http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31374
--- Comment #45 from Bruno Jesus 00cpxxx@gmail.com 2012-10-30 13:54:27 CDT --- (In reply to comment #44)
Obviously Steam is a very popular application among Wine gamers.
This bug has been open 3 months now and spanned 6 releases, so Wine developers are not in a haste to apply a proper fix for the problem. Until that happens, why not just revert the dwrite patch that caused the regression in the first place?
Nikolay has been working in dwrite as you can see: http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/history/HEAD:/dlls/dwrite