That won't work. You need to start it in a separate console while you running the game. Wine kills all background programs when last GUI/CLI program exits. right. Here's the process I used: 1. start Steam client 2. run 'wine net start bits', which says the service is started successfully 3. launch ...

Hey folks, I noticed when trying to download mods via the in-game interface in Civilization V, hovering over the download button says Cannot download because Microsoft BITS has not been started From what I can tell wine has some sort of BITS implementation (?), so this should work. I tried running &...