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Latest 1.4rc5 Breaks Valve's STEAM Client ??? Hi, I installed Wine 1.4rc5 into my LinuxMint 12 KDE 64Bit Linux OS. I then installed Valve's STEAM client into Wine. When I log into STEAM, I receive an error and then it closes??? Backtrace is here: http://pastebin.com/iDxkehT5 It was working in Wine 1.4rc4. How do I install 1.4rc4 over 1.4rc5 so I can play STEAM ??? Thanks! Jesse

hey guys, I posted a thread over at the ubuntu forums as well. heres the link. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=900688 Hey guys, I am having a problem running steam on wine. I am running the latest wine from the respos. and i am on hardy. 86 x64. I have a nvidia geforce 9600gt with the latest drivers installed. When i try to install steam it loads fine with no errors at all. I can

Hey guys, Can anyone help me close the gap between my POL and Wine setups? I currently have a laptop running PlayOnLinux 3.8.8 and a desktop running only Wine 1.3.9 (Fedora 14). As the subject read, the laptop with POL is running fine, but a generic install with the latest .msi file from the Steam website is not. Steam on Wine, was able to run it's own autoupdate, but after that refuses

I am trying to track down a crash in Steam (Steam itself, not a game through it). In following appdb instructions for Steam I realized that it was installed in /home/tparker/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steam.exe and not in :~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files> where I had expected it, although that second directory does have a SteamInstall.msi sitting in it but

Hello folks, I've a problem. I just installed Jaunty, and, thanks to Wine, the latest version of Steam. But, after the installation, it doesn't open. It just stays in processes as "Steam.exe" @ sleeping. Any solutions? (I tried running it on both XP and Vista mode)

I am using Mint. Everytime I try to login to steam it will login and it will bring up which of my friends are online and then crashes. Is there any help?

I just installed steam+TMN and it seems to run quite well apart from sound. I tried switching to OSS and got not sound while on ALSA I get the occasional "click" and thats about it. Other software I have run through wine is WAR beta and WoW both of which play sound fine, so I suspect maybe Steam is holding up the sound device or something? I am on Ubuntu Hardy. I also used winetricks

Hello, I'm using steam on wine for a long time now, after an update a couple of weeks ago my Steam.exe displays an error : "Steam.exe (main exception): Cannot open blob archive file: CMultiFieldBlob(mem-mapped file): Failed to MapViewOfFile" I'm not using a NTFS partition tu install steam or tu run wine. So I'm a bit helpless I hope you guys can help me

What is the current status of Steam games in Wine? Some people claim same or better performance than Windows and other say its much worse. At least with TF2, the game goes from great performance with decent settings in Windows, to barely playable with all settings on low in Wine. Can Steam games run well in Wine without having a machine so powerful it can overcome any software problems? Is there a

I'm wondering if anyone can help me? I'm trying to run Secret of Monkey Island special edition in Steam on wine with Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. I can install steam and use it to install the game (after it installs directx), apparently with no problems, but when I try to run the game, a window opens saying "Preparing to launch The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition". This

Hey I managed to walkaround that you cant run the MSI installer for steam in Wine 1.01 , but i cant start the steam program. First i got that it crashed in update but i walkaround that as well, now i cant start the program steam, no error messege or anything.... Any ideas?

I there, I recently installed wine, and followed this document https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CounterStrike to install steam. After installing steam I logged into my account and installed Day of Defeat Source from my steam account. After downloading and installing when I click play I got this error in my command line: errle:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil) errle:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd

I decided to dabble with Mint and loaded it on our Notebook which is primarily for my wife, one thing I need to get working stat is Luxor quest for the afterlife through steam.. I have loaded steam and installed Luxor however when I launch luxor it will start loading (steam screen) and then disappear.. any ideas how I can get this running so I can then start learning about mint/linux.. need

I am running wine 1.1.43 in Debian Squeeze (32 bit) and still receive this error. My console gets flooded with the message "fixme:threadpool:RtlQueueWorkItem Flags 0x4 not supported" after I login to steam and as soon as the main steam menu appears, it crashes. Has anyone else still received problems with the new steam GUI?

I am running wine1.3, installed from the winehq repo on ubuntu 10.10. I installed steam through winetricks, nothing else. After this i told steam to start installing civ V. And for some time it just downloader with 1.4mb/sec. then suddenly everything stopped... and all i could squeeze out of my connection was 150kb/sek. Is there anything in wine1.3, or perhaps steam running under wine1.3 that

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest version of Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, and after setting up my hardware I installed Wine 1.1.12, and have been working on getting HL2 running, but with little/no success. I got Steam installed, but when it opens none of the HTML pages render (saying "HTML is currently disabled."), and when I go to the My Games tab to have it download any of the

Hello ! Since 1.1.29 steam windows are funny. They change background colors, and text is not visible anymore. Perhaps JPEG... Does anyone have this similar bug ?

I just set up Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my Compaq Presario C712nr laptop, and I was hoping that someone could help me to set up Steam so that it will fully function. I have previously tried this, yet was unable to get the Steam Community working properly with its chat functions and such. This was a real dealbreaker for me, as Steam Community is my primary social networking service. If anyone could

I'm about to try out Team Fortress 2 because my friends wanted me to join in with them, and I'm using Wine to run Steam. However, because I'm new to this Steam business and everything, I'm just curious -- how do I install a game using Steam as the AppDB says? Or, how do I move TF2 files to this "steamapps" folder, and if that is the preferred method, how can I get the

i have steam installed fine, everything works the way its suppost to, but i cant get CS or any of the 1.6 games to open. when i open any of them it makes my desktop rediculously big and i cant click on anything. the only way to get out of it is to hit ctrl alt delete and log out. anyone have any ideas? steam is like the only reason i got wine.