Can't get Half Life 2 going!

[andrewwalker27]

I'm having an absolute nightmare trying to get Half Life 2 going on Gentoo. My spec is as follows:
Gentoo ~x86_64
nvidia-drivers-100.14.19
wine-0.9.48
gentoo-sources-2.6.23

Steam has successfully downloaded the game to my machine but every time I try to run it, I get the steam screen come up with the header Updating Half-Life 2 preparing to launch Half-Life 2 and an error box from wine with the following,

Steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 7A3CDF8D:
Attempt to read from virtual address 68 without appropriate access rights.

Then steam dies.
I've tried in a console

env WINEPREFIX="/home/fred/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 220

and the output I get is shutting down and a number that increases before the crash and this output

client callback thread error
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithDataSegs
fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open

Can anyone tell me what is going on, I've trawled the web for hours but still can't find the problem, has anyone got it going with a similar spec? I've tried downloading older wine versions but the result is the same, however, many people are claiming it works.

There is a steam log file but all it says is

CsComm Session Oct-30-2007 23:15:04.736 [16] ReconnectThread (16) Starting
CsComm Session Oct-30-2007 23:15:51.865 [16] ReconnectThread (16) Told to exit

[eyoung100]

In order for Half Life 2 to run in Windows, you must have Administrator rights. In XP, this was easy, as every user created had admin rights by default, unless you disabled Fast User Switching. When the game starts rights are checked. In Windows you get a nice error box that says you need Administrative rights. In Wine, you get an abnormal exit. I don't know if this is fixed in Cedega, but I know it will not work in Wine, because you can never run Wine as Root. You may want to check at Transgaming, Cedega, the paid version of Wine.
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[andrewwalker27]

I'm not saying you're wrong but the wine site actually lists half life 2 as working at silver rated and steam itself at gold rated
see this link
http://appdb.winehq.org/

I'm pretty sure they're referring to wine and not codeweavers but I could be wrong, what do you think?

[downer]

I get this exact same error when trying to launch Half-Life 1.
Searched around a bit and found some old threads on linux-gamers.net where they have the same problem with cedega also: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1791&forum=41&post_id=8865#forumpost8865
No solution though.

I'll keep looking.

//D
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[Schizoid]

I have Steam working fine with wine 0.9.48. You do not need Cedega.

Now if I could just get Steam games not to lock up shortly after I start playing. . .

[downer]

[PeterH]

There is a bug with wine 0.9.48 that made half-life 2 and hl2 based games crash when loading.
This is fixed in wine 0.9.49.

[andrewwalker27]

If only that was true!

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000022 at address 0xd498a37 (thread 0034), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x00000022 in 32-bit code (0x0d498a37).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:0d498a37 ESP:0034e574 EBP:00000004 EFLAGS:00010216( - 00 -RIAP1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:07350070 ECX:0d4aa9d0 EDX:0d4a67b8
ESI:00000700 EDI:0d4aa9d0
Stack dump:
0x0034e574: 00000090 0d4aa9d0 00000004 006a07f4
0x0034e584: 0d499d32 07350070 00000730 23360074
0x0034e594: 0d4aa9d0 006a07f4 0d49a084 23360074
0x0034e5a4: 00000730 23360074 0d4aa9f0 0d4aa9d0
0x0034e5b4: 0d4986ca 23360074 ffffffff 0034e60c
0x0034e5c4: 00000008 0034ff08 00000000 100070bb
Backtrace:
=>1 0x0d498a37 in datacache (+0x8a37) (0x00000004)
2 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x0d498a37: addw $0xffff,0x22(%eax)
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (147 modules)
PE 350000- 384000 Deferred tier0
PE 390000- 3b0000 Deferred vstdlib
PE 3b0000- 3e6000 Deferred filesystem_steam
PE 3f0000- 400000 Deferred steam_api
PE 400000- 41c000 Deferred hl2
PE cf50000- cf5e000 Deferred unicode
PE d1c0000- d298000 Deferred datamodel
PE d3b0000- d3d9000 Deferred dmserializers
PE d3e0000- d485000 Deferred materialsystem
PE d490000- d4b1000 Export datacache
PE d4c0000- d4d5000 Deferred valve_avi
PE d5f0000- d6b4000 Deferred vguimatsurface
PE d6c0000- d727000 Deferred vgui2
PE d730000- d75f000 Deferred soundemittersystem
PE da90000- dab8000 Deferred stdshader_dbg
PE dac0000- daf3000 Deferred stdshader_dx6
PE e6a0000- e85d000 Deferred steamclient
PE e860000- e89f000 Deferred tier0_s
PE e8b0000- e8ed000 Deferred vstdlib_s
PE ea10000- ea3e000 Deferred nattypeprobe
PE ea40000- ecdd000 Deferred p2pcore
PE ece0000- ee38000 Deferred p2pvoice
PE ef50000- f10d000 Deferred gameui
PE 10000000-1002e000 Deferred launcher
PE 1caa0000-1cab0000 Deferred vaudio_miles
PE 1cab0000-1cb14000 Deferred mss32
PE 1e170000-1e284000 Deferred serverbrowser
PE 20000000-2064b000 Deferred engine
PE 21100000-211ad000 Deferred mss32_s
PE 22000000-2263d000 Deferred server
PE 24000000-24388000 Deferred client
PE 26000000-26126000 Deferred vphysics
PE 26400000-26439000 Deferred mssvoice.asi
PE 26f00000-26f2e000 Deferred mssmp3.asi
PE 2a000000-2a09f000 Deferred shaderapidx9
PE 2c000000-2c2d8000 Deferred studiorender
PE 30000000-30320000 Deferred steam
PE 60000000-60021000 Deferred cserhelper
PE 628c0000-628d9000 Deferred parsifal
ELF 79fa0000-79fa9000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7bf56000-7bfa0000 Deferred dbghelp<elf>
\-PE 7bf60000-7bfa0000 \ dbghelp
ELF 7bfa0000-7bfeb000 Deferred dsound<elf>
\-PE 7bfb0000-7bfeb000 \ dsound
ELF 7bfeb000-7c000000 Deferred winejoystick<elf>
\-PE 7bff0000-7c000000 \ winejoystick
ELF 7c2ae000-7c2d4000 Deferred netapi32<elf>
\-PE 7c2c0000-7c2d4000 \ netapi32
ELF 7c2d4000-7c2fc000 Deferred secur32<elf>
\-PE 7c2e0000-7c2fc000 \ secur32
ELF 7c2fc000-7c312000 Deferred psapi<elf>
\-PE 7c300000-7c312000 \ psapi
ELF 7c720000-7c806000 Deferred wined3d<elf>
\-PE 7c730000-7c806000 \ wined3d
ELF 7c806000-7c835000 Deferred d3d9<elf>
\-PE 7c810000-7c835000 \ d3d9
ELF 7c835000-7c857000 Deferred mpr<elf>
\-PE 7c840000-7c857000 \ mpr
ELF 7c857000-7c8a3000 Deferred wininet<elf>
\-PE 7c860000-7c8a3000 \ wininet
ELF 7c8a3000-7c943000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7c8c0000-7c943000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7c943000-7c959000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 7c950000-7c959000 \ midimap
ELF 7c959000-7c972000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7c960000-7c972000 \ msacm32
ELF 7c972000-7c9af000 Deferred wineoss<elf>
\-PE 7c980000-7c9af000 \ wineoss
ELF 7c9af000-7c9d7000 Deferred msvfw32<elf>
\-PE 7c9c0000-7c9d7000 \ msvfw32
ELF 7c9d7000-7ca66000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7c9e0000-7ca66000 \ winmm
ELF 7ca66000-7ca8e000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7ca70000-7ca8e000 \ msacm32
ELF 7ca8e000-7cac9000 Deferred avifil32<elf>
\-PE 7caa0000-7cac9000 \ avifil32
ELF 7cbfe000-7cc57000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7cc10000-7cc57000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7cc57000-7ccf8000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7cc70000-7ccf8000 \ ole32
ELF 7cd54000-7cd87000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7cd60000-7cd87000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7cd87000-7ce46000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7cd90000-7ce46000 \ comctl32
ELF 7ce46000-7cf48000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7ce60000-7cf48000 \ shell32
ELF 7cf48000-7cfa1000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7cf60000-7cfa1000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7cfa1000-7cfb6000 Deferred mswsock<elf>
\-PE 7cfb0000-7cfb6000 \ mswsock
ELF 7cfb6000-7cfcb000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7cfc0000-7cfcb000 \ lz32
ELF 7cfcb000-7cfdd000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7cfea000-7d004000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7cff0000-7d004000 \ version
ELF 7d2bc000-7d2db000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7d2c0000-7d2db000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7d2db000-7d308000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 7d2e0000-7d308000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7d308000-7d323000 Deferred wsock32<elf>
\-PE 7d310000-7d323000 \ wsock32
ELF 7d323000-7d326000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7d326000-7d32f000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7d32f000-7d34d000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7d340000-7d34d000 \ imm32
ELF 7dde8000-7e780000 Deferred libglcore.so.1
ELF 7e780000-7e816000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF 7e816000-7e81b000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e81b000-7e81e000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e81e000-7e909000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e909000-7e917000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e917000-7e92e000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e92e000-7e937000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e93c000-7e93f000 Deferred iso8859-1.so
ELF 7e940000-7e945000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e945000-7e948000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e948000-7e94c000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e94c000-7e954000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e95e000-7e9f0000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e970000-7e9f0000 \ winex11
ELF 7ea9d000-7eac7000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7eac7000-7eacc000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7eaee000-7eb53000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7eb5b000-7eb7a000 Deferred libexpat.so.0
ELF 7eb7a000-7ebc7000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7eb90000-7ebc7000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ebc7000-7ec5f000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ebe0000-7ec5f000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ec5f000-7ed9c000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ec80000-7ed9c000 \ user32
ELF 7edd2000-7eefb000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7edf0000-7eefb000 \ kernel32
ELF 7eefb000-7ef12000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ef12000-7ef38000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7ef38000-7ef3a000 Deferred libnvidia-tls.so.1
ELF 7ef46000-7ef58000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7ef5f000-7f000000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7ef70000-7f000000 \ ntdll
ELF f7c94000-f7c9e000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF f7ca0000-f7ca4000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f7ca4000-f7dd9000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF f7dd9000-f7df1000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f7df6000-f7e00000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF f7e10000-f7e18000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF f7e18000-f7f2c000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF f7f2d000-f7f4a000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000002e (D) C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\frednet\half-life 2\hl2.exe
00000046 0
00000023 0
00000047 0
00000025 0
00000038 0
0000002f 2
00000034 0 <==
0000000a
0000000b 0
00000008
00000037 1
00000028 1
00000045 0
00000044 0
00000043 1
00000042 0
00000041 1
00000040 0
0000003f 1
0000003e 0
0000003d 1
0000003c 0
0000003b 1
0000003a 0
00000039 1
00000033 0
00000032 0
00000031 0
00000030 0
0000002d 0
0000002c 0
0000002b 1
0000002a 0
00000029 0
00000027 0
00000026 1
00000024 0
00000022 0
00000021 15
00000020 15
0000001c 15
00000019 0
00000018 0
00000017 0
00000016 0
00000015 0
00000014 1
00000013 0
00000012 0
00000011 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000c 0
00000009 0
client callback thread error
client callback thread error

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, however steam seems to work a lot better now. I'm running wine-0.9.49 on Gentoo ~x86_64 so it could be a 32-bit emulation problem.

[downer]

Also 0.9.48 works fine for Schizoid, so I don't think that is the problem:

[ChrisJumper]

I own cedega, and Half-Life Episode one.

In the beginning of July this year Valve/Steam stop the support for Win98 Systems! And after an Update steam stops Working in Win98 Mode. Now i can't launch the game even with cedega. And if i start in Win2k-Mode i get the same Error-Message.

What i want to say: It say nothing if it rate gold with wine. I think the problems are the same. And you could just wait for an Update of Wine/Cedegan. To re-Play Half-Life2.

Regards Chris

[sirdilznik]

[FallenWizard]

Deactivating Steam-Community ingame should fix it.

Start Steam, go to File/Settings, In-Game and uncheck 'Enable Steam Community in-game".

[bltngshp]

[Schizoid]

CS Source crashes for me if there is anyone else on the server. If I am in an empty server I can run around shooting all day, but if I join a server with some one else playing it locks up as soon as some one fires a gun (at least that is how it seems).

[ChrisJumper]

Just to add the cedega: Update

Since the cedega 6.0.4 beta, HL Episode 1 & 2, Portal, TF2 will work again.

Regards Chris

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