steam not loading

[el_ricardo]

hello, been trying to get steam working in ubuntu with wine for about the millionth time (i want to get rid of my dependency on windows for gaming!) i thought i'd finally got it set up right, but now when i try to load steam, i get the updating window, fir about a second, then it vanishes, my cpu goes up 2 100%, and nothing happens. I've had it hanging on 27%, i got round that, and i've had the mozilla active-x problem, and i fixed that, though it only just started doing this after i installed the mozilla active-x control, plz help! the only output i get is this:

Code:

ricardo@ricardo-desktop:~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Valve$ WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine Steam err:dbghelpe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file ole32.dbg ("") err:dbghelpe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file oleaut32.dbg ("") err:dbghelpe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file rpcrt4.dbg ("") wine: Call from 0x7fc2e770 to unimplemented function dbghelp.dll.SymGetSymFromAddr64, aborting Shutting down. . . 300client callback thread error

and an error message in wine: ERROR: Steam.exe (main exception):win32 StructuredException at 7CFDB127: Attempt to read from virtual adress 0 without appropriate access rights

please help, i'm getting seriously fed up!

[bigtomrodney]

I've only had partial success with Steam in Wine. Try Frank's Corner for some tips. Also it may be of interest to you that Crossover Office is running a beta test at the moment - you can get a 60 day trial of Crossover. I have run HL2 and CS:S in it without much trouble. It also contains some launcher tools if they interest you.