Steam Help

[winter821]

How do i use an application i installed through winetricks? PlayOnLinux gave me too much trouble, and i don't know how to use wine withut a gui, so i tried installing steam through Winetricks, and its in the 64 bit prefix, but i can't figure out how to launch it.

[Bob Wya]

@winter821,

Take a look at: WineHQ AppDB: Game Tools / Steam.

Ensure you have the latest development or staging version of Wine (version 3.12 currently).

RE: Winetricks you need to ensure you've installed steam with the Git Master version of winetricks.
I had a pull request open recently, which fixes some issues with the Steam client.

See: WineHQ Wiki: Winetricks.

Or fix this issue manually (on the command line):

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wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\Steam.exe" /v "Version" /t "REG_SZ" /d "winxp64" /f
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\steamwebhelper.exe" /v "Version" /t "REG_SZ" /d "winxp64" /f 

See: WineHQ FAQ: 6 Using Wine.

Generally to start Steam, in the default WINEPREFIX:

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# default WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.wine"
# ~/.wine/drive_c = Wine's Virtual Windows C:\ drive

cd ~/".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam"
wine Steam.exe -no-cef-sandbox

There's also a section on creating a Steam Client Launcher on the Steam WineHQ AppDB page.
I know it's quite detailed...
But the idea is that new Wine user's can get smarter...
Rather than just spoonfeeding them instructions!

Even with all these hacks, Steam is quite flaky when run under Wine. There are many open Wine bugs around Steam:

• Wine's system tray handling
• CEF sandboxing (sandboxing that the embedded Steam Webbrowser uses)
• Multimonitor support

Bob

[winter821]

I just found theres a launcher alongside the linux version of steam, but i get the same error as when i use play on linux. "content servers unreachable." also the store will not load. its not in offline mode.

[winter821]

I installed wine tricks from software center.

[Bob Wya]

I installed wine tricks from software center.

Then it will be a few months out-of-date... Looking @ Ubuntu Packages bionic (18.04LTS): winetricks.

Bob

[winter821]

Do i have to have version 18.04 or higher? my computer has 17.1 and i get an error when trying to update.

[Bob Wya]

Do i have to have version 18.04 or higher? my computer has 17.1 and i get an error when trying to update.

Well, yes actually... Since Ubuntu 17.10 has dropped out of support.

Bob