Every steam game dies with "err:seh:raise_exception ..."

[Letharion]

Today I tried playing some games on steam (the windows version).

Games, such as Trine, that has worked just fine before, now simply refuses to start with:

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err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000096 flags 0 addr 0x7edd8a97

and that goes for _every single_ steam game I've tried, though the code and addr values change for some games, code c0000005 is also common.

I've created a new wine prefix and installed steam and a couple of games from scratch, exact same result.
Steam itself starts just fine though.

I assume it's something relatively easy since I know Trine, both 1 and 2, has worked great before, but the error message means nothing to me, so I can't work out what I've done wrong.

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$ wine --version
wine-1.5.31
$ uname -a
Linux samus 3.8.11-gentoo #1 SMP Fri May 3 13:14:59 CEST 2013 x86_64 AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Also, Trine 2 which is supported natively under Linux steam, works well when I don't run it under wine, so my graphics and other parts of the stack appear to work well.

I've tried re-installing wine, didn't help.

Any suggestions what so ever about where I should be looking for the problem?

[Letharion]

It could be related to steam doing some installation of directx prior to running the games. I'll try to investigate that further.

[dimesio]

You said it used to work "before." Before what? What has changed on your system? If this started with a Wine upgrade, does downgrading to the previous version fix it? If so, you need to run a regression test. If not--what else have you changed recently?