I've been playing Counter Strike Source in Wine on and off for several years. It was working recently and for whatever reason stopped working as I was using maybe version 1.3, now I'm on version 1.3.2, although I don't think the problem is version related. At some point I guess something the configuration changed or got corrupted. I started over with a new .wine directory and it hasn't helped. I am able to launch CSS and load a server, but after I join, get the message of the day, and click "okay" it crashes to the desktop. I've tried every combination of configuration options, I suppose it might be related to which libraries are installed as native. Any ideas?

If you're using wine 1.2 or earlier, this may be fixed with wine 1.3, as a steam update caused many source games to crash around August 19, 2010 in 1.2 and earlier versions of wine.

If not, I'm pretty sure your problem is related to GameOverlayRenderer.dll, which is found in .wine/drive c/Program Files/Steam.

All you have to do is go to winecfg-->libraries tab and in the box type "gameoverlayrenderer.dll, "Add" then "Edit" then select "Disable." Let us know which one of these, if either, works for you.

I've been using 1.3+, but I did end up disabling gameoverlayrenderer.dll and it worked, so thank you very much for your reply Hopefully other people can benefit from this information.

In an unrelated note I reinstalled wine from scratch and now whenever I install directx and other some libraries they do not appear in winecfg.

On 9/11/10 6:36 PM, juanbobo wrote:
Unless you ABSOLUTELY need DirectX, do NOT install it. If you DO, use
winetricks.

James McKenzie

Using DirectX hasn't been a problem, I noticed some graphical glitches with the built-in drivers and I wanted to see if they existed with the native drivers. It's not really a DirectX issue, I've had it all set up before but for whatever reason winecfg is not showing installed libraries.

Okay, I thought winecfg would detect installed dlls automatically but I forgot that I did use winetricks to register the dlls previously, so that was the problem, thanks for your response;)