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Getting Steam games to work in Fedora 8 with wine v0.9.48
EPKPhoto — 19 November 2007 - 12:20am
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 Steam installed fine, but when I tried to launch a game, it displayed the normal driver out of date message, then showed a loading dialog, which disappeared and did nothing else.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