Problem running any games with Steam

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:07 am

When ever I try to run FEAR 2 or Half-Life in Steam the "Preparing to launch" window comes up and then disappears. I assume every game I have will do this same thing, but it takes way to long to install anything in Steam.

Both games produce the following output in the terminal:

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err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0x1
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7edf8574
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd (nil)
err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x30114

I am using Wine v1.1.43, I have the most up to date Nvidia drivers, and have tried reinstalling them twice. I have also tried reinstalling Wine, Steam, FEAR 2 and Half-Life, but I still get the exact same errors.

Thank you in advance for any help.

System Specs:
OS: Gentoo(amd64)
CPU: AMD64 X2 6000+
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: Nvidia 8800GT 512MB

jchase520 · Post by **jchase520** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:54 am

Have you tried to update your Wine install to the latest (1.23 rc )

Cr0k · Post by **Cr0k** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:32 am

The latest version is not 1.2-rc3, rc4 is out since 4 days !

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:51 am

I haven't tried to that. Do i need to uninstall my current version of wine before installing the new one, or will it update the right files when I build it?[/code]

jchase520 · Post by **jchase520** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:56 am

http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

I reinstalled mine to be sure but you can try just running the update first , then go to configure wine and under about you'll see the version , the latest is 1.2 rc

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:01 pm

Got Wine updated to 1.2-rc4 and I am still getting the exact same errors.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:16 pm

ahakala wrote:When ever I try to run FEAR 2 or Half-Life in Steam the "Preparing to launch" window comes up and then disappears. I assume every game I have will do this same thing...

I am able to run Eversion and AudioSurf, so no, actually. Though I can't tell what the problem really is - and if it's local. Try (re)moving ~/.wine, then reinstall Steam and reddownload your game to see if it works with plain Wine at least.

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:26 pm

I'm not saying everyone has this problem, I am saying I can't run any games on Steam. I have tried reinstalling everything. I removed every trace of Wine from the computer and reinstalled it. I have all ready reinstalled Steam three times, and both games twice. I am currently trying to download some more games to test, but it is fairly slow unfortunately.

Andrew Mckinnon · Post by **Andrew Mckinnon** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:37 pm

Not sure what steam games you have tried but see if peggle extreme works. It is a free steam download. The link is in the steam forum as a sticky titled free steam games. It is also a fairly small download.

Andrew

On 2010-06-21, at 13:26, "ahakala" <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm not saying everyone has this problem, I am saying I can't run any games on Steam. I have tried reinstalling everything. I removed every trace of Wine from the computer and reinstalled it. I have all ready reinstalled Steam three times, and both games twice. I am currently trying to download some more games to test, but it is fairly slow unfortunately.

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:56 pm

Peggle Extreme gives the exact same errors as Half-Life and FEAR 2. I am downloading Portal right now, all though I am sure it will do the same thing.

dakiato · Post by **dakiato** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:06 pm

Turn off the in-game community features (Steam -> Settings -> In Game). Had the same problem as you and this worked like a charm

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:16 pm

dakiato wrote:Turn off the in-game community features (Steam -> Settings -> In Game). Had the same problem as you and this worked like a charm

Thank you, this solved it. Funny how it ends up being something so simple after reinstalling everything so many times.

dakiato · Post by **dakiato** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:16 pm

Turn off the in-game community features (Steam -> Settings -> In Game). Had the same problem as you and this worked like a charm

dakiato · Post by **dakiato** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:17 pm

ah sorry for double post

Glad to hear you solved the problem

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:15 pm

Of course one problem gets fixed and another one gets presented. At least it's only FEAR 2 that is broken now, after it launches and plays the WB Games and Monolith videos I get greeted by a wonderful black screen.

The errors are now:

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err:d3d_surface:surface_set_texture_name Surface has SFLAG_INTEXTURE set, but no texture name
err:d3d_surface:IWineD3DSurfaceImpl_ModifyLocation 0x50c8e418: Surface does not have any up to date location

This just gets repeated over and over again until I kill the process.

It will probably be easier to search the forums and google for the solution to this, but I figured I see if anyone thats helped so far knows how to resolve it.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:53 pm

ahakala wrote:

Of course one problem gets fixed and another one gets presented. At least it's only FEAR 2 that is broken now, after it launches and plays the WB Games and Monolith videos I get greeted by a wonderful black screen.

The errors are now:

Code:
err:d3d_surface:surface_set_texture_name Surface has SFLAG_INTEXTURE set, but no texture name
err:d3d_surface:IWineD3DSurfaceImpl_ModifyLocation 0x50c8e418: Surface does not have any up to date location

This just gets repeated over and over again until I kill the process.

It will probably be easier to search the forums and google for the solution to this, but I figured I see if anyone thats helped so far knows how to resolve it.

Maybe related to the a bug as described in bug report 22983 which
applies to a different Steam game.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22983

James McKenzie

ahakala · Post by **ahakala** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:29 pm

It's not a bug with wine from what I have found. It is an issue with the game since the majority of people that have this problem are using Windows. Still haven't had any luck finding a solution that works though.