[SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

Starfall · 2011-08-24 17:23:14

Hi

I've been having a bit of trouble with wine on my 64bit Arch installation.

I installed wine and winetricks (from multilib) and used winetricks to install steam.

Steam launches fine, however upon trying to run a game in my library, nothing happens, I get the dialogue box advising that it's preparing to launch the game, but then once thats gone, nothing happens.

I removed my ~/.wine folder and ran 'WINEARCH=win32 winecfg ' as advised to do so on wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine

However the issue persists. My main concern is that I've removed wine, winetricks and wine_gecko from my system using 'sudo pacman -Rdd <packagename>' and ensured that I deleted ~/.wine to try a re-install and perform the above command at the beginning, however, after re-installing all this, it seems steam has kept all my details? (perhaps in cache somewhere) So when I launch steam after a re-install, it already knows my login details and shows that Half Life 2 is already installed.

Sorry, I know the above is pretty messy, basically, I want a means to be able to eliminate wine and any wine content from my system completely, to be able to try and start over.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Last edited by Starfall (2011-08-25 23:43:41)

nrempel · 2011-08-24 18:32:18

If you use the winetricks installer, it installs the application into a different directory to be managed through winetricks.

Try removing the directory ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/Steam.

Earnestly · 2011-08-24 19:00:55

Note, I install all windows progams to "C:\" instead of "Program Files"

wget http://cdn.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi
mkdir -p ~/.wine_prefixes/Steam
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_prefixes/Steam wine wineboot
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_prefixes/Steam msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi

I'd recommend emulating a desktop at your native resolution to completely bypass any "Alt-Tab" issues with other programs running.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_prefixes/Steam winecfg

[Graphics] -> [x] Emulate a virtual desktop

Then go ahead and install your games. (Edit: If you've already installed the games, copy the "/steamapps/*.gcf" files and reinstall.)

Other tweaks I use with CS:S include these registry changes:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"UseGLSL"="disabled"
"Multisampling"="enabled"

Installing directX with winetricks will also net you better performance.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_prefixes/Steam winetricks d3dx9_43

Once you're happy with everything you can simply launch with: (-applaunch 220 is Half Life 2)

cd ~/.wine_prefixes/Steam/drive_c/Steam; WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_prefixes/Steam WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam -applaunch 220

If it fails, remove WINEDEBUG=-all and report the errors it spits into console.

Edit: Arch 64bit, wine1.3.26
Edit2: I like to keep winetricks at an arm's length for everything other than various dlls.

Last edited by Earnestly (2011-08-24 20:30:09)

Starfall · 2011-08-25 21:36:53

Thanks very much for all the help again Kaustic!

Turns out it all started functioning fine after I created the WINEARCH (32bit prefix) and then installed lib32-nvidia-utils!

I do have one question however, are there any means of ensuring wine picks up mouse-release properly? It's really damn irritating running around in HL2 with a freakin' mouse cursor constantly blinking in the middle!

Earnestly · 2011-08-25 22:45:45

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27779

I've never seen this before personally. Have you tried running it in a virtual desktop?

ps: I've never had to mess with WINEARCH in my life D:, guess I'm just lucky.

Last edited by Earnestly (2011-08-25 22:48:58)

Starfall · 2011-08-25 23:43:23

Lucky indeed!

Thanks for the link, I read through most of the comments, doesn't seem to be any fix on it as of yet, though a workaround was mentioned of running it in windowed mode, I'm happy with this, actually probably happier than I was before with full screen, it means I can interact with the rest of my system properly!

They do seems t be actively working on a fix for the bug though, so that's good, thanks again for your help Kaustic!

Arch Linux

#1 2011-08-24 17:23:14

[SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

#2 2011-08-24 18:32:18

Re: [SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

#3 2011-08-24 19:00:55

Re: [SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

#4 2011-08-25 21:36:53

Re: [SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

#5 2011-08-25 22:45:45

Re: [SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

#6 2011-08-25 23:43:23

Re: [SOLVED] Steam under wine x86_64 installation

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