http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20736
--- Comment #40 from AJSB ajsb@vfemail.net 2009-11-25 19:14:18 --- OK, i'm going bananas with this....
The patch is really needed and you was right....just unzip file and copy it....only in Slackware isn't to /usr/lib/wine but to /usr/local/lib/wine....
If you do this , the installation no longer fails with error 53....but what i said previously continues to be true...it continues not launching game and saying that Steam needs be running when actually, it is running !