Steam won't launch any games

[TheRActivator]

I've been searching all over the internet for a fix. I am using Steam for Windows on Wine and when I try to launch any of my games it says that the game is running for a few seconds and then it stops. I am new to Linux and I was told that you could use steam for Windows to play games ... Of course, I was also told that you had to set up a lot of things yourself but I'm not sure what it is I have to do

Thanks in advance

[dimesio]

Yes, you can use Steam for Windows in Wine to run many games, but not all work. Since you haven't told us what game you're trying to run, what Wine version you're using, or posted any console output, I can't give you anything but generic advice: if you're not using the latest development release of Wine, upgrade, and check the AppDB for specific information on your game.

You might also want to read https://wiki.winehq.org/Forum_Posting_Guidelines.

[Bob Wya]

I've been searching all over the internet for a fix. I am using Steam for Windows on Wine and when I try to launch any of my games it says that the game is running for a few seconds and then it stops. I am new to Linux and I was told that you could use steam for Windows to play games ... Of course, I was also told that you had to set up a lot of things yourself but I'm not sure what it is I have to do

Thanks in advance

See the WineHQ: AppDB Steam Official Release page...

Some general tips for troubleshooting game launching under Steam:

• ensure you have the latest version of Wine installed - currently either Wine 2.6 or Wine Staging 2.6.
• disable the Steam Overlay: gameoverlayrender.dll (using winecfg)
• re-test your games with a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX set to Windows XP mode - see WineHQ FAQ: 6.5 Wineprefixes

...

Your post is little light on details (like what OS you are running, what version of wine, what games you tried to run, etc.) - so I can comment much further...
I'm guessing you're running Linux Mint or Ubuntu... Am I right??!!

Bob

[TheRActivator]

Oh sorry, here are some details:

Zorin OS 12 64 bit
Wine 2.6.0
I tried to play Rimworld, Factorio and Speedrunners

With speedrunners it kept saying I was "running" it, but no window popped up

With Rimworld it gave me this error:
"Failed to initialize Direct3D.
Make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed, have drivers for your
graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration
in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed"

With Factorio nothing happened

Also, the browser (store and community page) does not work, when I resize the window it doesnt update it immediately and the program isnt listed in the task bar.

[TheRActivator]

Right, so I did what it said on the AppDB page, and my games still dont play
The browser however works again.
And it shows steam in the task bar.
I even managed to open Binding of Isaac: Rebirth before it crashed (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40947)

[Bob Wya]

Okey dokey then...

What's the output from:

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sudo lspci -v | awk '{ gpu=(gpu || ($0 ~ "VGA ")) && ($0 !~ "^$"); if (gpu) print $0;}'
glxinfo | grep OpenGL

To get some information about your graphics setup...

Ta
Bob