Odd Steam problem, not all games are listed

[dswann]

Pretty new to archlinux and wine but regardless

x86_64 arch, KDE4Mod 4.2.1 with qt4.5.0.3, 1.1.16 wine-bin32-suse from the arch AUR with all of proper bin32 libs isntalled. I have no problems with Steam at all, Half Life 2 will properly run without any issues. My problem is that, not every game that I have on my windows install or that I have bought is showing up currently in My Games tab (not showing not installed, nothing)

Specfically, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2: which I found a user was sharing my same issue at the WineHQ Application database:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1554

But sadly there was no reply to his issue so I am at a lost on how to fix this.

Furthermore, if I create a symlink between my wine steam folder and my mounted Windows ntfs steam folder, the list of my games become a bit more populated but Left 4 Dead reamains missing and Team Fortress 2 has a status of pre-loaded and acts like I like I needed to purchase the game so that isn't going to work either


Help?

The Linux Wine Steam:



Steam under Windows Vista:



:/

I installed Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 on my Windows OS. I copied the files from my steamapps folder to my wine folder and still the Linux steam version does not list Left 4 Dead as a game and TF2 remains with the "Pre load complete" status and acts like I don't own the game.

[Nom]

That happens to me under Windows too, so you can't blame Wine on that one.

There seems to be some kind of client-server interaction happening when the launcher loads, and it can take quite a while for the games to show up.

[vitamin]

My problem is that, not every game that I have on my windows install or that I have bought is showing up currently in My Games tab (not showing not installed, nothing)

Close Steam.
Make sure it's really closed (run 'ps x' and verify there is no Wine running).
Remove "ClientRegistry.blob" file in your Steam directory.
Restart Steam and let it sit for a bit.

[dswann]

That happens to me under Windows too, so you can't blame Wine on that one.

There seems to be some kind of client-server interaction happening when the launcher loads, and it can take quite a while for the games to show up.

I have never had this problem exist under Windows. Even recently, I did a complete reinstall of Steam, and instantly after launching steam all games I have bought appeared on the "My Games" tab

I will atempt to delete the ClientRegistry.blob and let it set overnight to see if anything gets resolved

[dswann]

Okay I guess I can confirm this is not a Wine Issue but a general issue with my linux installation. A fresh installation of steam on both of my machines running Windows Vista result in Left 4 Dead and TF2 appearing fine.

However, I have a Windows XP virtual machine. I booted this inside my arch install with virtual box and installed a fresh copy of steam and behold Left 4 Dead and TF2 are missing

Where should I start to resolve this?

At first I thought it may be a firewall issue on my router configuration but I did not change any settings to allow either of the Windows Vista installations and they worked fine out of the box

[vitamin]

Where should I start to resolve this?

Contacting Valve's support. If you having this issue inside a virtual machine it has nothing todo with the host OS (nor Wine).

[dswann]

Where should I start to resolve this?

Contacting Valve's support. If you having this issue inside a virtual machine it has nothing todo with the host OS (nor Wine).

Nope, booting the same Virtual Machine of Windows XP with Virtualbox inside my Windows Vista install results in Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 properly showing up

The same virtual machine of Windows XP and Virtualbox under the arch install results in those games not showing up