On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:02 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Hello, I forgot to cc this one to the list!
Steam has had a serious problem for quite some time, failing with a strange debug assertion error popup at the dreaded 27% mark.
What's interesting, however, is that Steam works perfectly in Crossover 4.1 - since I don't think Steam is supported, this is not due to a special hack, and the failure in Steam therefore represents a serious regression in Wine.
This, quite simply, will be a really cool app to get working again. Plus, we'll need it to try out Half Life 2 once you awesome Direct3D boys finish up your work :)
So, where do we go about this? The installer demonstrating the error can be downloaded easily from http://www.steampowered.com/ - however, I'm not sure if it's plausible to run a regression analysis since there are no patches available against the direct crossover version of Wine. At this point, I'm not even sure which file has broken, although I do know that it's one we've had problems with in the past based off of IRC conversations.
If anyone could follow up with more info, particularly about the specifics of the error, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it greatly.
Yet another update:
I managed to play something(Ricochet and old Half life). Installations was painless(IE6 is needed, builtin shdocvw with mozilla activex control doesn't work). I have to set winver to win98 to make the IE6 control work.
I downloaded hl and ricochet and played it(single player / server with no other players). The graphics worked nice with OpenGL, no surprises here. The problems I encountered were:
*The games lock up on exit. No error message, wine-preloader just uses 100% CPU time.
*I got a stange error on the secound start. Wine crashed and showed a lot of pthread_* functions. I can't reproduce the crash so no log. Sorry.
*Gaming get unstable if I turn of the internet connection. Say, does Steam download sounds & levels on demand during playing? The half-life folder's size is only 13 MB compared to ~500MB to the old version's folder.
*I can't get offline mode working.
*The keyboard and window management problems reported yesterday
Cheers, Stefan
Did you try the latest version? Did you install IE with Winetools? I still can't get past my "no text visible" error that I linked to with a screenshot earlier.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie