.11, for sound issues under 1.4) on a Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits fully updated machine (8 GB RAM, GTX 550 Ti with 1 GB RAM). Thanks and sorry for any mistakes (english isn't my primary language). [post new] [reply to this]

Microphone Issue by Dean Thomson on Monday July 30th 2012, 0:12 I've been trying to setup my usb microphone which is a logitech usb desk microphone. The chip itself is a Asahi Kasei Microsystems AK5370 I/F A/D Converter. I can use this microphone okay in Linux apps but Steam struggles. I select the microphone in the Wine settings under the Audio tab. But Steam still tells me there is no microphone detected. Any thoughts? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Microphone Issue by Mariano on Tuesday July 31st 2012, 13:49

Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Thursday July 26th 2012, 8:06 It crashes during login, no matter what I do (I tried to configure to use Windows 7). After I wait for a few minutes, I get a crash window from wine, and I also get a segfault in the terminal. When I try the winetricks tip, with the 32-bit arch, I get a different error. Any ideas? [ fa2k@blackhole ~]$ export WINEARCH=win32 [ fa2k@blackhole ~]$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam­ [ fa2k@blackhole ~]$ Software/winetricks --no-isolate steam ------------------------------------------------------ wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned unexpanded string '%ProgramFiles%' ... can be caused a corrupt wineprefix, an old wine, or by not owning /home/fa2k/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam­ ------------------------------------------------------ [ fa2k@blackhole ~]$ wine --version wine-1.5.8 The error is here, but I get different ones: www.fa2k.net/misc/steamfail.txt Using ATI open source driver. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Thursday July 26th 2012, 8:16

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Bob Wya on Thursday July 26th 2012, 15:09

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Thursday July 26th 2012, 15:46

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Bob Wya on Thursday July 26th 2012, 16:37

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Thursday July 26th 2012, 16:50

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Thursday July 26th 2012, 18:33

• RE: Can't get it to work on Fedora 17 by Marius on Friday July 27th 2012, 13:22

Broken in git by Yuri Shishenko on Thursday July 26th 2012, 4:15 It seems that Steam is broken on latest wine from git. Tested it on wine-1.5.9-145-g7b89de9 and wine-1.5.9-222-g47b9dd1. On wine-1.5.9 Steam works normal. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Broken in git by Yuri Shishenko on Thursday July 26th 2012, 4:20

• RE: Broken in git by Bob Wya on Thursday July 26th 2012, 15:11

Official release STEAM linux by Thomas on Thursday July 5th 2012, 12:21 Great news, if it isn't mentioned before: Valve officially claims that a Linux version of Steam will be there! See the following statement on OMGUBUNTU: www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/valves-gabe-newell-reiterates-steam-linux-support [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Official release STEAM linux by Bob Wya on Friday July 6th 2012, 17:02

• RE: Official release STEAM linux by Collin on Sunday August 12th 2012, 23:45

Enormous lag and resources usage by Michal Markushnikak on Sunday April 29th 2012, 13:45 Hi, I'm using wine 1.3.28 on Ubuntu, and I've freshly installed Steam. I've installed d3dx9 as recommended, but Steam is running incredibly slow when running it in wine, in comparison to the same machine running it in windows. Steam is using 10-40% of system resources even when completely idle and the interface is hugely choppy, even when just flipping through windows. The images load slowly. Is there any way to improve the performance? I've merely used the automatic Winetricks install, coupled with installation of Gecko and as was mentioned the d3dx9. Still, I feel like there's something enormously wrong, because my computer gets all worked up just running the basic interface. As I said, this didn't use to be the case with Windows. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Enormous lag and resources usage by Guzhva Artem on Saturday June 16th 2012, 7:38

ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5 by Alex Pavel on Sunday April 29th 2012, 13:11 I've had wine running with steam perfectly for some time now, but recently, after both updating steam and my OS from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 (which in turn upgraded my wine to version 1.4), I get the error "ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5". I have the wine folder on my windows partition (separate from my programs installed on windows, though) and I'm not sure how to fix this or what to do. I've tried re installing but it didn't work. My other games(Crysis 2 v1.0, Assassin's Creed 2 latest version), however, still work. Anyone got an idea on what I should do? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5 by Bob Wya on Sunday April 29th 2012, 16:35

• RE: ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5 by Alex Pavel on Sunday April 29th 2012, 19:13

• RE: ERROR: Failed to set file attributes, Win32 Error 5 by Bob Wya on Monday April 30th 2012, 4:04

Simple script to fix steam launch by Maarten Lankhorst on Tuesday April 24th 2012, 2:39 I seem to have the problem that steam refuses to launch any game on a fast computer almost most all the time. It's not related to steam overlay and no information is shown except that the game starts but no window pops up and it can only be killed with kill -9. Yesterday I finally figured out it might be due to my computer being too fast which triggers a race condition, and I created a simple burner script that seems to workaround launching: #!/bin/bash stopfile=$(mktemp --tmpdir burner.XXXXX) for i in `seq 1 $(grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l)`; do while [ -f "$stopfile" ]; do true; done & done read -sn 1 -p "Press any kill to kill $stopfile" foo echo rm -f "${stopfile}" [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Simple script to fix steam launch by Maarten Lankhorst on Tuesday April 24th 2012, 2:42

No sound withe Pulseaudio installed by Collin on Sunday March 25th 2012, 16:56 I keep hearing the solution to this just being "uninstall pulse and the sounds will work". Well, for one thing it doesn't, for another, it seriously messes up the way I handle my VoIP clients and browsers, (Skype, Firefox, and Mumble). So far, what I'm getting from Steam and when I launch a game, there's something that appears in the Sound Preferences's Applications tab, it says "Alsa Plugin (python 2.6)" it's on there for about a split second before it disappears or crashes. Does anybody know of a simple fix to get Alsa working properly? Wine Version: 1.4 Distro: Linux Mint Debian Ed. [post new] [reply to this]

How to SOLVE bug 21770 "Keyboard not recognized" by Mariano on Sunday March 18th 2012, 9:33 When playing on a VD, after wine 1.3.38, sometimes, some games won't recognize the keyboard, and no matter what you do, you only have the mouse to use. The problem resides in the fact that wine is using a VD and Steam opens a VD for itself when you start the game. The only thing you need to do in order to have the main window (the game) in control, is Alt-Tab into "wine" again. :) Sadly, there are games outside Steam that present the same issue, but this solution won't work. :/ [post new] [reply to this]

OpenGL problem by Artem Vorotnikov on Saturday March 17th 2012, 20:54 On startup terminal gets spammed with this: err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! Performance is not obviously not so great. Ubuntu 11.10 x86-64, Wine 1.4 from PPA, latest nvidia-current-updates, clean wineprefix. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: OpenGL problem by Philipp Hufnagl on Monday March 19th 2012, 12:17
• RE: OpenGL problem by Bob Wya on Monday March 19th 2012, 16:58

• RE: OpenGL problem by Philipp Hufnagl on Thursday March 22nd 2012, 17:32

• RE: OpenGL problem by Bob Wya on Thursday March 22nd 2012, 19:24

• RE: OpenGL problem by nis on Wednesday June 13th 2012, 14:34

When I load Steam I get this by David Diaz on Sunday March 11th 2012, 3:34 I compiled Wine 1.4 from source (no patches, nothing) using 32 libs. I ran steam (not installed) and it gave me this when it loaded: i.imgur.com/PhWZv.jpg Does anyone know what causes this? And how can I fix it? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: When I load Steam I get this by Bob Wya on Thursday March 15th 2012, 9:17

Problems running Steam by Austin S. Hemmelgarn on Tuesday March 6th 2012, 15:10 Whenever I try to run Steam, I get the Message 'Fatal Error: Could not load module 'bin/FileSystem_Steam.dll'. Here is the output from 'wine Steam.exe': fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"OPENGL32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:module:import_dll Loading library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\bin\\vgui2_s.dll") failed (error c000007a). err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"OPENGL32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:module:import_dll Loading library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\bin\\vgui2_s.dll") failed (error c000007a). err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"OPENGL32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:module:import_dll Loading library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\bin\\vgui2_s.dll") failed (error c000007a). err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"OPENGL32.dll": libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:module:import_dll Loading library OPENGL32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\bin\\vgui2_s.dll") failed (error c000007a). Shutting down. . . I am currently using the version of wine from the Ubuntu wine-beta personal package archive on launchpad.net [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Problems running Steam by Bob Wya on Tuesday March 6th 2012, 17:50

• RE: Problems running Steam by Austin S. Hemmelgarn on Tuesday March 6th 2012, 20:31

• RE: Problems running Steam by Bob Wya on Wednesday March 7th 2012, 5:17

• RE: Problems running Steam by Jimmy Berry on Wednesday March 7th 2012, 21:19

• RE: Problems running Steam by Jimmy Berry on Wednesday March 7th 2012, 22:23
• RE: Problems running Steam by Bob Wya on Thursday March 8th 2012, 9:14

• RE: Problems running Steam by Jimmy Berry on Thursday March 8th 2012, 15:15

• RE: Problems running Steam by Bob Wya on Friday March 9th 2012, 17:56

• RE: Problems running Steam by Jimmy Berry on Thursday March 8th 2012, 15:17

• RE: Problems running Steam by Bob Wya on Thursday March 8th 2012, 15:56

• RE: Problems running Steam by Jimmy Berry on Thursday March 8th 2012, 16:11

• RE: Problems running Steam by Philipp Hufnagl on Sunday March 18th 2012, 4:25

Yesturday I have got a problem by Zhenya on Saturday February 25th 2012, 14:29 Yesturday I have got a problem. Steam installed an update, and I can't play Portal 2. I installed Portal 2 two weeks ago in Wine 1.2-rc2, and when it crash in menu, I have been update Wine to 1.4-rc3 version. DirectX, corefonts and Visual Basic C++ libraries are not installed. I edit regedit to disable GLSL on my NVIDIA, and disable gameoverlayrenderer in winecfg to run game. And game works fine before Steam update yesturday. [post new] [reply to this]

Games Launching Is Quirky by Christopher Cope on Thursday February 16th 2012, 15:24 This problem has been with me for as long as I've used Steam. From wine version 1.2.3 to 1.3.37. Steam with say it is preparing to launch the game, but no extra processes are started. I've tried using applaunch and disabling Steam In-Game Community, with no effect. If I go launch the games directly some of them work. However, most disable online play or just refuse to work when launched directly. The thing that confuses me the most is that this doesn't happen all of the time. If I close steam and open it up later it may or may not launch the games. No terminal errors are thrown or anything that would let me know when or why this is happening. [post new] [reply to this]

Steam not updating by Joel Webb on Wednesday February 15th 2012, 9:15 I just installed steam following the instructions. When I click on the icon the update steam window pops up but then does nothing...what can I do? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam not updating by Bob Wya on Thursday February 16th 2012, 16:57
• RE: Steam not updating by Joel Webb on Friday February 17th 2012, 8:02

• RE: Steam not updating by Bob Wya on Friday February 17th 2012, 15:14

How I do steam for steam games testing by Maquis196 on Thursday February 9th 2012, 10:32 Just in case this suits anyone the way I do it is to have a /home/maquis196/wine_games directory and create a wine_global_steam directory in there. Then wineprefix a dir in wine_games (like WINEPREFIX=/home/maquis196/wine_games/wine-steam-gold) and do a mount bind -o /home/maquis196/wine_games/wine_global_steam to the usual Program\ files/Steam in the wineprefix. This way, you can share one steam install but different prefixes can use different dll's, settings, etc. A symlink won't work because steam is very fussy when it comes to installing/updating games but wont be an issue with using mount bind. Very very good for testing a game in a fresh prefix without having to backup/restore games which can take a while. [post new] [reply to this]

voice chat by Kevin F on Saturday February 4th 2012, 10:43 I'm having trouble getting steam to find my voice input device. Are there any standard suggestions of what to try when Steam won't detect a usb audio input device? I see it's a known problem: "Steam in-game voice-chat typically (always??) won't detect a connected microphone correctly" [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: voice chat by Bob Wya on Saturday February 4th 2012, 11:30

• RE: voice chat by Kevin F on Saturday February 4th 2012, 12:03

• RE: voice chat by Bob Wya on Saturday February 4th 2012, 13:50

• RE: voice chat by Kevin F on Sunday February 5th 2012, 12:38

• RE: voice chat by Bob Wya on Sunday February 5th 2012, 15:23

• RE: voice chat by Kevin F on Sunday February 5th 2012, 15:28

Steam msi by Ezequiel on Tuesday January 31st 2012, 3:02 Wine tries to render the steam installer's window but it dissappears instantanly, but the installer doesn't stop. That is, installer is running in background but window crashed. How could I install it? I use: ubunu 11.10 with wine 1.37 and two monitors (if it is important). [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam msi by Ezequiel on Tuesday January 31st 2012, 11:52

• RE: Steam msi by Bob Wya on Tuesday January 31st 2012, 12:36

Steam "Incomplete Installation" and "Completing Installation" errors by Jeff Cook on Wednesday December 21st 2011, 0:03 If you get messages like "Completing Installation ... 1%" followed by errors like "Steam servers were too busy to fulfill your request. Error Code (2)" or "Error Code (55)", Steam is yelling at you for these reasons: 1. You are not running Steam from its normal installation path on C:\Program Files\Steam. Go into winecfg, make sure your C:\ drive is configured, and make this path exist. 2. You may think it'd be clever to symlink or something. Do NOT do this. Newer Valve games like LFD2 and Portal 2 choke to death if the folder used to access the game doesn't have certain likeable attributes (unsure what these are). A symbolic link will not fix anything, you will continue to get the same errors. You must move the Steam and steamapps folders into that path for real in order to launch. I do not believe this is a WINE bug as many Windows configurations experience similar issues if Steam is not placed in the expected path or drive. Spent a couple of hours struggling with this tonight. Portal 2 seems to run great after this workaround. Hope it helps someone out there. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam by Jeff Cook on Wednesday December 21st 2011, 0:05

• RE: Steam by Brandon Dulaney on Thursday December 22nd 2011, 19:00

• RE: Steam by Brandon Dulaney on Friday December 23rd 2011, 15:02

• RE: Steam by Brandon Dulaney on Friday December 23rd 2011, 17:21

• RE: Steam by P Orlov on Wednesday January 4th 2012, 11:59

Steam games not starting. by Benjamin on Friday November 25th 2011, 6:29 When I launch any game (Tested with 4 until now, including Defcon, World of Goo and Skyrim, that should be supported) and I get the "launching game..." popup but then it just disappears and gets me back to the main steam window. The downloads are paused for a moment and then resumes, which tells me that the game isn't running anywhere, and that it just crashed. It's been compiled with GCC 4.6. Corefonts / Allfonts have been installed, steam in-game overlay and steam community have been disable. Steam has been installed as instructed on the Steam WineHQ page. I'm using the latest NVidia drivers with XFCE4 and Arch x86_64. Any pointers? Here's the log: fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x702be, 2, 0x33d554, 4) stub fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x702be, 3, 0x33d560, 4) stub fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x702be, 4, 0x33d550, 4) stub err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:secur32:SECUR32_initSchannelSP TLS library not found, SSL connections will fail err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution. err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winealsa.drv": libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat. err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter Direct3D9 is not available without OpenGL. err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil) err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x700c6 wine: Call from 0x7b83a332 to unimplemented function msvcp80.dll.??0?$ basic_fstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PBDHH@Z, aborting err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000100 flags 1 addr 0x7b83a332 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam games not starting. by Benjamin on Friday November 25th 2011, 7:54
• RE: Steam games not starting. by Artur hoOmE on Tuesday December 13th 2011, 21:34

Using it on x86_64 Oneiric with Intel Drivers by Treviño on Tuesday November 1st 2011, 8:52 Using the Intel open drivers (and I also guess the ATI ones) it wasn't possible to run Steam out of the box, getting an error like: Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly To avoid this you need to download the libgl1-mesa-dri i386 package from packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/libgl1-mesa-dri extract it somewhere and then run steam with something like: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/mesa:/usr/lib32/dri:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=$PATH_TO_THE_FOLDER_WHERE_YOU_EXTRACTED_THE_ABOVE_PACKAGE/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri wine Steam.exe [post new] [reply to this]

Installation by Jake ward on Sunday October 16th 2011, 15:37 Installing it in Linux,showing TF2 starting up as well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuZcdgIhT8 [post new] [reply to this]

Crash on startup by Stefan on Thursday September 1st 2011, 11:06 Hi! Suddenly Steam doesn't start anymore. This has something to do with the nvidia driver (280.13). without the nvidia driver it starts fine but i can't play anything ;) Here the output: $ wine Steam.exe fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} could be created for context 0x1 err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7e1f62c0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 002e, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec) fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module wine: Critical section 7e1f62c0 wait failed at address 0x7bc33d0a (thread 002e), starting debugger... Please help me out here. Tanks a lot in advance! Best, Stefan [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crash on startup by Chris on Monday September 12th 2011, 11:56

• RE: Crash on startup by Stefan on Saturday September 17th 2011, 14:27

• RE: Crash on startup by Artur hoOmE on Tuesday December 13th 2011, 21:36

problemos, officer! by tommi saira on Monday August 29th 2011, 14:04 I am trying to get steam working on arch x86_64 and win 1.3.27 (from multilib). But when trying to login, the login validation window seems to run for a few minutes while it prints to the terminal 'fixme:winhttp:WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser returning no proxy used' and eventually crashing. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: problemos, officer! by Tudor Cirstea on Monday August 29th 2011, 15:40

• RE: problemos, officer! by Tudor Cirstea on Monday August 29th 2011, 16:01

• RE: problemos, officer! by tommi saira on Tuesday August 30th 2011, 7:39

• RE: problemos, officer! by Tudor Cirstea on Tuesday August 30th 2011, 13:20

• RE: problemos, officer! by tommi saira on Tuesday August 30th 2011, 13:48

Continuing (evolving) window problems by Anna on Tuesday July 26th 2011, 23:15 So, the problem where Wine/steam doesn't detect the mouse release (so the Window keeps following the mouse cursor) still exists in wine 1.3.25. In addition, I now have a problem that occurred some time ago recurring: All of Steam's windows flicker constantly. They disappear (i.e. become completely transparent, as opposed to turning solid black or white) and reappear several times per second. It is possible to use Steam like this, but difficult - when the Windows happen to be 'invisible', buttons are also not clickable, so it is often necessary to click the same button several times. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Continuing (evolving) window problems by Anna on Tuesday July 26th 2011, 23:17

• RE: Continuing (evolving) window problems by Luke on Tuesday February 7th 2012, 6:33

• RE: Continuing (evolving) window problems by Bob Wya on Tuesday February 7th 2012, 15:07

Account tab glitched fix by Frozen Fox on Friday July 22nd 2011, 0:48 In the off chance anyone else runs into the same quirk I did, where the 'account' tab was glitched and didn't show up right, the problem is one of the files in your steamapps folder. Either sourceinit.gcf or winui.gcf, both of which appear to be created when you make an empty wineprefix and run steam for the first time. To fix this issue, basically you need to start from scratch, run steam in wine the first time, then copy everything over to the new wineprefix EXCEPT those two files. If you run steam the first time in a fresh wineprefix before copying over any files, you should see the account tab shows up properly. My guess is something in winui.gcf comes from an old version of steam, so it doesn't show up properly if you copy it over to a newer steam version. I doubt this is related to wine, but I expect someone else out there will run into this at some point given how often some of us mess with different wine folders/prefixes. [post new] [reply to this]

System Profiler? by Josh on Sunday June 19th 2011, 21:54 According to xpander69 on the Steam (Powered) User Forums, the system profiler now works with 1.3.22. If so, this represents a fairly significant step, and will hopefully make Wine users visible in the hardware survey. dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screenshot-27.jpg Confirmation, thoughts, comments? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: System Profiler? by Bob Wya on Monday June 20th 2011, 9:08

• RE: System Profiler? by Josh on Monday June 20th 2011, 19:31

Multiple windows by florent on Sunday June 5th 2011, 16:21 I have exaclty the same problem than mAd mURDOCK [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Multiple windows by mAd mURDOCK on Thursday June 9th 2011, 9:45

Steam closes itself at startup by Will on Saturday May 21st 2011, 18:30 I start up steam and it loads. As soon as steam opens up, it closes. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam closes itself at startup by ws on Saturday May 28th 2011, 1:30
• RE: Steam closes itself at startup by Samuel Clarke on Wednesday June 1st 2011, 12:42
• RE: Steam closes itself at startup by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 16:25
• RE: Steam closes itself at startup by Christopher Cope on Thursday February 16th 2012, 15:26

Bug assignment by quaker on Friday May 20th 2011, 9:25 Can some maintainer here assign this bug to the application? It's not only TF2 specific. This bug happens not in Steam client itself, it happens in Steam ingame overlay, for every game, in the same way as it happens in most of Source engine games except the ones based on old Source releases like Lost Coast or HL: Source. bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19522 [post new] [reply to this]

Steam crashes after it connects to the account by Theon144 on Friday May 20th 2011, 6:47 Relevant log here: pastebin.com/6481GE7K I'm using Debian Testing (Wheezy), and wine from the ubuntu maverick ppa. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam crashes after it connects to the account by Theon144 on Friday May 20th 2011, 8:21
• RE: Steam crashes after it connects to the account by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 16:34

• RE: Steam crashes after it connects to the account by Roland Haeder on Friday August 5th 2011, 8:27

• RE: Steam crashes after it connects to the account by Theon144 on Friday August 5th 2011, 10:42

steam with gnome3 and gnome-shell by mAd mURDOCK on Tuesday May 17th 2011, 10:02 when using steam with wine on gnome3 (archlinux testing repo), all steam windows get mirrored / tiled endlessly to the right and bottom. more easy to explain with a screenshot: i52.tinypic.com/15horqf.jpg this is just cosmetic, but it sure does handling steam much more annoying. anyone got an idea how to fix this? wine 1.3.20 running here with gnome-shell 3.0.1 [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: steam with gnome3 and gnome-shell by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 16:45

Different Window Problem by Yankee on Wednesday May 11th 2011, 16:29 I'm having a strange problem with Steam. When I grab the top of the window to try to move it around the screen, or to my secondary monitor, as soon as I let go of the mouse, Steam will jump to a random point on the screen. It sometimes even goes offscreen, and I have to kill the process and restart Steam to get the window back. I don't use the command to run Steam in it's own window (I think the command is something like "wine desktop=1024x768" or something similar), but maybe I have to? Here's the command the launcher is using: env WINEPREFIX="/home/yankee/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/yankee/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/Steam.lnk Running Ubuntu "Natty Narwhal" 11.04 x64 Desktop Specs: Mainboard - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83 GHz Video - NVidia 8800 GTS (with "version current" drivers) Memory - 4GB Total, 2x 2GB 800MHz [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Different Window Problem by SlothLordKarl on Thursday May 12th 2011, 20:10
• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Tuesday May 17th 2011, 12:30

• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Tuesday May 17th 2011, 13:26

• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Wednesday May 18th 2011, 16:13

• RE: Different Window Problem by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 16:52

• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 15:03

• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 15:50

• RE: Different Window Problem by Bob Wya on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 17:55

• RE: Different Window Problem by Anna on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 23:25

• RE: Different Window Problem by Bob Wya on Wednesday June 15th 2011, 11:23

Installing allfonts with winetricks by Bobby on Sunday April 24th 2011, 21:43 When trying to install allfonts using winetricks, I got the same 404 and "opensymbol failed" response as a few other people. My problem was that my winetricks script was out of date. I checked the version number on the couple of winetricks files in my home folder; there was "winetricks," but there was also "winetricks.1" and "winetricks.2". I checked the version numbers, and the original one was an older file, while my "winetricks.1" file was the up-to-date. Fix: make sure your latest version of winetricks is named "winetricks" and not "winetricks.". Then downloading allfonts works perfectly. [post new] [reply to this]

Buying Games by Josh on Wednesday April 20th 2011, 1:23 Can the howto be updated? I've had no problems with buying games on Steam (have bought maybe half a dozen)? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Buying Games by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 16:56

Steam Guard by Maquis196 on Wednesday April 13th 2011, 17:12 Hi all, I'm just wondering, has anyone figured out a fix for steam guard? I don't see any mention of it and having to put in a code everytime I load up steam got old really quick :) Having had my steam account hacked once before I would prefer to use it but alas I disabled it, if anyone figures out a way to keep it on and to keep whatever token enables it then please let me know! Cheers, Maq [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam Guard by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 17:19

• RE: Steam Guard by Maquis196 on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 3:56

by tyler on Sunday April 3rd 2011, 23:33 what were to happen if i bought a game not in browser? is there anyway to play that game? [post new] [reply to this]

by tyler on Sunday April 3rd 2011, 23:33 what were to happen if i bought a game not in browser? is there anyway to play that game? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Evan Goers on Monday April 4th 2011, 1:04

• RE: by tyler on Monday April 4th 2011, 19:29

• RE: by Collin on Monday April 4th 2011, 20:03

• RE: by tyler on Wednesday April 6th 2011, 22:54

• RE: by Jouni Järvinen on Thursday May 19th 2011, 7:59

Recently updating Debian causes Steam to spawn steamerrorrepor with Steam crashing by Collin on Monday March 14th 2011, 16:02 I just recently updated Debian and now I can't get steam to run anymore. Steamerrorrepor shows up in the System Monitor, but does nothing but crashes my Steam. This might be because of that New Steam Guard protection. And every time I attempt to login, it always states that I'm on a new computer. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Recently updating Debian causes Steam to spawn steamerrorrepor with Steam crashing by Collin on Wednesday March 16th 2011, 11:22

Symlinking Steam onto other storage media by Jouni Järvinen on Tuesday March 8th 2011, 11:55 Since my EeePC900 has slow 16GB SSD, I want to place some programs to an SD card but symlinking prevents Steam from starting by simply giving me msgbox with text "Failed to start". Is this possible at all ? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Symlinking Steam onto other storage media by Bob Wya on Thursday May 19th 2011, 7:23

• RE: Symlinking Steam onto other storage media by Jouni Järvinen on Thursday May 19th 2011, 7:30

• RE: Symlinking Steam onto other storage media by Bob Wya on Thursday May 19th 2011, 7:51

• RE: Symlinking Steam onto other storage media by Jouni Järvinen on Thursday May 19th 2011, 7:55

Steam failing to display certain dialogs by WindPower on Wednesday March 2nd 2011, 8:56 Any HTML-based dialog (news pop-up, patch notes, bottom section on download dialogs, and installation license agreements) all crash Steam as soon as they appear. This prevents Steam from starting if you have news pop-ups on (which is on by default, so a default install will crash), completely prevents installing games with a license agreement, and prevent Steam client updates because the update notice instantly crash Steam. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam failing to display certain dialogs - FIX!! by Tim on Thursday April 7th 2011, 20:03

GameOverlayRenderer Bug Fix by Artur hoOmE on Tuesday March 1st 2011, 23:26 Some people, like me, have the problem with the gameoverlayrenderer.dll on steam, and have to turn off Steam Community InGame to play the games. I solved this problem. You need to acess winecfg and add a new application on aplications tab, select steam.exe on steam folder. with the steam.exe selected in aplications, go to libraries and add a new Library Substituction named: gameoverlayrender and set to disabled. Head back to aplications, select default configuration and make sure that gameoverlayrenderer isn't present there. Now open your steam, the steam program gona to igore the gameoverlay renderer but the game itself not, so, the game gonna open with the Steam Community InGame. I don't know where post this tutorial, so, i post here in comments. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: GameOverlayRenderer Bug Fix by Bob Wya on Monday June 13th 2011, 17:25

• RE: GameOverlayRenderer Bug Fix by a player on Sunday December 2nd 2012, 8:50

All steam games refuse to launch by Collin on Monday February 14th 2011, 19:37 fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table As of Wine 1.3.13, all of my steam games contain the error "This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time." The above is a post of the terminal output. Running Debian Squeeze, 9800GT, C2Q6600, Drivers 195xx [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: All steam games refuse to launch by Collin on Tuesday February 15th 2011, 19:48

• RE: All steam games refuse to launch by Collin on Tuesday February 15th 2011, 20:07

Problem with Winetricks package download by Rashkavar on Sunday February 13th 2011, 6:27 Running Debian unstable, Wine 1.3.13, and attempting to download the fonts packages using the "sh winetricks corefonts allfonts tahoma gecko gecko-dbg vcrun2005" command as given in the procedure. If "allfonts" is excluded, the remaining packages install normally, but with "allfonts," after successfully downloading a couple of hundred fonts, it encounters the following error: Executing wget -O ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb --2011-02-13 04:16:40-- ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb Resolving ftp.us.debian.org... 128.30.2.36, 64.50.233.100, 35.9.37.225, ... Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org|128.30.2.36|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-02-13 04:16:40 ERROR 404: Not Found. ------------------------------------------------------ Note: command 'wget -O ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb' returned status 8. Aborting. ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ opensymbol failed ------------------------------------------------------ This error causes the command to stop. By looking at the error message, I checked the ftp server being accessed, and while the ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ folder exists, it does not contain the file being accessed; instead of "ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb," it has "ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11+squeeze2_all.deb". This is likely an updated version of the file, but it causes problems with the download. As some fonts were installed and I am quite certain Steam does not call for everything contained in something with such a broad name as "allfonts," I ignored the error and continued with the installation. Installation proceeded normally, and the login screen works fine, but after the dialog attempting to log on to Steam, the program simply cuts off. Presumably the two errors are linked. Is there some way to either have the sh winetricks command ignore errors or redirect it to this alternate opensymbol file? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Problem with Winetricks package download by Collin on Monday February 14th 2011, 18:46

• RE: Problem with Winetricks package download by Rashkavar on Monday February 14th 2011, 20:41

wine trick packages error by nikolaj on Thursday February 10th 2011, 3:24 when i try to install the wine trick packages it gives me this error message. Note: command 'wget -O ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11_all.deb' returned status 8. Aborting. ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ opensymbol failed plz help me, what should i do to not get this message [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: wine trick packages error by Rashkavar on Thursday February 10th 2011, 23:02

• RE: wine trick packages error by Rashkavar on Thursday February 10th 2011, 23:07
• RE: wine trick packages error by Grégoire on Monday February 14th 2011, 11:08

• RE: wine trick packages error by morel on Friday February 25th 2011, 15:45

• RE: wine trick packages error by Dylan Myers on Thursday February 9th 2012, 12:26

Winetricks by Collin on Wednesday February 2nd 2011, 15:58 I open Steam in the command prompt, attempt to create a new account, (As well as just logging into an account, Steam appears for a split second.) I get this message. fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module My guess is that the opensymbol text format hasn't been found in the repository, causing a fresh install of Steam to not work properly anymore. Anybody know of a fix for this? Installing it from synaptic doesn't work either. [post new] [reply to this]

Completing installation failes by Nickolas Fox on Sunday January 16th 2011, 22:26 I resolve some strange attitude during restoring some of my steam games with wine-1.3.11. The problem appears when the game is downloaded of installed but when i'm trying to play the game steam runs "Completing Installation" dialogue. It hangs for a while then steam says that "Incomplete installation of DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue (or Left 4 Dead 2)" first game I tried to install Super Meat Boy on the same with help of restoring a copy being backup and it worked well and it still works. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Completing installation failes by Nickolas Fox on Monday January 31st 2011, 19:56

running game from kde menu by xamil on Friday January 7th 2011, 19:16 I'm trying to figure how to run games from wine submenu in kde menu. When I try to run game this way nothing happens. So I looked into menu entry and it looks for example like that: env WINEPREFIX="/home/users/Arvenil/.wine" wine winebrowser rungameid/20820 I tried to run this from console (wine winebrowser rungameid/20820) and nothing happens. Then I tried to run a webpage in same way (wine winebrowser www.google.com) and it worked - a google webpage opened in my firefox. So I tried to run rungameid/20820 directly from firefox and it worked - game launched. But still runing wine winebrowser rungameid/20820 doesn't work and doesn't emit any error. Any idea how to debug this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: running game from kde menu by Collin on Saturday January 8th 2011, 12:34

• RE: running game from kde menu by Collin on Monday January 10th 2011, 11:48

torrent client + steam = unable to connect by tom v on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 8:03 if you're having trouble connecting to steam or downloading games try quitting/pausing your torrent client. I have always had trouble connecting, where I have to click retry many times to connect and I just realized that it only happens when transmission is running. when installing games it will say the steam content servers are too busy. starting the torrent client after the game is downloading or after logging in to steam causes no problems. [post new] [reply to this]

Notes outdated? by Kelytha on Tuesday November 30th 2010, 8:15 Shouldn't the notes be updated at some point? It says that the in-game overlays should be disabled because they crash games, which have never happened to me actually on any computers where I installed Steam on Wine in the last six months or so. Or am I just lucky? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Notes outdated? by Kelytha on Tuesday November 30th 2010, 8:17

• RE: Notes outdated? by Bob Wya on Tuesday June 14th 2011, 17:46

• RE: Notes outdated? by Kelytha on Wednesday June 15th 2011, 1:20

Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Mike on Tuesday November 23rd 2010, 11:54 Pull up winecfg then go to the Libraries tab. Add new with name 'gameoverlayrenderer' set to disabled. Solution was scraped from ' www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXGamesApp_SteamSourceGames' Enjoy [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Daniel on Wednesday November 24th 2010, 1:21
• RE: Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Ryan on Saturday November 27th 2010, 9:43

• RE: Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Ryan on Saturday November 27th 2010, 10:14

• RE: Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Mike on Saturday November 27th 2010, 13:51

• RE: Problems launching Source games since Nov 16th Steam Update Solution by Daniel on Sunday November 28th 2010, 4:42

STEAM - Fedora 14 x64 by Ryan on Monday November 22nd 2010, 18:14 Tried to install with much google searching and stuffing around I can get the app to launch and I was able to start it once without it crashing, but every other time it opens the screen and crashes. What I tried: Winetricks...doesn't work in x64, so not able to install most things Tahoma font: solved the crash after initial load where the CellID: nothing beat our initial best time of 7 MS point message was displayed Regkey for Video Memory Size: solved issue where STEAM would logon and crash straight away without displaying anything Where I'm at now is I can logon, steam loads, gets to the point of trying to load the store, and then crashes to desktop, last error output from wine is about being unable to determine the processor information. So I've given up on using steam except within a VM [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: STEAM - Fedora 14 x64 by Ryan on Monday November 22nd 2010, 18:19
• RE: STEAM - Fedora 14 x64 by Ryan on Saturday November 27th 2010, 9:45
• RE: STEAM - Fedora 14 x64 by Ryan on Saturday November 27th 2010, 10:15

• RE: STEAM - Fedora 14 x64 by Sam Jacobson on Thursday December 9th 2010, 20:52

steam games wont start up by elliot on Thursday November 18th 2010, 11:49 im useing linux ubuntu 10.10 on my alienware m11x i had to remove my windows 7 cause it would not start up so when i go to steam steam loads up but when i go play america's army it dose'nt load it wont say preparing to start up america's army like when you start up a game normal i have wine 1.2 and PlayOnLinux that is were i downloaded steam on PlayOnLinux but i got wolfenstien to work the online version but no games wont work at all i followed you steps please help me i want to play america's army so much. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: steam games wont start up by Josh on Friday November 19th 2010, 1:21
• RE: steam games wont start up by Daniel on Sunday November 21st 2010, 4:58

Steasm and manually compiled wine by Marcus Hambraeus on Wednesday November 3rd 2010, 18:39 I'm having some trouble with steam and a manually compiled wine. Each time that I'm using a manually compiled wine version, steam will crash when it should get to displaying the login-window (it patches just fine, asks me to install the service if I've chosen w7 as windows version, otherwise skips this step.). It also spawns steamerrorreporter.exe, and the Steam.exe process is still there, but nothing happens. If I resort to install wine from the ppa, steam works as it should. I've installed all the stuff through winetricks, checked bug reports and everything, but still can't solve the problem. Ideas? Need more info? [post new] [reply to this]

fonts problems... by ariel on Monday November 1st 2010, 11:15 ariel@ariel-System-Product-Name:~$ sh winetricks corefonts allfonts tahoma gecko gecko-dbg vcrun2005 ------------------------------------------------------ sha1sum mismatch! Rename /home/ariel/.cache/winetricks/./arial32.exe and try again. any solution? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: fonts problems... by Roberto Rios on Thursday November 25th 2010, 11:27

• RE: fonts problems... by Matt Bishop on Monday January 9th 2012, 15:39

• RE: fonts problems... by Roberto Rios on Tuesday January 10th 2012, 0:08

slow scrolling by Liam Dawe on Sunday October 31st 2010, 6:57 Does anyone else have extremely slow scrolling when looking at the news in steam? Shouldn't this be smooth as it's just a browser page? [post new] [reply to this]

Steam Store by Lilltiger on Thursday October 28th 2010, 17:52 I am confirming that the steam store works in "wine-1.3.4" I bought Civ5 and downloaded it throught the steam client. The game wont start throught steam thought, I hae to go to the game folder and start it there, but when doing that it log's in to steam, updates the game and runs it just fine. [post new] [reply to this]

Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 7:55 Steam installs fine, updates fine, as I followed the instructions for winetricks...and I get as far as the log in screen... I press the log in button, it says connecting to my account... and then steam crashes. It does this invariably every time. A little help? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Robert K. Pauls on Sunday October 24th 2010, 8:37

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 8:49

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Robert K. Pauls on Sunday October 24th 2010, 9:04

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 10:25
• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 10:30

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 8:47
• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 10:48

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Robert K. Pauls on Sunday October 24th 2010, 13:00

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Sunday October 24th 2010, 13:24

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Reuven Ballaban on Tuesday November 2nd 2010, 16:50

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Wednesday November 10th 2010, 8:42

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Reuven Ballaban on Wednesday November 10th 2010, 9:58

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Reuven Ballaban on Wednesday November 10th 2010, 9:59

• RE: Crash after login with Wine 1.3.5 on Kubuntu 10.04 AMD64 by Richard Gionfriddo on Wednesday November 10th 2010, 22:22

Bizarre by Benjamin Lawrence on Saturday October 9th 2010, 3:06 Running nVidia drivers 195 - I'll have the technicals for it in time, but just found that Steam.exe kept locking up while trying to log in. It was solved, instantly, on the loading of my nVidia X Server Settings manager. Have been playing with it, and it's happened over and over again. Anything that people want me to look at or record? [post new] [reply to this]

by Aniruddha on Saturday September 25th 2010, 4:04 After installing steam it stays minimized. Terminal output shows: CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 9 MS It worked before on the same machine (Debian Squeeze amd64). Is there a fix for this? [post new] [reply to this]

Crash at startup by Marcus Hambraeus on Friday September 3rd 2010, 13:05 I've got some trouble getting this running. When I launch steam, it tries for some time (10 seconds? 20?), and then just exists. When I start it with the terminal I get this output: CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub Assert( Assertion Failed: m_hIOCP ):.\completionportmanager.cpp:31 fixme:threadpool:RtlQueueWorkItem Flags 0x4 not supported CellID: CSDS returned 162 servers. CellID: Connecting to 119.167.242.108:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 119.167.242.108:27031 took 428 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 19 MS err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bca5884 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 005e, blocked by 0050, retrying (60 sec) err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x7bc3592b What am I doing wrong? :/ [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crash at startup by Kaan on Tuesday October 26th 2010, 16:42

Steam installer crashes by Rasmus on Thursday August 26th 2010, 3:05 when running winetricks steam i get the following error. I am running wine 1.3 fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"flexo" (nil) 0x32f160 (nil) 0x32f164 0x32f158 - stub fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"flexo" 0x160cc0 0x32f160 0x160db8 0x32f164 0x32f158 - stub err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"MsiPublishAssemblies" returned 1627 err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627 [post new] [reply to this]

08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Friday August 20th 2010, 18:14 On August 19 2010 (yesterday as of this posting) there was a steam client update: store.steampowered.com/news/4228/ For me, it seems to break many games, including Red Orchestra, Killing Floor, Unreal Tournament 3, Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, Team Fortress 2, Zombie Panic: Source, Portal, Half Life 2 (and both episodes). The first three are Unreal Engine based games and they hang seconds after starting them (the splash screen might show up at most), whereas the rest are based on the Source Engine (Source Engine 15 Build 4274/4295 aka "orangebox") and fail on starting a single player level, or clicking past Ok to close the motd after joining a server in the multiplayer games. I've tried using wine-1.3.0, and wine-1.3.1 and I've tried a new wineprefix, and fresh steam installation. I've tried veriying and defragging the game caches in Steam. In either prefix, Steam Community is disabled, and hl2.exe is set to windows version 98. I'm using Nvidia driver 256.35 -- although I suspect this isn't a graphics/d3d problem. My distro is slackware 13.1, and wine was compiled from git with gcc-4.4.4 with CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native". The games that continue to work are FarCry, Insurgency and Half Life 2 Deathmatch. The latter two running on an older version of the Source engine (Source Engine 7 Build 4044). These games don't use webkit for rendering the in game motds (unlike css/tf2/dods/zps), so the recent changes to webkit in the update _may_ be a point of contention -- although that doesn't seem to explain the UnrealEngine games failing directly on startup, nor the single-player Half-Life 2/Episodes/Portal hanging a second or two after loading a level. I'll proceed to do my best to debug, and hopefully I can pastebin commonalities in error output. I'd like to do this and hopefully get others here to confirm this before I open a bug report. Thank you. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Friday August 20th 2010, 19:09

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by bicer on Friday August 20th 2010, 23:00

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Friday August 20th 2010, 23:24

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Saturday August 21st 2010, 4:48

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by bicer on Saturday August 21st 2010, 7:09

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by bopeng on Saturday August 21st 2010, 18:35

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Sunday August 22nd 2010, 16:32

• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by byteframe on Monday August 23rd 2010, 0:19
• RE: 08/19/2010 Steam Client Update breaking many games? by Tim on Friday September 3rd 2010, 22:06

Incredible ram hog!!! by Emils on Monday August 16th 2010, 3:39 Hello, I am using the stable version of wine (1.2), compiled from source, running on a custom 64 bit kernel with BFS, ubuntu 10.04 on an athlon 64 x2 5000+, 1024 mb of ram and a 8600gt. I installed Steam just yesterday, and I immediately noticed the ram usage, it uses 130-250 mb of ram, which frankly is too much for a system with only one gig of memory. And it is quite slow. Is there a patch or a tweak that could lower the memory usage ? Or is it just the webkit based browser of Steam that's using so much memory ? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Incredible ram hog!!! by James Donley on Wednesday July 20th 2011, 10:53

Another fix for "Cannot connect to Steam network" by Ivan Vučica on Wednesday August 11th 2010, 12:28 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, without any updates (installed yesterday, will update immediately after this) The fix that involves writing to /etc/sysctl.cfg mentioned in the Howto helped me not the "Steam takes too long to start" problem. It has in fact helped me with Steam's inability to connect to its servers. Since I did not want to change system settings, I used a temporary fix. (I presume it will affect the system only until restart.) As the root, I ran echo 131072 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max echo 131072 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max Afterwards, Steam managed to connect to its servers. [post new] [reply to this]

USB microphone not working by James on Monday August 9th 2010, 2:37 I can't get steam to use my USB microphone. I tried running the windows version of audacity, just to make sure the mic worked with wine in general, and it worked fine. This is in Gentoo amd64, with wine 1.2. I have the following registry key entries: ===== [Software\\Wine\\Alsa Driver] "AutoScanCards"="N" "DeviceCount"="1" "DevicePCM1"="default" ===== My .asoundrc: ===== pcm.!default { type asym playback.pcm { type plug slave.pcm "hw:0,0" } capture.pcm { type plug slave.pcm "hw:1,0" } ===== hw:0,0 is a USB Headphone DAC/Amp and hw:1,0 is my Logitech AK5370 microphone. Any ideas? [post new] [reply to this]

Message windows don't appear properly (FIX) by Damian Pound on Saturday August 7th 2010, 17:02 When someone sends a message to you and you don't already have a message window up for that person, the message window will show up as a steam icon in the upper left corner. Resizing it does nothing, to fix it you have to minimize it them restore it or close it and reopen it via the friends menu. [post new] [reply to this]

Won't start in 1.2, no error by Drew on Thursday July 29th 2010, 2:00 So I just installed Wine 1.2 on a multilib Slackware64 box. After this, I installed Steam via Winetricks(following the instructions on this page to a t). Install goes ok, but after it updates it never opens and just uses 50% of my processor(never more or less, but exactly that). I tried the reinstall tip which is suggested above, but after countless reinstalls there is no change whatsoever. There are other comments about this same issue, but they haven't been touched since May and do not have a solution attached to them, so I figured I'd start a new one. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Kris Blackhall on Thursday July 29th 2010, 5:26
• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Wrinkled Cheese on Thursday July 29th 2010, 16:05

• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Drew on Friday July 30th 2010, 2:53

• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Wrinkled Cheese on Friday July 30th 2010, 10:55
• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Wrinkled Cheese on Friday July 30th 2010, 10:57

• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Drew on Friday July 30th 2010, 14:10

• RE: Won't start in 1.2, no error by Drew on Saturday July 31st 2010, 14:09

Crash by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 19:39 Hey everyone, I followed the instructions to install the latest steam using winetricks and I was happy when I saw the Steam Store window, along with the main steam window, pop up. But before anything rendered it crashed. This is when it launches for the first time after install. I got these two error lines when it crashed: err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil) err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x10134 Along with several of these: fixme:threadpool:RtlQueueWorkItem Flags 0x4 not supported I am using an nVidia card(GeForce 6 series) with the 195 series drivers. When I try to run the application from the menu, it lets me log in but before the "Connecting Steam Account: USRENAME..." window, it crashes. When I run wine Steam.exe I get: CellID: CSDS returned 165 servers. CellID: Connecting to 79.141.160.2:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 79.141.160.2:27031 took 152 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 31 MS fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x19b7a0, L"ROOT\\CIMV2", (null), (null), (null), 0x00000080, (null), (nil), 0x32ed9e0) err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} could be created for context 0x1 I have tried deleting the ClientRegistry.blob file and that didn't do anything other than force it to update itself again. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crash by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 19:40
• RE: Crash by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 20:12

• RE: Crash by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 20:14

• RE: Crash by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 20:38

Problem With 1.2 Release by Berillions on Monday July 19th 2010, 2:19 Hello, I have a problem with the new release of Wine. The update succeeded but after to login at Steam (User + password), i see the general Steam's windows but after 5s, Steam crash and close alone. I don't understand because with Wine [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Problem With 1.2 Release by Kris Blackhall on Monday July 19th 2010, 6:31
• RE: Problem With 1.2 Release by William J May on Monday July 26th 2010, 1:27
• RE: Problem With 1.2 Release by William J May on Monday July 26th 2010, 1:31

• RE: Problem With 1.2 Release by Kris Blackhall on Monday July 26th 2010, 4:53

• RE: Problem With 1.2 Release by Wrinkled Cheese on Wednesday July 28th 2010, 22:41

RC7 slowdown by Jan Kaláb on Saturday July 10th 2010, 3:00 Steam is much slower in RC7 then in RC6. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: RC7 slowdown by Kris Blackhall on Saturday July 10th 2010, 7:11

Steam game backups by Anthony Serna on Monday July 5th 2010, 18:34 I just wanted to say that installing / restoring a game from a Steam game file backup works on Wine 1.2 RC6. [post new] [reply to this]

Steam just won't work... by Kenny on Thursday June 24th 2010, 10:54 I have tried everything that has been posted up here and Steam still won't work. I install and everything goes fine, then when it updates it starts as a green window and crashes at 26%, two seconds later it reopens as a grey window and crashes after the update completes, then nothing happens, when I go to open steam it shows a box in the bar at the bottom of the screen and that crashes too. Also when it crashes I see this message in the terminal: fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 157 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 11540 Current serial number in output stream: 11540 Can anyone help me with this, I am pretty new to Linux. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam just won't work... by Frozen Fox on Tuesday June 29th 2010, 21:22

• RE: Steam just won't work... by Frozen Fox on Tuesday June 29th 2010, 21:23

"not enough space" & can't install after "uninstall" by Indelible Bonobo on Wednesday June 16th 2010, 19:45 I first installed Steam with defaults and it worked just great. I wanted to try first Civ III, but the installer reported "not enough space" - it found less than 1.5 GB, and I had more than 10 GB free on my /home partition. Nonetheless, I deleted some crap, but it still did not work. I then decided to uninstall Steam and try to reinstall on a different "drive". The uninstall went uneventfully but the Steam icon was left on the desktop. I then tried to reinstall, and could not. On subsequent attempts I am asked "Are you ready to have the Installation Wizard continue the installation?", I say yes, then an "install" happens very quickly, then I get a message titled "Steam has been successfully installed." with "Steam will now continue installation." inside. Clicking "Finish" closes the window, but nothing else happens. Wineserver, services.exe and winedevice.exe die soon thereafter. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Drew on Saturday July 31st 2010, 13:34

• RE: by Kris Blackhall on Saturday July 31st 2010, 13:48

need help :( by Steve Marmen on Wednesday June 16th 2010, 16:09 I am running newest version of wine, but i am sure somewhere i am messing up. When I click steam it updates 100% then it just sits there on what should be the login screen and does nothing. I dont see anything on my desktop but steam shows up as running on my task bar. I dont have direct X installed yet. I am a linux n00b but would really like if someone could give me step by step instructions on how to do every detail.thanks [post new] [reply to this]

Steam Updates and Crashes by Cardin on Tuesday June 15th 2010, 21:21 I installed the latest Steam.msi. However when I try to launch it, Steam stucks at the 0% update, and subsequently silently crashes. I've tried running on XP and 7 compatibility to no success. No winetricks. Latest Wine. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam Updates and Crashes by Matt Cavanagh on Wednesday June 16th 2010, 8:21

Windows don't closes by Lorenzo on Monday June 14th 2010, 8:59 When i do some work on steam interface i can't close the main windows or the friends window using the 'x' button. When i click on the 'x' button the window disappear but after 1 second it reappears. On windows it don't happen... [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Windows don't closes by william on Monday June 14th 2010, 13:18

steam keeps downloading games on its own...? by william on Tuesday June 1st 2010, 13:21 Steam seems to want me to download and install TF2 and Portal, every time i delete the local content then restart, it shows up as download paused... gets kinda annoying, bug maybe? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: steam keeps downloading games on its own...? by Edward on Tuesday June 1st 2010, 22:22

Slow by Duane on Monday May 31st 2010, 2:46 The Steam interface seems to run slow. Everything works, but it just takes a second to do it. The only problem I found with Steam was that the taskbar icon is missing. [post new] [reply to this]

work flawlessly by antonio on Thursday May 27th 2010, 7:43 I wanted to confirm that with wine-1.2.rc1 steam is working superb. without needing any dll override. I just run winetricks steam. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: work flawlessly by LanDJalan on Thursday June 10th 2010, 4:33

Crashes by Ralesk N on Wednesday May 26th 2010, 18:49 The new Steam client crashes every single time after I login and the browser or the update news window appears. Even with a fresh .wine dir :( And no sign of trouble on the terminal... [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Crashes by Brandon Tomlinson on Thursday May 27th 2010, 8:12

• RE: Crashes by CeePhour on Saturday June 12th 2010, 16:11

by Mike Swanson on Sunday May 23rd 2010, 23:02 Yes, you'll have to remove your ~/.wine and start from scratch. Remember to go into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam and move the steamapps folder out (which contains all your games) before you delete it all! After you install Steam again, move the folder back before logging into Steam. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Mike Swanson on Sunday May 23rd 2010, 23:03

games not working without fresh directx install by N/A on Thursday May 20th 2010, 5:02 i use PoL to run steam and evrything is cool, except i cant play games without a fresh reinstall of the directx dll's every time i relaunch, it there a possible winetricks thing i could do, or a patch? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: games not working without fresh directx install by Edward on Saturday May 22nd 2010, 23:16

• RE: games not working without fresh directx install by N/A on Sunday May 23rd 2010, 1:20

by Hit in the Head on Tuesday May 18th 2010, 16:19 Wow, that's strange! I've only experienced it not present (a transparent box) when not syncing or updating. This was on multiple installs clean and upgrading from the old beta - ubuntu 9 and 10. [post new] [reply to this]

Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by Benjamin Xiao on Monday May 17th 2010, 12:18 Whenever I move Steam windows around by dragging them, they always teleport to somewhere else other than where I dragged them to. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by Clayton Hobbs on Tuesday May 18th 2010, 11:28

• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by Benjamin Xiao on Saturday May 22nd 2010, 18:57

• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by Edward on Saturday May 22nd 2010, 23:18
• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by Alexey Loukianov on Thursday June 17th 2010, 3:32

• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by 5arge on Monday July 26th 2010, 23:15

• RE: Steam windows do not move to where you drag them. by dan on Sunday July 4th 2010, 19:35

Steam fonts are messed up. by Benjamin Xiao on Monday May 17th 2010, 12:16 All of the fonts in steam are very aliased and italicized. Which fonts do I need to install in order to get the fonts in the new Steam UI to display correctly? I don't want to use winetricks as I don't like how it messes up the wineprefix. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam fonts are messed up. by Benjamin Xiao on Saturday May 29th 2010, 16:44

Steam installs and seems to run until first update by Wrinkled Cheese on Friday May 14th 2010, 17:00 Hey everyone, I'm a bit confused as to why steam seems to be running but I get no GUI. I'm running Slackware 64 with multi-lib for wine 32-bit compatibility. I installed wine and everything seemed to go okay. The first time Steam ran it said updating steam and went to 24% then closed and then came back at 33% and the window colour changed from green to dark grey. It gets to 100% updating but Steam.exe keeps running. Now when I run the command provided in this appdb entry or if I just click on the Steam icon in the KDE wine menu entry. Steam runs, and uses nearly 100% processor, but nothing comes up, IE a GUI. So I tried running the command used by the KDE menu entry item at command line and I get the same thing as if I use the command: cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam && WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam -applaunch 240 The KDE menu entry command is: env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "start" /Unix "/home/username/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/username/Start Menu/Programs/Steam/Steam.lnk" These both produce this outputs as well as a process called steam(appdb recommended command) or Steam.exe(menu item): appdb recommended command CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . CellID: CSDS returned 165 servers. CellID: Connecting to 119.167.242.114:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 119.167.242.114:27031 took 336 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 33 MS KDE menu entry: fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00004100 username@machinename:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam$ CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. CellID: CSDS returned 164 servers. CellID: Connecting to 208.111.158.51:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 208.111.158.51:27031 took 73 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 33 MS fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithDataSegs I'm tempted to wait for a day or so just to make sure it's not doing something that takes a long time in the background. I am running Wine 1.1.44 I have a GeForce 6200 using the latest nVidia driver, as of a week ago or so: 195.36.24 I had wine running steam and counterstrike source 5 years ago under the same distro, Slackware, although my version back then was 9.0 or 10.0. I am curious as to what I should do to get this to work properly. As you can tell there aren't any errors that I can Google or search for so I'm asking questions and hope someone knows the answer. I can provide you with any information you need. I tried installing it manually by running the wine msiexec /a SteamInstall.msi. I tried using winetricks but everything ends in the exact same behaviour except the slight difference mentioned above. I posted this in an obsolete thread by accident. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam installs and seems to run until first update by Edward on Friday May 14th 2010, 18:06

• RE: Steam installs and seems to run until first update by Markus on Sunday May 30th 2010, 10:06

Steam 2010 and webkit crashing, Game Icons by byteframe on Monday May 10th 2010, 22:10 Finally fiqured out how to make my steam installation to stop crashing when I tried to access any functionality that used webkit! You need the Arial.TTF font (or 'corefonts' from winetricks). I don't like to use clutter my wineprefix with redistributables, and extra font files etc. For those like me, know that you need to install this font apparently. Other than vcrun2005, and the Arial.TTF font my wineprefix is quite clean. Also, someone mentioned that steam is not properly creating desktop icons. After fixing the new steam, I installed portal, and the Portal.desktop file is created, incomplete: [Desktop Entry] Name=Portal Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/byteframe/.wine" wine "winebrowser" rungameid/400 Type=Application StartupNotify=true Also, the icon file is not created in $HOME/.local/share/icons. (Anybody got the portal icon?) Here is the desktop file for Counter Strike source installed from before steam upgraded to the new version: [Desktop Entry] Name=Counter-Strike Source Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/byteframe/.wine" wine "C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steam.exe" -applaunch 240 Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/byteframe/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Steam Icon=/home/byteframe/.local/share/icons/2bc3_d5313c390eebdbc4480787826ccc24ef39c97ed7.png It looks like the new steam is creating icons that start the game using the "" url-thingy. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Steam 2010 and webkit crashing, Game Icons by Javier Kohen on Friday June 25th 2010, 16:44

Can't connect anymore by Mrcl Pfffr on Saturday May 8th 2010, 15:10 Since yesterday I can't connect to Steam anymore. Tried it with 1.1.41 & .44. Different Windows versions didn't change it. Every time I start Steam it asks me to install the service component - I accept it. I don't think this works properly but there is no error message. And it didn't stop Steam from connecting before. Afterwards Steam tells me it can't connect. Offline mode works great. Log: pastebin.com/3EdN9FVJ [post new] [reply to this]