Steam + Counterstrike Condition Zero Issue

[iopi]

I'm having an issue with Steam. When I run Steam through wine, it comes up and checks for updates then the login screen just turns black

http://i11.tinypic.com/6416ffd.png

The stuff I've found on google on this talks about the actual game going black so I've had no luck there. I'm at a loss o_o. It worked for one go, and then just stopped working

Wine: 0.9.41 (tried with 0.9.40 too)
NVIDIA Drivers: 1.0.9755-r1



I'm guessing the crackling sound in CS:CZ is a known issue and has no fix for it right now (=. I need to research that more .

[killertux]

"Black screen" issue could be "problem with nvidia driver"... some device nodes missing in /dev/nvidia*
if it's so you could set

RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes"
in /etc/conf.d/rc
or make missing nodes manually/script it's those are not there.

sound problem could be one or both of next:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361

Sure there is several "fixes" for the sound issue but I fee that it's unsecure dirty hack that I do not feel good solution... one of those fixes patch the kernel
and other patch the Wine... but if it's the 1631 then it's threat priority issue where dsound do not get enought CPU. Bug happens in nearly all dsound games
there is but bit differently depending CPU demands of the game and the CPU used... faster CPU might help also settings sounds to "emulation" in winecfg
helps in some cases.

[iopi]

unfortunately the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" did not work.

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ls /dev/nvi*
/dev/nvidia0  /dev/nvidiactl

I dont think I'm missing any because

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glxgears
84578 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16915.540 FPS
89599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 17871.315 FPS
90415 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18080.389 FPS

[killertux]

Some nvidia device nodes are missing this is long known issue... I just do not know why it even happens.

The nvidia devices you "should" have.

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tux@killertux /dev $ ls /dev/nvi*
/dev/nvidia0  /dev/nvidia2  /dev/nvidia4  /dev/nvidia6  /dev/nvidiactl
/dev/nvidia1  /dev/nvidia3  /dev/nvidia5  /dev/nvidia7

SOLUTION:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41 ... s+tmp.html

[PaulBredbury]

Some nvidia device nodes are missing

Are you using a horrendously old video card? That problem existed temporarily, and was fixed, almost 2 years ago. See bugzilla, especially comment 3 and comment 8.

With a blazingly fast nvidia 8800gts I have:

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ll /dev/nvidia*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   0 2007-07-20 13:47 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 2007-07-20 13:47 /dev/nvidiactl

[killertux]

Some nvidia device nodes are missing

Are you using a horrendously old video card? That problem existed temporarily, and was fixed, almost 2 years ago. See bugzilla, especially comment 3 and comment 8.

With a blazingly fast nvidia 8800gts I have:

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ll /dev/nvidia*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   0 2007-07-20 13:47 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 2007-07-20 13:47 /dev/nvidiactl

I have nVidia GeForce 6600 GT

If I only have those two nvidia device nodes it causes some unstability here... I realy do not know why.
but with those "extra" nodes it's lot more stable.

[iopi]

I followed the instructions on the NVmakedevices script and gave it a shot, but still the same problem =(.

[Tonglebeak]

I use a 6600GT

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localhost aaron # ls /dev/nvi*
/dev/nvidia0  /dev/nvidiactl

And I have no stability issues at all.

[killertux]

I use a 6600GT

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localhost aaron # ls /dev/nvi*
/dev/nvidia0  /dev/nvidiactl

And I have no stability issues at all.

I made some test here to see if still freezes and seemed like it's stable here too.

[iopi]

just checking if I am understanding right, you did some tests to see if removing those extra devices keeps your system stable, not steam right?


i've tried to reinstall steam w/ no luck


I've also tried running steam with

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WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine Steam

same result other then not showing that iswow64