Steam/CS:S error

[tipalm73]

Hi I have googled and searched and found a few topics regarding my problem...but no answers.

Here is the error i get:

SteamStartup() failed: SteamStartup(0xf,0x0034E064) failed with error 1:
The registry is in use by another process, timeout expired.


I am running Feisty Fawn.

AMD64
1 GIG DDR
ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9600 series
wine 0.9.39

[dfreer]

Try reinstalling steam + wine would be my solution (you can backup your *.gcf files beforehand so you don't have to redownload them).

[Dritzen]

I get this error constantly when using Steam. Reinstalling did not help but I've found a way to get Half-Life 2 based games to work most of the time.

If I run Half-Life 2, Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat Source, of Sin Episodes: Emergence (all Half-Life 2 based games), and I get that error, here is what I do

I run the original counter-strike, click new game, let it load up a game so that I am in a map of CS by myself. Loading up a multiplayer game will work too. Then I quit out and try to run the Half-Life 2 based game. 80% of the time, it works.

If it doesn't work, running another Half-Life 2 based game works. I'll load up Sin, load my quicksave, quit out of Sin, and then suddenly Half-Life 2 will work properly.

It's a huge pain and it's been happening for about 6 versions of Wine now.