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Hey everyone! I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 w/ ALSA and the Ubuntu-packaged ATI Catalyst driver for my ATI X1700. My problem is that I'll be playing CounterStrike or Half-Life or BrainBread for maybe 2 minutes if I'm lucky, and then suddenly my computer locks up. I get to hear the same 1-second slice of in-game sound over and over again and the screen stays frozen. In CS:CZ, it seems that

Code: $ wine start SteamInstall.msi fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found Or by running outside terminal, I get the wine error dialog "Success" with the red circle next to it and a little OK under it. lol, "Error: Success" Wine 1.1.4

Hi people. So I got Steam running properly in WINE by reverting to version 177 of the nVidia driver. Now I have a new problem. I have really shitty performance for Source games in WINE. This means rainbow-y colors, glistening walls, at ~13 fps with all lowest graphics settings. High quality native linux games run beautifully at all highest settings, including Penumbra and Prey and Quake 4. I