New Machine, Wine/Cedega + HL2 = No Go past steam

[NagaDrag]

<Copied from my Transgaming.org/forums post>

Trying out Half Life 2 on the new machine, I can get STEAM to start up, and go as far as starting the game, but once the little dialogue with "launching <game>" disappears, nothing happens.

CPU is not used, Memory is not used, and I can repeat the action of starting the same game over and over without any errors (in this case HL2/Ep1/Ep2/Portal)

I get the same problem with wine and cedega 6.0.5, and haven't been able to get around it.

What I have tried:
Different Cedega and Wine settings (With and Without GLSL) (all the way down from the latest version of cedega, till about 4.2)
Using taskset -c 1 (as the machine is has a dual core processor)
Starting the game directly (still logging on to steam, but not to the actual GUI) [ cedega / wine steam.exe -appset 220 <other options>]

I dunno what else to do. Could it be the fact that I copied over my whole Wine directory, and Cedega Directory (.wine / .cedega) with steam in it, and it's not digesting it?

PS: Although the system uses 64bit processors, it is running in a 32bit environment
PSS: Not sure if this is relavent, but the machine is connected to a flatscreen HDTV (which runs at resolution 1280x768), and I've gotten all the resolutions in Xorg writted from 1280x768 to 1024x768 and lower


PC Specs: <taken from Cedega GUI>

cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
cpu_ghz: 2.7
memory: 1008
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_type: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
videocard_ram: 512
agp_aperture_size: 512
videocard_driver_version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.12
soundcard: HDA NVidia at 0xdbef8000 irq 1
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.16
machine_bitness: 32
kernel: 2.6.24-tuxonice-r4
x_version:
distro: Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0
GUI version: 6.0.2

[bunder]

wouldn't hurt to try rm'ing .wine / .cedega and reinstalling steam using a downloaded steaminstall.msi

cheers