I have read over and over about people having the same issues with Steam in wine - none of them had the new rc 1.0, but I'm still experiencing the same problems - the frame rate issues, as well as the weird green textures in the start-up screen. Anyway... everyone says its DirectX 9.0's fault, and to run it under 8.0. The problem is... I only have a shortcut for Steam, and the system, for some reason, wont let me create individual shortcuts for Portal, HL2E2, etc... and thats the only way I know of to change those parameters is in the command shortcut dialogue. Can someone help me out with this one? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Xephrey_J
Right-click on a game on the list, choose properties. Find the button marked Launch Options. Add -dxlevel 81 to force the game to run in DirectX 8.1.
When I do that it brings up an error prompt: SteamStartup() failed: SteamStartup(0xf,0x0033E504)failed with error 1: The registry is in use by another process, timeout expired What would that be? Thanks for the fast response. :)
That seems to be a common issue when it comes to Steam under Wine. It has to do with Linux caching some files when Steam wants to use them. But there is a way to fix it. Verify the local game contents. Right-click on the game and choose properties. Under the tab "Local Files" choose "Verify integrity of game cache".