How to debug steam based games

[Brock York]

Hey
I was wondering how/what is the best approach to debug steam games under
wine. If I launch the actual exe file in the steam folders of the game it
just just opens and runs steam
then killing the process I launched then actually launching the game. The
only way I've found to get any useful output is to launch steam itself from
the command line with the debugging options enabled there.
Is this the only way to get debugging information from steam games without
cracking them?
Thanks
Regards Brock