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Fix for Steam

Monday 18 February 2013 at 16:29



Hi everybody,

Since the latest update, it seems that Steam is broken with PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac for the most of you. Indeed, if you try to run Steam, it might try to update itself infinitely.

Hopefully, we've found a hack that can fix the problem until wine fixes it properly. We just need people to test it.

If Steam is broken with PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac, please follow the following steps

- Close Steam (Tools -> Close all PlayOnMac programs to be sure)
- Open PlayOnLinux / PlayOnMac install menu
- Click on Refresh
- Open PlayOnLinux / PlayOnMac configure menu
- Chose the game using steam (or steam) at the left of the window
- Go to Install Components tab (Or install package)
- Choose "HackSteam"

Then, tell us here if it works or not for you

Thank you

Tinou

Comments

Author Replies
unreal123 Monday 18 February 2013 at 17:59

Rank: Member

 Its working so far. The only problem I have encountered was random crashes while trying to install dota 2 again, but so far so good.

Thanks,
Apollo
lahtis Monday 18 February 2013 at 19:14

Rank: Member

 in steam update playonlinux crash and say.
error in main

but when click next button Steam launch a normal and works.
Tiberius Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 17:58

Rank: Member

 If I try to start Steam, it tries to start but fails. "Error in main" it says. Steam does not start.
Quentin PÂRIS Wednesday 20 February 2013 at 0:38

Rank: Admin

Admin

 Reinstall Steam, run it, close it and re apply the fix
Tiberius Thursday 21 February 2013 at 14:28

Rank: Member

 Thank you for the quick answer.
I did as you said, sadly it's still not working.
I just get a long debug log file, but since I'm very new on Linux, I'm not able to get any useful informations from the file.
Balory Friday 22 February 2013 at 5:42

Rank: Guest

 Do all the above mentioned procedure and install microsoft core fonts. Should help.
Tiberius Tuesday 26 February 2013 at 16:27

Rank: Member

 Thank you all, it finally works!
I think 2 things I did made it finally work:
First of all, I had to select configure -> Wine Version -> System
before doing the SteamHack. Since then I had selected Wine Versin 1.5.10. Perhaps for some reason the Hack didn't work then.
Secondly, on my Ubuntu System, there is already microsoft core fonts installed. But now I know that Balory did mean the microsoft core fonts in the PlayOnLinux Install Components.
Now steam works, thank you all :-)
Ntalton Saturday 2 March 2013 at 23:33

Rank: Guest

 I thought I was the only one...
Well I bypassed the problem some other way. I installed steam on a windows VM, took the files from /Program Files/Steam and transfered them in the directory I installed steam on linux previously. Kind of anorthodox, oh well...
Booman Thursday 7 March 2013 at 19:42

Rank: Guest

 Do any of you have problems with missing fonts in Steam?

The only version of Wine that works for me is 1.4 when Installing Steam and the Tahoma package.

I have tried many other Wine versions from the General Tab and even reboot windows, but the fonts are still missing.

I have even done some research on WineHQ but without compiling my own patch into Wine.... I don't have a fix.
Gunman1982 Friday 8 March 2013 at 17:13

Rank: Member

Quote:

I have tried many other Wine versions from the General Tab and even reboot windows, but the fonts are still missing.


Are you using -no-dwrite as a parameter? I had problems when I lacked that option and GLSL wasn't turned off.
DoktorenDeres Wednesday 13 March 2013 at 2:07

Rank: Guest

 Wohoo, it actually got steam up and running! (though it did still say the update failed...)
Thanks ^^
booman Wednesday 13 March 2013 at 23:50

Rank: Member

Quote:

Are you using -no-dwrite as a parameter? I had problems when I lacked that option and GLSL wasn't turned off.

I read about that on WineHQ but too many people claimed that -no-dwrite didn't fix the problem.

How do I execute that command when I'm in PlayOnLinux using different versions of Wine?
seregon Sunday 24 March 2013 at 18:10

Rank: Guest

 This worked perfectly for me using Arch Linux, tested 2013-03-24. 64-bit with multilib, stock lts kernel, catalyst drivers, fully up to date. No reinstall of steam required. Thanks

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