[Wine] Steam games wont start

[James McKenzie]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:10 AM, kittens123 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have latest Wine on Ubuntu 11.10, and i want get my 3 Steam games running. The problem is that, i try to start a
> game, it says "Prepairing to start (game name)" and then it closes, game wont start. I would like to get Garry's Mod,
> Portal and Portal 2 working. I have ATI HD 4250 and i have installed drivers from Additional Drivers in Ubuntu. What i
> should do?

Consult the Applications Database for those games to see what folks
have had to do to get them running.

James