Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-14 Thread Stefan =?iso-8859-15?q?D=F6singer?=
Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 22:13 schrieb Scott Ritchie: > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:56 -0500, Tim Schmidt wrote: > > Hey guys, sorry to intrude, but I've been out of the Windows gaming > > scene for longer than I can remember. I own copies of Half-life and a > > few other games, but am I to understa

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:56 -0500, Tim Schmidt wrote: > Hey guys, sorry to intrude, but I've been out of the Windows gaming > scene for longer than I can remember. I own copies of Half-life and a > few other games, but am I to understand that they can be played (for > free?) through steam? I see

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Tim Schmidt
Hey guys, sorry to intrude, but I've been out of the Windows gaming scene for longer than I can remember. I own copies of Half-life and a few other games, but am I to understand that they can be played (for free?) through steam? I see that you can purchase a few games through steam as well ( I re

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Stefan =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6singer?=
Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 11:13 schrieb Scott Ritchie: > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:47 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > > > Did you try the latest version? Did you install IE with Winetools? I > > > still can't get past my "no text visible" error that I linked to with a > > > screenshot earlier. > >

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:47 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > > Did you try the latest version? Did you install IE with Winetools? I > > still can't get past my "no text visible" error that I linked to with a > > screenshot earlier. > > I use Wine CVS from yesterday, steam updates itself automatic

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Stefan =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6singer?=
> Did you try the latest version? Did you install IE with Winetools? I > still can't get past my "no text visible" error that I linked to with a > screenshot earlier. I use Wine CVS from yesterday, steam updates itself automatically. I installed MSIE manually into a fresh wine installation. I

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:02 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Hello, > I forgot to cc this one to the list! > > Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a > > strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. > > > > What's interesting, however, is that Steam works

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-13 Thread Stefan =?iso-8859-15?q?D=F6singer?=
Hello, I forgot to cc this one to the list! > Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a > strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. > > What's interesting, however, is that Steam works perfectly in Crossover > 4.1 - since I don't think Steam is supported

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-08 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 12:41 schrieb Scott Ritchie: > Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a > strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. > > What's interesting, however, is that Steam works perfectly in Crossover > 4.1 - since I don't think Steam i

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-08 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 12:41 schrieb Scott Ritchie: > Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a > strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. Just an update to my mail sent 2 minutes ago: I downloaded steam, ran it with wine(cvs from 3/6/2005) and it W

Re: Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-08 Thread Stefan Dösinger
> Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a > strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. It would be great if steam worked with wine. I did some testing some time ago, and Steam seemed to work except of this problem. I used cvscedega to work around the

Let's fix Steam!

2005-03-08 Thread Scott Ritchie
Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark. What's interesting, however, is that Steam works perfectly in Crossover 4.1 - since I don't think Steam is supported, this is not due to a special hack, and the failure