KerbyServer

After I upgraded to Fedora 8 on one of my Linux servers, I decided to install wine and try playing some Steam games from the Orange Box I purchased a few weeks ago. It took me a hell of a lot of searching, but I finally figured out how to solve an issue where none of the Steam games would launch. Steam installed fine, but when I tried to launch a game, it displayed the normal driver out of date message, then showed a loading dialog, which disappeared and did nothing else. When running wine from the command line, I could capture the following error:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 at address 0x603dd520 (thread 005e), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 in 32-bit code (0x603dd520).

There was a bunch of other error dump lines after this, but essentially it just didn't work. After scouring the Internet for a few days, I finally came upon the following forum discussion: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4509275.html

A user named FallenWizard posted:
Deactivating Steam-Community ingame should fix it.
Start Steam, go to File/Settings, In-Game and uncheck 'Enable Steam Community in-game".

Sure enough, this did the trick! Apparently the relatively new Steam Community component causes some issues with wine. Now I have my Orange Box games running nicely under wine in Fedora 8. Yay! I wish I could say the same for wine in Mac OS X :(