http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6297
Summary: Half life 2 based games occasionally do not start due to registry in use Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P4 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: svdw@udel.edu
A lot of times I have to try to start games like Counterstrike: Source, Half life 2, Day of Defeat: Source multiple times because of this error:
SteamStartup() failed: SteamStarup(0xf,0x0034E064) failed with error 1: The registry is in use by another process, timeout expired.
I don't know what else would be using the registry, all I use is steam under wine at the moment.