Steam games wont start

kittens123 · Post by **kittens123** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:10 am

I have latest Wine on Ubuntu 11.10, and i want get my 3 Steam games running. The problem is that, i try to start a game, it says "Prepairing to start (game name)" and then it closes, game wont start. I would like to get Garry's Mod, Portal and Portal 2 working. I have ATI HD 4250 and i have installed drivers from Additional Drivers in Ubuntu. What i should do?

kittens123 · Post by **kittens123** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:53 am

Hey, now Portal starts fine and runs fine! IDK Why it wasnt starting before, but now it starts and runs. I have just 1 problem. How i can get sound working? Wine says selected driver is winealsa.drv. So how i can get sound working, for something reason when i run Portal from Steam, it makes all sound go away from my computer and i have to reboot to get sounds to the system back.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:53 am

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:10 AM, kittens123 <[email protected]> wrote:

I have latest Wine on Ubuntu 11.10, and i want get my 3 Steam games running. The problem is that, i try to start a
game, it says "Prepairing to start (game name)" and then it closes, game wont start. I would like to get Garry's Mod,
Portal and Portal 2 working. I have ATI HD 4250 and i have installed drivers from Additional Drivers in Ubuntu. What i
should do?

Consult the Applications Database for those games to see what folks
have had to do to get them running.

James

kittens123 · Post by **kittens123** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:40 am

Yes, the games work for them and now for me but i just wont have any sound and i saw that when i die or change level/map on Portal, it becomes extreme slow and laggy and i have to restart the game and i didnt find nothing about it on AppDB

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:44 pm

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:40 AM, kittens123 <[email protected]> wrote:

Yes, the games work for them and now for me but i just wont have any sound and i saw that when i die or change
level/map on Portal, it becomes extreme slow and laggy and i have to restart the game and i didnt find nothing about it
on AppDB

Please look at the sticky subject for Sound after Wine 1.3.25. If
that does not help please advise.

James

kittens123 · Post by **kittens123** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:29 pm

Yea, it wont work that sound thing, i edited that file to autospawn off and then i killed pulseaudio, but it starts always again and again.