Steam with wine or winex

DopeGhoti · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: Steam with wine or winex

I'm trying to wean myself away from Windows, and the main last bastion of my Windows usage is games, such as Half-Life.

I'd really like to get the Steam client working through wine or winex, and I"m awfully close-

I have it installed, but when I try to log in, it tells me that it's unable to contact the Steam network.

Has anyone else had this problem and been able to solve it?

I've googled for it, and tried searching the Forums here and elsewhere, and while I did get a lot of assistance from such searches in getting as far as I have, I'm still stuck at logging in

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Uranus · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

Same here. I've been trying for months (with every single wine/winex version that came out since). With some versions I couldn't install IE, or HL, or Steam. Now I just can't login to the steam network

DopeGhoti · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:23 pm Post subject:

So we're not alone in our suffering!

I also know it can work as I've seen screenshots of people playing TFC in a KDE window

A thousand thank-yous to anyone that can help us with this! And that's just from me!

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cenobite · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Vienna

Steam Support is in the next WineX Release.

borkdox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 123

and cvswinex too

, go to #winex in irc.freenode.net for details.

Uranus · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:07 am Post subject:

like I said, I've been trying the latest wine (cvs and releases) ASWELL as winex (binaries and cvs) for quite a while (ever since people said they got it working). No luck yet.

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

I have it installed using Wine but my problem is that when i click on cs it pops up with the other thign that gets the computer ready to play the game and you can choose Play Game or Cancel but it seems that Wine frezzes here and i cant do anythign else. I have let it sit there for quite a while and nothing.
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DopeGhoti · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject:

Well you're getting farther than I, jtp.
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DrFishstik · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:20 pm Post subject: Use the latest WineX CVS

Ive had Steam working for awile now from the WineX CVS. Give it a shot using scripts found at http://ting.homeunix.org/cvs_wine/GetWineXscripts.html
I used the Mandrake 9.1 / Redhat 9.0 PThreads script and had no troubles. Make sure you remove all exhisting versions of winex.

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

can you run wine and winex on the same machine? i dont want to have to reconfigure winex to work with photoshop and dreamweaver (when im lazy) but if its easier with winex then i will def give it a try and i want to play cs pretty bad. hehe.
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DopeGhoti · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

I don't see why wine and WineX couldn't coexist.
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remkade · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Somewhere

I have steam working with wine. I just emerged the latest one in portage: