http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31595
--- Comment #12 from kisak42@gmail.com 2012-09-05 13:34:33 CDT --- Okay, I removed ccache and created a new 32bit wine prefix, installed steam with msiexec /I ...steaminstaller.msi. Switched away from using system-wide wine at this point. I copied the common folder in steamapps, deleted ~/wine-git and ran: $ git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git/ $ cd ~/wine-git && ./configure $ make depend $ make CFLAGS+="-mstackrealign -mincoming-stack-boundary=2" CXXFLAGS+="-mstackrealign -mincoming-stack-boundary=2" -> switched to the testing terminal and ran: $ env WINEPREFIX="/home/kisak/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/UT3_testing" WINEDEBUG=+tid,+mmdevapi,+winmm,+driver,+midi,+dsound,+dsound3d,+dmusic,+mci,+oss,+alsa,+coreaudio ~/wine-git/wine /home/kisak/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/UT3_testing/dosdevices/c:/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe -no-dwrite
The only involvement Playonlinux has done with this wineprefix is the few mouse clicks to make a 32bit wineprefix, no hidden winetricks in the background.
Told steam to install UT3, it detected the pre-existing files, told steam to launch UT3, rejected all the one-time installers, UT tried to launch and stopped rendering on the screen (transparent). I killed UT3 remotely, steam wouldn't give me the option of trying to re-run the one-time installers, so I nuked the wineprefix and repeated, this time allowing the four one-time installers run, and we're back to the same unhandled exception.
As an aside, the "-m32" switch at configure-time seems unusual to me. Wine's build system should take care of that kind of thing for you. I'm wary of overriding Wine's build system without a reason for it.
This is directly from instructions given to me via http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting If this is not the intended instructions, then the wiki needs to be updated for those who actually read the details.
I hope this is a sufficiently clean environment to continue. Because this is a fresh wineprefix, it is pointing to system default for audio, which is the alsa loopback device.