http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27118
Summary: Dead Space 2 (Steam) activation.exe only crashes and does not activate the game Product: Wine Version: 1.3.19 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: zorael@gmail.com
Created an attachment (id=34581) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=34581) +seh +relay wine activation.exe (warning: 1Gb extracted)
Dead Space 2 was bought and downloaded via Steam, and is as such up-to-date as of 2011-05-10. The system is running Kubuntu 11.04 64-bit, with Wine 1.3.19 from the ubuntu-wine ppa (plus winepulse patches). While probably not relevant, the graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 580 and running the proprietary 270.41.06 driver.
When starting the game it automatically runs activation.exe to activate the game. However, the activator instantly crashes and only spawns a wine debugging session that soars to 100% CPU and never exits. The attached log is 1Gb when extracted, and that's only because I stopped the debugger there and hit Ctrl+C. It would likely have grown in size until the disk was full.
The game does not get activated and cannot be played.
This may be a duplicate of bug 25853, but the description of that bug lists executables that are not present in the Steam version.