Running Steam with Wine

fourwood · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 197

Has anyone managed to get this to work? The install works fine, but when I run Steam.exe, it says it fails to load the library Steam.dll, which happens to be in the same directory as the executable. Anyone know of a workaround for this?

Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

I have never heard of this game. Where can you get it? Is it free? Can you post a link?

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trajedi · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Dallas

steam is what you use to d/l CS 1.6 and such right.?

mudfly · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 12:42 am Post subject:

Steam is the new content and authentication engine from Valve software.
http://www.steampowered.com

Sorry I don't have wine installed so I can't tell you what is going on.

Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

hmm.. too bad I am not likely to try it.. I am on dial-up only

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Panick007 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 95

Just FYI there is a Linux version of Steam too. I think it's only for the dedicated HL server though.

fourwood · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 197

Malek · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject:

Bluntly put, no, it does not work.

As for the rest of you, Steam is the new online "authorization" system that allows people to connect to Half Life (and HL2 when it comes out) games online hence replacing the WON ID system. It is crap. Bluntly put. I haven't had any luck getting this to work via Wine or WineX however I have brought it up for a vote on WineX and at this time I still need 3 people to back me up.

The Beta version did work at one point in time a while back by merely putting in a few DLLs and setting them to native, unfortunately this... "non beta release" (probably meant alpha and not final. HA.) rare works... (see below)

Funny thing is however, that a majority of people who are using this new "improved system" can barely get it to work on Windows too (mainly because it crashes alot, redownloads your entire Half Life folder, causes certain mods to crash upon entry, uses alot of net activity for non net required items (yes, you need Steam authenticity to run a friggin LAN or Single Player game.)

So in conclusion: will it work in Linux? No. Will it work in Windows? Toss a coin, heads - it'll work.

Wedge_ · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject:

It sounds like great fun for us unlucky people on 56k. And authenticating local or single player games is just a piece of shit. I wasn't planning to play online anyway, but apparently I have to install the bloody thing just to play the sp game. Wonderful :evil:

Valve should concentrate on making games instead of wasting time with this kind of thing.
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gregcoit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

no doubt steam is a load of crap - but we will have to get it to work if we want to play cs 1.6 or 2.0.

I added my vote for steam on transgamings site - 2 more needed.....
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lblblb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 75

What cracks me up is that valve has never actually had a successful steam deployment. It's their new authentication and delivery mechanism, but it doesn't work. The servers get overloaded every time, the application only sometimes works for windows users....

It doesn't even work, but they're forcing it down our throats. bleh. And with an attitude of "screw all non-windoze users".

I have lived off of Counter-Strike that last 2 years for r&r. But now.... Valve sux. No more CS for me. And I'm not buying HL2. It's garbage now -- all of it. I'm not going to waste my time trying to get Valve's (HL) game to work on my boss system, when there are some other pretty-dang-good counter-terrorism games out there that will run native on my OS.

...and Steam authentication for LAN games?? come on.

Valve may not miss my $50, but they will miss the $50 x 5000+ linux users who say "screw this".

And I'm not going to buy it for windows either.

Cheers

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slavetocaffeine · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 36

I'd really like to try tac ops, but i can't find a copy of the original UT anywhere...

trajedi · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Dallas

there is a steam for linux if anyone cares.. and UT for tac op's play's perfect for me been playin' it on nix since 1.6..

trajedi · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Dallas

slavetocaffeine · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 36

that steam for linux is only for the dedicated server

Polden · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 8

Steam starts fine here, with a out of the box installation of Wine.
My first problem though was no text, fixed it by copying my dads Fonts directory from his WinXP installation..
Now the only problem i have is that Steam cant connect with any Steam Servers..
Network and everything works perfectly, because i can connect to irc with mIRC!
Any ideas to that?

fizz · Guru Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 309 Location: Florida

I ran across this, although i havent tested it, seems to work for other people that pointed me to this.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17
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GenKreton · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:10 am Post subject:

hmm I may try this. I used to like counter-strike and natural selection, then valve got gayer than they were...Too many of my friends still play to ignore it completely though and since they have 10 of my precious dollars already I may as well use it.

NitroPye · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:37 am Post subject:

Steam is riddled with DRM styled crap, It is going to be a pain to get to work. I wouldnt be suprised at all if tried to come up with a way to see if it was being emulated in linux or something in the near future and locked you out with an ambiguous error.
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blue.sca · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:21 am Post subject:

i used this how-to, but i cant get it to work, something im missing, i did exactly what i was told to do (i found the forum discussion afterwards this how-to was created), but it just does not connect to steam network. but, according to the forums, it generally works.
if someone could managed to play, could he please wirte down the steps from a installed-from-scratch wine? i have no idea anymore...

probably, if someone gets this to run, the joy will only last till april next year, when steam latest becomes pay2play

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

blue.sca · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:06 am Post subject:

ok, i cant prove it, but i can make my thoughts. valve said definitivly before cs1.6 was released, there will be a non-Steam-Client, they broke, Valve said definitivly they will bring HL2 this year, they broke (and not only to the reason of source code leaking)
i mean, why the hell wouldn't a company take advantage of their systems? why dont they want to make money? they have a really high amount of payment for steam, just calculate traffic, space, support. why shouldnt they force the players to pay for their system, whne there are, i dont know, 500.000 people playing the game? if only 10% will pay, perhaps 10$ per month like any online RPG, that would be 500.000 thousand dollars a month... no company would reject this only for patience...

anyways, they can use this money for making cs more professional (and a natve linux client

), then i will pay, but im at first interessted in getting it to work with wine.

slavetocaffeine · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 36

I have steam working...

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=17
Thanks to that

jaska · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:

Well atleast they cracked it to work with wine. Annoying Valve wankers...