wine users - Nov 2011 - Cannot start Amnesia nor Penumbra via Steam

Greetings!

First of all, I would like to say thank you to everyone who are spending their
time into making Wine what it is, and better!
I would offer my help if I had the ability to actually do something, but I have
yet much to learn, but in the future, perchance...


Anyways!  A few days ago, I thought I would play some Penumbra: Overture.  I
have played it before, so I was a bit surprised as it would not start.  All that
happens is, a black screen will appear momentarily (or the screen will go black
depending if the fullscreen is set to true or false in the configuration file),
then just nothing!

So I tried some other games and noticed that Amnesia: The Dark Descent does not
launch either.

Neither of the games are spitting anything of interest into terminal.  While The
Dark Descent throws a list of graphics-chips as usual, and then just dies,
Overture says the same as I think the other Penumbra games do.

This leads to perhaps the most interesting aspect of the issue, which is the
fact that Penumbra: Black Plague and Penumbra: Requiem both start just fine,
both of which I have not played before, and yes, I have tried clean installs of
wine, steam, and the game(s)...

I couldn't find any problems with WINEDEBUG=opengl and other channels that I
tried, and thought I would post about this here, before going in more deeper, to
see if there is anyone around with some knowledge about this already.


I am using Gentoo Linux, and regarding drivers and wine versions, here is some
info on what I have tried.  I can not remember specifically which combination of
everything I was using when everything did work, but I did get some hints from
my logs, such as it would seem I was using  xorg-server version  1.10.4  around
that time, which I cannot try by normal means now as it is no longer available
in Portage.  The versions that are available are  1.9.5-r1  and  1.10.4-r1  as
well as the keyworded  1.11.1-r1  which I am currently running due to this
testing.

Another 'bigger' thing that has changed during this time and which I
have not (yet) tried to roll-back is the Kernel version change from  2.6.39-r3 
to  3.0.6  not long ago.

As for nvidia-drivers, I have tried several versions ranging from  275.21  to 
290.03  and Wine versions from  1.2.3  to  9999  and many, many versions
in-between.


I'm really running out of ideas as to what to try.  I even tried starting
the games with WINEDEBUG=relay, and it made no difference and I couldn't
notice anything notable in the output (I did not however look into it too much
yet as it was just a quick test).
So any ideas and/or tips would be most appreciated!

I will list below some of the versions I have tried out just now, in more tidy
fashion, as well as the terminal output without any debugging channels enabled.

The issue is likely caused something very simple that I just can't quite get
through to...yet.
Thank you for reading!


Code:
System uname:
Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3

gentoo-sources-3.0.6

gcc-4.5.3-r1

xorg-server-1.10.4-r1
xorg-server-1.11.1-r1

nvidia-drivers-275.21
nvidia-drivers-285.05.09
nvidia-drivers-290.03

wine-1.2.3
wine-1.3.14
wine-1.3.24
wine-1.3.29
wine-1.3.30
wine-9999


Penumbra: Overture (not working)


Code:
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x4013e
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.
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000409", 0080: stub!
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000809", 0001: stub!
fixme:wgl:X11DRV_wglChoosePixelFormatARB unused pfAttribFList


Penumbra: Requiem (working)


Code:
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x130146
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.
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000409", 0080: stub!
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000809", 0001: stub!
fixme:wgl:X11DRV_wglChoosePixelFormatARB unused pfAttribFList


Amnesia: The Dark Descent (not working)


Code:
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x120140
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.
Pre-Sort
quadro fx
geforce fx
geforce gt
geforce gts
geforce gt2s
geforce gtx
geforce xpress
geforce
mobile intel(r) series express chipset family
graphics media accelerator
intel(r) hd graphics
radeon
radeon hd
amd
mesa
Post-Sort
mobile intel(r) series express chipset family
graphics media accelerator
intel(r) hd graphics
quadro fx
geforce fx
geforce gt
geforce gts
geforce gt2s
geforce gtx
geforce xpress
radeon hd
geforce
radeon
amd
mesa
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000409", 0080: stub!
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_LoadKeyboardLayout L"00000809", 0001: stub!

These games are natively for linux.

That is a very good point, however, I am aware of it and I did not purchase the
Linux version(s).  Why?  Well all the four games were sold very cheap via Steam,
and what is more, I learned of the Linux versions after buying them (or around
the same time, either way, they were very, very cheap).  :]

I might buy the Linux versions in the future, but that is not the point of this
thread, at all.  ^^

Thank you for the reply.


Also, since editing is disabled, I shall mention here that one other change that
can be problematic and occurred recently was the move from libpng 1.4 to 1.5.

Chiitoo wrote:
> 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.
This is your problem. Do what it says. Steam does not like to crash, and this
leads to a crash.