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gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

[SOLVED] Games won't load through Steam

I'm on 32bit and can't run any opengl games through steam recently,

I don't know whether its after the latest nvidia, steam or xorg upgrades, I just can't pin it down.

Running Day Of Defeat or Counter-Strike 1.6 I get:

wine client error:42: write: Bad file descriptor

...it freezes and fails to get to the game menu.

[SOLVED]
It's a recent steam update that breaks some games:
Bug 24096 -  08/19/2010 Steam client update breaks many games

[TEMP FIX 1]
Start Steam, then rename 'GameOverlayRenderer.dll' to something else, then start game.

[TEMP FIX 2]
Taking the above fix into account:
A rename script, so Steam doesn't download the .dll after every start.

#!/bin/bash
export WINEPREFIX=~/games/steam/.wine
cd ~/games/steam
wine Steam.exe &
sleep 4
mv GameOverlayRenderer.dll GameOverlayRenderer.dll.bak
wait
mv GameOverlayRenderer.dll.bak GameOverlayRenderer.dll

Last edited by gav616 (2010-08-31 19:43:47)

gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: [SOLVED] Games won't load through Steam

sorry failed to mention any details ,

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ | 2.6.35.3-1
nVidia GeForce 6200 | 256.44-2
xorg-server  1.8.1.902-1 | wine 1.3.1-3

gav616

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 182

Re: [SOLVED] Games won't load through Steam

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