Hello,
I've been having problems trying to run Steam games. The Steam itself takes up a lot of resources even when idle, for some reason, but the games run rather smoothly - in menu that is.
Most of the games I have on steam are multiplayer games, and as the topic title suggests, I can't ever get to play them due to problems on connection. When playing Men of War, the game freezes on connection screen (all players are ready, the game is fully loaded up, but then freezes) or on first frame of the battlefield.
When playing World of Battles, I connect to the server, select my army, but then all the buttons in main menu are grey, the fresh info about the game, which should show up in the main menu doesn't show up, again suggesting some sort of connection problem.
I've tried to install Warhammer II: Retribution, but "relic encountered error", and I could not even send back a bug report to them, again suggesting some sort of connection problem.
I have 1.3.28 version of wine, and am running it on Ubuntu 11.10.
I've tried running the game in pure wine, which had trouble running steam alone, then with winetricks providing all the Windows DLLs they could ever need and with PlayonLinux, but there's always been more or less the same problems.
When my computer had Windows, it could ran Steam and all its games just fine (including Warhammer: Retribution and Men of War), without any problems, so it's unlikely the problem lies outside of Wine.
Is there any way I could fix my problems? I realise some more info might be necessary, but I have no idea how to obtain it.
Connection problems with Steam games
Re: Connection problems with Steam games
That version is old and no longer supported here. Upgrade to the latest development release. Pick one game and install it to a clean wineprefix; if the AppDB has a howto, follow those instructions. If the game still doesn't work, post terminal output.Virtus wrote: I have 1.3.28 version of wine, and am running it on Ubuntu 11.10.
Ubuntu definitely has newer Wine packages; other people are using them. You probably need to add a repository. http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntuVirtus wrote:Well the problem is that is the latest Ubuntu compilation. To use the latest development release, I'd have to somehow compile it. No idea how.
No, it's not correct. That PPA definitely has wine1.5 packages: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppaVirtus wrote:I've uninstalled wine, and installed the beta version from your link. The beta version from your link claims to be "wine1.3 1.3.28-0ubuntu2~oneiric1", is this correct? Where can I see the terminal output?
I don't use Ubuntu, so I really can't help you with your package manager. Ask on the Ubuntu forum.
Okay, I've found a [ur=http://www.noobslab.com/2012/04/install ... untu.htmll]guide elsewhere[/url] and installed new wine.
I don't know how to clean my prefixes, or find installed steam and games so I can erase them. In windows I could right click on an icon and see where it's located, not so much in Wine, because the location can't be found. File search didn't find anything either.
Even with newest version of wine, 1.5.3, the games still meet the same errors. I have no idea how to display terminal output.
I don't know how to clean my prefixes, or find installed steam and games so I can erase them. In windows I could right click on an icon and see where it's located, not so much in Wine, because the location can't be found. File search didn't find anything either.
Even with newest version of wine, 1.5.3, the games still meet the same errors. I have no idea how to display terminal output.
If all this stuff goes over your head...Virtus wrote:Okay, I've found a [ur=http://www.noobslab.com/2012/04/install ... untu.htmll]guide elsewhere[/url] and installed new wine.
I don't know how to clean my prefixes, or find installed steam and games so I can erase them. In windows I could right click on an icon and see where it's located, not so much in Wine, because the location can't be found. File search didn't find anything either.
Even with newest version of wine, 1.5.3, the games still meet the same errors. I have no idea how to display terminal output.
Perhaps you should think about using Crossover till you have technical know how to come back to Wine when you have more advanced technical skills (good knowledge of PPAs, console commands, compilation from source, etc.). Wine debugging will not be at all easy for a new user...
Roll on the native Steam client...
Bob
