Steam

[Nicktu]

Does anyone know how i can install Steam on my linux box to i can play the game counterstrike, there is no download for linux except for the beta version, but ive heard there are ways around it! please help

[stoffe]

Just follow instructions here (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1554&iTestingId=3) or here (http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17). Then install CS from within Steam as per usual.

I recommend getting the newest wine directly from the Wine HQ. Also, yes, it might freeze on updating itself as it says in the second link, but it will work eventually, just keep trying.

I also made a modified startup script based on the one in the second link, something like this:
#!/bin/bash
cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/
WINEDEBUG="-all" wine Steam.exe -applaunch 10 -heapsize 300000 &

Works just fine actually, although I think the performance might be a bit lower than on Windows. Have no Win partition anymore so can't test it for sure, just seem to recall quite a bit higher numbers for fps and so on...

Also remember to get real drivers for your card, so you have real 3D acceleration.

[Nicktu]

thanks! but i went through that process and i have the source made and the binary in the synaptic package manager, but then it tells me

Installing from the WineHQ APT Repository with the console:

If your system doesn't use a graphical package manager like Synaptic, you will need to edit APT's configuration file by hand. You will need root access to do this and run the commands below. Switch to root by typing 'su'. If you are an Ubuntu user, you can instead precede each command with 'sudo'. Now, use your favorite text editor to open the file /etc/apt/sources.list or use the console editor by typing 'nano /etc/apt/sources.list' and then add the following lines to the end:

deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
deb-src http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ source/

Then, you can run 'apt-get update' to update APT's package information. Finally, to install Wine, do 'apt-get install wine'.

If you want to make sure that apt-get will install the WineHQ wine package instead of the Debian wine package (which usually has the same version), then add something like the following entry to /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: wine
Pin: release l=WineHQ APT Repository
Pin-Priority: 1000

Or alternatively use a modified rule to adjust the installation relationship between WineHQ and Debian packages in a different way.

im not sure what any of that means, sorry man im a linux noobie

[stoffe]

If you have added those URLs like it says, in Synaptic, all you need to do is search for the package "wine" in Synaptic and install (or upgrade) it. You can ignore the rest of the instructions, that is just another way to do it.

[Nicktu]

im having some trouble installing the wine CVS is there an easier way to install that? cuz my noobie-ness is kicking in, its complicated because of the changeing of the file name, or is there a step by step process somewhere thats easier?

[stoffe]

No need to go with Wine CVS. Just follow the instructions here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

In short, add a new custom repository in Synaptic, with this line:
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt breezy/
You don't need the source version.

Then, in Synaptic, find and install the package wine. That should be all, after that you can proceed with installing Steam itself.

[alexmap]

I installed Steam using the guides provided [LinuX gamers website], but I keep getting this error [Steam update gets to 26% and stops there, every time]:

Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR: delete of Steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 32 "Sharing violation"

Someone else on the forums had a similar problem, they fixed it by deleting Steam.exe and renaming the SteamNew.exe file [to Steam.exe] that was downloaded during the "update." I tried this as well, but it didn't work...

[linkunderscore]

I installed Steam using the guides provided [LinuX gamers website], but I keep getting this error [Steam update gets to 26% and stops there, every time]:

Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR: delete of Steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 32 "Sharing violation"

Someone else on the forums had a similar problem, they fixed it by deleting Steam.exe and renaming the SteamNew.exe file [to Steam.exe] that was downloaded during the "update." I tried this as well, but it didn't work...


do this:
killall -9 wine-preloader ; wineboot

[alexmap]

That didn't work either...

err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 36 bytes in thread 003b eip 00446fe7 esp 7d74bfdc stack 0x7d74b000-0x7d84c000

err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 0 bytes in thread 0037 eip 7bebd0d9 esp 7f9e1000 stack 0x7f9e0000-0x7fae0000

That's the error that shows up in the terminal, then the "Win32 error 32" message comes out.

EDIT: Never mind, it sort of worked... but now something else isn't working; here's a screenshot of what appears in the terminal. [Thanks, by the way]

[YokoZar]

EDIT: Never mind, it sort of worked... but now something else isn't working; here's a screenshot of what appears in the terminal. [Thanks, by the way]
Are you attempting to run steam off of some other hard disk with Windows on it?

That won't work anymore than running applications over a shared disk in Windows. You need to install applications fresh into Wine's virtual windows drive.

[alexmap]

Are you attempting to run steam off of some other hard disk with Windows on it?

That won't work anymore than running applications over a shared disk in Windows. You need to install applications fresh into Wine's virtual windows drive.

No, I'm using the Steam installer and everything to install it into Wine's "drive_c" and everything, although I do have Steam on another partition.

EDIT: Tried to get this thing working once again, had an error (something about shdocvw.dll requiring a "CRYPTUI.dll", so I copied the file from my actual Windows partition and placed it in Wine's "windows" folder) that I got around, and steam starts... but there's no text. Here's another screenshot...

[TrinitronX]

It looks like you need some windows ttf fonts installed into wine or your system. I believe the two that are needed are: MARLETT.TTF and tahoma.ttf.
I just copied these 2 fonts over from my windows hard drive into the 'drive_c/windows/Fonts' directory in my cvscedega folder.

I have been trying to get steam working for a while now too... but I've had no luck installing it or using the version I copied over from my windows drive.
I am using cvscedega for it instead of wine (I heard somewhere it may work better than wine.. but haven't had any luck at all with it :roll:)
I can get the program to run, but I get some errors when running it, both in my terminal and an actual 'windows' error :P:
trinitronx@Arcturus:~/.cvscedega/drive_c/Program Files/Steam$ cvscedega Steam.exe
For language 'en' several language ids were found:
en_US - 0409; en_GB - 0809; en_AU - 0C09; en_CA - 1009; en_NZ - 1409; en_IE - 1809; en_ZA - 1C09; en_JM - 2009; en_ - 2409; en_BZ - 2809; en_TT - 2C09;
Instead of using first in the list, suggest to define
your LANG environment variable like this: LANG=en_US
err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
err:task:GetThreadQueue16 Breaking 16 bit for tid 2
err:task:GetThreadQueue16 Breaking 16 bit for tid 2
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Load Configuration directory ignored
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Load Configuration directory ignored
fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD GDPERF. Try --winver nt40 or win31 !
fixme:ver:GetVersionExA OSVERSIONINFOA is too large (possibly OSVERSIONINFOEXA)
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Load Configuration directory ignored
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Load Configuration directory ignored
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Load Configuration directory ignored
fixme:win:GetProcessWindowStation (void): stub
fixme:win32:GetUserObjectInformationA (0x1 1 0xb79ff2bc 12 0xb79ff2c8),stub!
fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet.


Attached is an image of both my terminal and the error window I'm getting.

[niels]

I have installed Steam with the insctruction sugested in this thread

Just follow instructions here (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1554&iTestingId=3) or here (http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17). Then install CS from within Steam as per usual.


It halted all the time. Then there it got possible to update Wine to 0.9.4, and so I did. But now I get the following message, when I try to start Steam:
niels@nielslaptop:~$ cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam'
niels@nielslaptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam$ wine steam.exe err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} could be created for for context 0x1
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x0000000c at address 0x6a301c16 (thread 0020), starting debugger...
fixme:process:SetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,-1,-1): stub - harmless
WineDbg starting on pid 0x8
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000c in 32-bit code (0x6a301c16).
In 32 bit mode.
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:12af GS:0033
EIP:6a301c16 ESP:6939a9a8 EBP:6939a9b8 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:7beffc60 EBX:6a317520 ECX:00000000 EDX:00000000
ESI:6c0bd890 EDI:00000000
Stack dump:
0x6939a9a8: 6a311b90 6a317520 6c0bd890 00000003
0x6939a9b8: 6939a9d8 6a311bb8 6a2e0000 00000003
0x6939a9c8: 00000000 7bef41b0 6c0bd890 6a311b90
0x6939a9d8: 6939a9f8 7bebffe5 6a2e0000 00000003
0x6939a9e8: 00000000 00000000 00000000 7bef41b0
0x6939a9f8: 6939aa84 7bec0d9a 6a311b90 6a2e0000
0255: sel=12af base=6939c000 limit=00001fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>1 0x6a301c16 DllMain+0x1d6 in msvcrt (0x6a301c16)
2 0x6a311bb8 in msvcrt (+0x31bb8) (0x6a311bb8)
3 0x7bebffe5 call_dll_entry_point+0x15 in ntdll (0x7bebffe5)
4 0x7bec0d9a in ntdll (+0x20d9a) (0x7bec0d9a)
5 0x7bec14e9 LdrShutdownThread+0x99 in ntdll (0x7bec14e9)
6 0x7bedcdc5 RtlExitUserThread+0x15 in ntdll (0x7bedcdc5)
7 0x7fcf72e5 in kernel32 (+0x672e5) (0x7fcf72e5)
8 0x7fcf7a4d in kernel32 (+0x67a4d) (0x7fcf7a4d)
9 0x7bedd75f in ntdll (+0x3d75f) (0x7bedd75f)
10 0xb7efe361 start_thread+0x81 in libpthread.so.0 (0xb7efe361)
11 0xb7e92bde __clone+0x5e in libc.so.6 (0xb7e92bde)
0x6a301c16 DllMain+0x1d6 in msvcrt: movl 0xc(%edi),%esi
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (154 modules)
PE 0x00400000-00538000 Deferred steam
PE 0x10000000-1027f000 Deferred steamui
PE 0x30000000-30027000 Deferred nspr4
PE 0x55900000-55961000 Deferred msvcp60
PE 0x69a20000-69a2d000 Deferred jar50
PE 0x69a30000-69a3a000 Deferred cookie
PE 0x69b60000-69b68000 Deferred pipboot
PE 0x69b70000-69b90000 Deferred imglib2
PE 0x69ba0000-69de9000 Deferred gklayout
PE 0x69df0000-69e13000 Deferred gkgfxwin
PE 0x69e20000-69e37000 Deferred gkgfx
PE 0x69e40000-69e62000 Deferred gkwidget
PE 0x69e70000-69e7e000 Deferred webbrwsr
PE 0x69e80000-69ea7000 Deferred docshell
PE 0x69eb0000-69f6a000 Deferred uconv
PE 0x69f70000-69fa4000 Deferred gkparser
PE 0x69fb0000-69fc9000 Deferred rdf
PE 0x69fd0000-69fe0000 Deferred chrome
PE 0x69ff0000-6a004000 Deferred xpcom_compat
PE 0x6a010000-6a017000 Deferred xpcom_compat_c
PE 0x6a020000-6a02e000 Deferred profile
PE 0x6a030000-6a05d000 Deferred i18n
PE 0x6a060000-6a070000 Deferred mozz
PE 0x6a080000-6a0f6000 Deferred necko
PE 0x6a100000-6a10d000 Deferred xppref32
PE 0x6a110000-6a13e000 Deferred xpc3250
PE 0x6a140000-6a14f000 Deferred caps
PE 0x6a150000-6a1a6000 Deferred js3250
PE 0x6a1b0000-6a1ce000 Deferred embedcomponents
PE 0x6a1f0000-6a1f6000 Deferred plds4
PE 0x6a200000-6a207000 Deferred plc4
PE 0x6a210000-6a271000 Deferred xpcom_core
PE 0x6a280000-6a286000 Deferred xpcom
PE 0x6a290000-6a2c3000 Deferred mozctl
ELF 0x6a2d3000-6a333000 Export msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 0x6a2e0000-6a333000 \ msvcrt
ELF 0x6a333000-6a360000 Deferred shdocvw<elf>
\-PE 0x6a340000-6a360000 \ shdocvw
PE 0x6a360000-6a4ae000 Deferred serverbrowser
PE 0x6a4b0000-6a5a7000 Deferred friendsui
PE 0x6aa10000-6aa16000 Deferred mozctlx
ELF 0x6aa25000-6aa3e000 Deferred wsock32<elf>
\-PE 0x6aa30000-6aa3e000 \ wsock32
ELF 0x6afdd000-6b00d000 Deferred crypt32<elf>
\-PE 0x6aff0000-6b00d000 \ crypt32
ELF 0x6b00d000-6b040000 Deferred rsaenh<elf>
\-PE 0x6b020000-6b040000 \ rsaenh
PE 0x6b040000-6b10c000 Deferred steamclient
ELF 0x789b6000-789be000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 0x7be8c000-7bf00000 Export ntdll<elf>
\-PE 0x7bea0000-7bf00000 \ ntdll
ELF 0x7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 0x7caac000-7cac0000 Deferred msimg32<elf>
\-PE 0x7cab0000-7cac0000 \ msimg32
PE 0x7cac0000-7cb4d000 Deferred vgui2
PE 0x7cb50000-7cb88000 Deferred filesystem_steam
ELF 0x7cb8b000-7cba0000 Deferred psapi<elf>
\-PE 0x7cb90000-7cba0000 \ psapi
ELF 0x7cdde000-7ce20000 Deferred wineoss<elf>
\-PE 0x7cdf0000-7ce20000 \ wineoss
PE 0x7ce20000-7ce5e000 Deferred tier0_s
ELF 0x7d1a2000-7d1b7000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 0x7d1b0000-7d1b7000 \ midimap
ELF 0x7d657000-7d679000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 0x7d660000-7d679000 \ msacm32
ELF 0x7d679000-7d690000 Deferred msacm<elf>
\-PE 0x7d680000-7d690000 \ msacm
PE 0x7d690000-7d6cb000 Deferred vstdlib_s
ELF 0x7d6d7000-7d758000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 0x7d6e0000-7d758000 \ winmm
ELF 0x7d758000-7d76b000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 0x7d76b000-7d77f000 Deferred mswsock<elf>
\-PE 0x7d770000-7d77f000 \ mswsock
ELF 0x7d77f000-7d781000 Deferred iso8859-1.so
ELF 0x7daac000-7dadc000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 0x7dab0000-7dadc000 \ uxtheme
ELF 0x7dadc000-7db28000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF 0x7db28000-7db38000 Deferred libtasn1.so.2
ELF 0x7db38000-7db9a000 Deferred libgnutls.so.11
ELF 0x7db9a000-7dbb7000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 0x7dc09000-7dc12000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 0x7dc13000-7dc18000 Deferred libnss_dns.so.2
ELF 0x7dc20000-7dc3b000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 0x7dc30000-7dc3b000 \ imm32
ELF 0x7dc3b000-7dc57000 Deferred ximcp.so.2
ELF 0x7e559000-7e75c000 Deferred i915_dri.so
ELF 0x7e75c000-7e763000 Deferred libdrm.so.1
ELF 0x7e763000-7e7c9000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF 0x7e7c9000-7e7cd000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 0x7e7cd000-7e88d000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 0x7e88d000-7e89a000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 0x7e89a000-7e8b3000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 0x7e8b3000-7e8ba000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 0x7e8ba000-7e937000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 0x7e8d0000-7e937000 \ winex11
ELF 0x7e937000-7e956000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 0x7e956000-7e984000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 0x7e984000-7e998000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 0x7e998000-7ea02000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 0x7ea02000-7ea16000 Deferred oleacc<elf>
\-PE 0x7ea10000-7ea16000 \ oleacc
ELF 0x7ea16000-7ea2a000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ea20000-7ea2a000 \ lz32
ELF 0x7ea2a000-7ea42000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 0x7ea30000-7ea42000 \ version
ELF 0x7ea42000-7ea5b000 Deferred oledlg<elf>
\-PE 0x7ea50000-7ea5b000 \ oledlg
ELF 0x7ea5b000-7eae8000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ea70000-7eae8000 \ oleaut32
ELF 0x7eae8000-7eb97000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 0x7eaf0000-7eb97000 \ comctl32
ELF 0x7eb97000-7ebdb000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 0x7ebb0000-7ebdb000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 0x7ebdb000-7ec61000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ebf0000-7ec61000 \ ole32
ELF 0x7ec61000-7ecb6000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 0x7ec70000-7ecb6000 \ shlwapi
ELF 0x7ecb6000-7ed74000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ecd0000-7ed74000 \ shell32
ELF 0x7ed74000-7ee06000 Deferred comdlg32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ed80000-7ee06000 \ comdlg32
ELF 0x7ee06000-7ee2e000 Deferred winspool<elf>
\-PE 0x7ee10000-7ee2e000 \ winspool
ELF 0x7ef14000-7f814000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 0x7ef60000-7f814000 \ gdi32
ELF 0x7f814000-7f92d000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f830000-7f92d000 \ user32
ELF 0x7f92d000-7f969000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f940000-7f969000 \ advapi32
ELF 0x7f969000-7f987000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 0x7f970000-7f987000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 0x7f987000-7f9b0000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 0x7f990000-7f9b0000 \ ws2_32
ELF 0x7fac2000-7fac5000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 0x7fac5000-7fad0000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 0x7fad2000-7fad7000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 0x7fc74000-7fd70000 Export kernel32<elf>
\-PE 0x7fc90000-7fd70000 \ kernel32
ELF 0x7fe80000-7fe85000 Deferred libxxf86dga.so.1
ELF 0x7fe85000-7fe8f000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 0x7fe8f000-7fe98000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 0x7fe98000-7fead000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 0x7fead000-7feb6000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 0x7feb9000-7febd000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 0x7febd000-7fec1000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 0x7fec1000-7fec4000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 0x7fec7000-7fee9000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 0x7fee9000-7ffe0000 Deferred libwine_unicode.so.1
ELF 0xb7dc7000-b7dca000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 0xb7dca000-b7ef8000 Export libc.so.6
ELF 0xb7ef9000-b7f0b000 Export libpthread.so.0
ELF 0xb7f0b000-b7f25000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF 0xb7f25000-b7f27000 Deferred xlcutf8load.so.2
ELF 0xb7f36000-b7f4c000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe
00000024 0
00000021 0
00000020 0 <==
0000001f 0
0000001e 0
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
00000019 0
00000017 0
00000016 1
00000014 0
00000013 0
00000012 1
00000011 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000b 0
0000000a 0
00000009 0
WineDbg terminated on pid 0x8
niels@nielslaptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam$


Is it because I updated Wine? Got the advise to install another version of Steam, but got the message, that Steam was allready registered. Wat does that mean?

[zappa86]

thats the same error I have. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I have an AMD64 proc instead of a good ol' intel one. (even though i'm running ia32 linux).

[pharcyde]

thats the same error I have. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I have an AMD64 proc instead of a good ol' intel one. (even though i'm running ia32 linux).

This error is a known error and is due to a regression in the 0.9.4 wine code. It should be fixed in the next version of wine. Use 0.9.3 or search the forums for the patch to fix the 0.9.4 code.

[FizDev]

It halted all the time.
Does it does that to everyone? Because I too have this problem, the game seems to work alright for 5 seconds then halt, wait, wait, works, halt, etc. I'm running it under Wine 0.9.4 but I don't seem to have the other errors. Would it be possible that it halts because I have an ATI or? :confused:

[TrinitronX]

i've finally gotten steam to work under my cvswine installation, however, when I run CS:S from steam, it is really laggy and slow. I looked into the game's options menu, and saw that it was using a hardware mode of directX 8, but a software mode of directX 9. I have an ATI 9800pro with the proprietary drivers installed. fgl_glxgears works fine.

Is there anything I can do to either enable DirectX 9 support for my card, or force the game to run in DirectX 8 mode? (I've already tried passing CS:S the "-dxlevel 81" flag)

[niels]

This error is a known error and is due to a regression in the 0.9.4 wine code. It should be fixed in the next version of wine. Use 0.9.3 or search the forums for the patch to fix the 0.9.4 code.

Now Wine 0.9.5 is ready. And an update of Wine made it possible to starte Steam again. But it is still very slow, and halts all the time. And therefore it is impossible to use.
This is what my terminal writes when i run Steam:
niels@nielslaptop:~$ cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam'
niels@nielslaptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam$ wine steam.exe err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} could be created for for context 0x1
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:process:SetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,-1,-1): stub - harmless
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x6c0523b4 "?" wait timed out in thread 001d, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
fixme:process:SetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,-1,-1): stub - harmless


Does anyone know if the problem can be identified from this?

Another problem...
When I close Steam (using the 'close cross'), Wine-Systray keeps running. How do I close this (the terminal looks like described abowe - it's not possible to write anyting)?

[cb951303]

i've finally gotten steam to work under my cvswine installation, however, when I run CS:S from steam, it is really laggy and slow. I looked into the game's options menu, and saw that it was using a hardware mode of directX 8, but a software mode of directX 9. I have an ATI 9800pro with the proprietary drivers installed. fgl_glxgears works fine.

Is there anything I can do to either enable DirectX 9 support for my card, or force the game to run in DirectX 8 mode? (I've already tried passing CS:S the "-dxlevel 81" flag)
I have exactly the same problem
I also tried cedega 5.0.2 (commercial). it's the same thing but only with extra 5-10 fps
any solution ?

[Mr_Grieves]

The "freezing" issue is a known problem. I created a bug report for at winehq about this. The problem appear after a Steam platform update in late december.

Running off-line should fix the problem for you, if you're not playing online..

More info:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131

[Mr_Grieves]

The freezing/halting bug affects (as far as I know) <0.9.3 and 0.9.5.

Wine 0.9.4 and Steam causes a crash to desktop, but this is patchable, read more here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4128

I wonder if any users of other software than Wine are having the freezing issues with Steam?

To replicate the bug you just need to start Steam, not any game. After a minute or so Steam with freeze and become 100% unusable, then the freeze will release.. and so on.
About the freezing bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131

[Dark Damo]

I'm getting the same problem and it looks exactly like this

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=4438&d=1134413170

I know about the fonts but how can i transfer them over to my damn fonts thingy?

:(

[Mr_Grieves]

Download the font, then:


cp tahoma.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

[IsSuE]

i got a prob with steam too.
i tried it with cedega, i installed several games, but when i run the game i get an steam error which tells me "steam validation rejected" .
my key is 100% valid and no one else is using it.

[Dark Damo]

Download the font, then:

damo@OMG:~$ cp tahoma.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
cp: cannot stat `tahoma.ttf': No such file or directory

[Mr_Grieves]

i got a prob with steam too.
i tried it with cedega, i installed several games, but when i run the game i get an steam error which tells me "steam validation rejected" .
my key is 100% valid and no one else is using it.
Are you able to login? What happens if you run "Validate Steam/Game Cache" (right click on a game).

damo@OMG:~$ cp tahoma.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/
cp: cannot stat `tahoma.ttf': No such file or directory
Have you downloaded the font??? That command requires that you are in the same directory as the downloaded font.

[Dark Damo]

Where do i get the font from? BESIDES WINDOWS.

[Mr_Grieves]

Where do i get the font from? BESIDES WINDOWS.
The magical google fairy.

http://www.google.com

Want me to click for you? -Sarcasm- :p

Or perhaps a friend of yours can send it to you? Via e-mail? IRC? Etc.

[IsSuE]

strange thing, now i cant even run steam well. it locks up short after login.
i hate steam :/

[Mustard]

I haven't tried STEAM lately, but it was doing this lock up thing for me on Cedega as well. I can only imagine its harder for someone using just wine to fix it. On the Transgaming forums they were talking about it being a problem with a recent update of STEAM that broke third party projects like Cedega. Some people get the problem and others don't. I had it for a while, then it went away. I would suggest trying at another time, as it might be something to do with some announcement that STEAM is trying to load up at login (thats my untested theory anyway),

[Dark Damo]

Why cant those Linux nazi's get there **** into gear and make a Linux versionf FFS!

It would make it easier for us and they would have a few more people using their **** that they call software.

(I'm talking about steam not anyone who works on a linux or unix or freebsd of any kind)

I got the tahoma.ttf file. Where is my wine directory? i dont know how to navigate to it. :(

[Mustard]

Why cant those Linux nazi's get there **** into gear and make a Linux versionf FFS!

It would make it easier for us and they would have a few more people using their **** that they call software.

(I'm talking about steam not anyone who works on a linux or unix or freebsd of any kind)

I got the tahoma.ttf file. Where is my wine directory? i dont know how to navigate to it. :(

It's a hidden directory in your $HOME directory. Press ctrl + H when you open up nautilus to show hidden files/folders and look for the .wine directory.

[Dark Damo]

Thank you i will try that now ;)

It works thank you very much!

Steam gives me this error

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1836/steamerror5mr.jpg

[Mr_Grieves]

Thank you i will try that now ;)

It works thank you very much!

Steam gives me this error

The base rule of getting things to work is. If something is missing, find it and put in .wine/ in it's corrisponding "Windows" folder. :)

In this case:

1) Download the DLL. http://www.google.com or other way.
2) Write this in a terminal:

cp /path/to/the_files_name ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system

~ is always the path to your $HOME directory.

You will find alot of good information in my signature.

[Mr_Grieves]

I haven't tried STEAM lately, but it was doing this lock up thing for me on Cedega as well. I can only imagine its harder for someone using just wine to fix it. On the Transgaming forums they were talking about it being a problem with a recent update of STEAM that broke third party projects like Cedega. Some people get the problem and others don't. I had it for a while, then it went away. I would suggest trying at another time, as it might be something to do with some announcement that STEAM is trying to load up at login (thats my untested theory anyway),
Steam and Counter-Strike 1.6/HL2 and Wine has been working flawlessly for me since Valves update between the 22th and 23rd of December.
Troubleshooting is being done for Wine at: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131

We're at the moment waitng for info from Valve. I opened up a troubleticket with them.

[Dark Damo]

The dll is in the folder allready and it gives the error anyway. It didnt happen before i put the font in.

[Mr_Grieves]

The dll is in the folder allready and it gives the error anyway. It didnt happen before i put the font in.
That's because you came further in the loading of the game.
I recommend you search on you're error message on the web and winehq maillists.

[fellowcanadian]

Thank you i will try that now ;)

It works thank you very much!

Steam gives me this error

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1836/steamerror5mr.jpg

I managed to find this on the steam forums:
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=185&p_created=1093668755&p_sid=Ja4CY91i&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX 3Jvd19jbnQ9OTEmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9JnB fY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmc F9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1Db3VsZCBub3QgbG9hZCB tb2R1bGUgJ2Jpbi92Z3VpMi5kbGwn&p_li=&p_topview=1

[abowman]

I got steam to install using instructions from this site:
http://www.stgraber.org/?p=6

The only problem I'm having is low fps 15-30 in DOD and the game occassionally locking up.
I'm thinking it might have something to do with the audio settings in wine. Right now I can only get DOD to run using oss. I've tried using alsa, but DOD will only load as far as the splash screen and then freeze when the sound would ordinarily start.

[Sandlst]

@ Dark Damo-it gives me this error too, but only when I dont launch it from a terminal-did you try that? I am having the same Fonts problem you did too, but I have Tahoma.ttf located in /.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts perhaps you have to put it somewhere else as well? I noticed in the wineHQ guide to steam they have that
"3. Install tahoma.ttf from either a windows installation, or download from the net. Installation will vary with flavor of linux."
does this mean it also has to be installed somewhere else on the system?

*EDIT* cofirmed from linuX-gamers.net -

"Steam requires the tahoma.ttf font. It is included in the Microsoft core fonts package. The package name depends on the distribution. Alternatively google for tahoma.ttf, download it and put it into your X Server fonts directory. (usually /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype)" apparently the core fonts package in the repos doesnt have tahoma, unless it puts it in a different place than the other fonts...

*EDIT* I was using Dapper and for many reasons decided to go back to Breezy for now....font problem fixed automagically.....I kept my home directories so tahoma.ttf was in /.wine/windows/fonts - not sure why it refused to work under Dapper