Steam game activation problem

[jamesr652]

I'm running Wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. When I go to activate a game in Steam, it doesn't do anything with the "Activating key with Steam..." progress bar and times out with the Steam error:

Steam server is unavailable

Your computer is either currently unable to reach the Steam servers, or the service may be temporarily disabled. Please try again later.

It's been like this for every game I own. Even games I bought through Steam.

A search for this issue didn't come up with anything related. Has anyone else had this issue?

I'm dual booting with Vista and it works OK on that side. I'd leave Vista for good if I could play a couple of my games under Linux. Thanks for all the hard work you guys put into Wine.

-James

[rautamiekka]

Unless you've made edits to your Ubuntu you can't remember, update Ubuntu and/or WINE.

EDIT PS. v1.0.1 is the Stable Have you tried running most-newest WINE, the v1.1.17 ?

[vitamin]

I'm running Wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04.

Upgrade. You need wine_gecko and it's not available for such old Wine version anymore.

[jamesr652]

Ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.1.17 still have the same issue. Nothing unusual appears when I run it through the terminal. No fixmes or anything appear during authentication. It just times out.

[vitamin]

Ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.1.17 still have the same issue. Nothing unusual appears when I run it through the terminal. No fixmes or anything appear during authentication. It just times out.

Have you removed/renamed ~/.wind directory and reinstalled Steam?

[jamesr652]

Have you removed/renamed ~/.wind directory and reinstalled Steam?

Yes I completely removed Steam and the older version of Wine. I downloaded the latest version of Steam from their website as well.

After Steam failed once, I tried deleting the ClientRegistry.blob and restarting/ I saw this worked for unrelated issues. That didn't work either.

This may just have to go unresolved for now.