[Bug 31320] Steam fails to start, needs dwrite.dll.DWriteCreateFactory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31320

--- Comment #3 from Austin English  2012-07-25 12:47:12 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Easy workaround:
> > disable dwrite.dll in winecfg.
>
> Just found out that there is a Steam command line parameter: '-no-dwrite',
> which makes it possible to start Steam. No idea what does that option do.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd368038%28v=vs.85%2...

It is used for better font rendering (assuming it is fully implemented).