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 perfectly in Crossover > > 4.1 - since I don't think Steam is supported, this is not due to a > > special hack, and the failure in Steam therefore represents a serious > > regression in Wine. > > > > This, quite simply, will be a really cool app to get working again. > > Plus, we'll need it to try out Half Life 2 once you awesome Direct3D > > boys finish up your work :) > > > > So, where do we go about this? The installer demonstrating the error > > can be downloaded easily from http://www.steampowered.com/ - however, > > I'm not sure if it's plausible to run a regression analysis since there > > are no patches available against the direct crossover version of Wine. > > At this point, I'm not even sure which file has broken, although I do > > know that it's one we've had problems with in the past based off of IRC > > conversations. > > > > If anyone could follow up with more info, particularly about the > > specifics of the error, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it greatly. > Yet another update: > > I managed to play something(Ricochet and old Half life). Installations was > painless(IE6 is needed, builtin shdocvw with mozilla activex control doesn't > work). I have to set winver to win98 to make the IE6 control work. > > I downloaded hl and ricochet and played it(single player / server with no > other players). The graphics worked nice with OpenGL, no surprises here. The > problems I encountered were: > > *The games lock up on exit. No error message, wine-preloader just uses 100% > CPU time. > > *I got a stange error on the secound start. Wine crashed and showed a lot of > pthread_* functions. I can't reproduce the crash so no log. Sorry. > > *Gaming get unstable if I turn of the internet connection. Say, does Steam > download sounds & levels on demand during playing? The half-life folder's > size is only 13 MB compared to ~500MB to the old version's folder. > > *I can't get offline mode working. > > *The keyboard and window management problems reported yesterday > > Cheers, > Stefan >
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. Thanks, Scott Ritchie