<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 22:10, Javier Kohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkohen@users.sourceforge.net">jkohen@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi, as some of you may know, there were some issues reported recently about the Steam version of this game not starting. Presumably the solution was to compile wine 1.2+ with a recent version of GCC and binutils, so that the copy protection software could hook certain functions. I've done this, and I've posted some details in the bug tracker (<a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23553" target="_blank">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23553</a>).<div>
<br></div><div>The In-game Steam Community works for me now, which reportedly is a sign that the above steps went well. However, Deus Ex: Invisible Wars still won't launch. The pop-up error window reads "Application Error: Problem starting up Steam."</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If anybody comes looking, here's what I've found out so far. In the last days I was able to launch the game a couple times, somewhat accidentally. Though most of the time it still failed to run. I found out that changing the Windows version for Ion Launcher.exe (and possibly dx2.exe and dx2main.exe) to Windows ME vastly increases the chances of the game starting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Moreover, after the latest Steam upgrade the in-game community overlay broke completely for me, even though it was working with my locally-compiled version of Wine 1.3. However, Deus Ex launches just fine both with stock Wine 1.2 and Wine 1.3.1 compiled with a GCC and binutils that support hooking functions, thus showing that you don't need the Steam in-game community to play this game, as previously thought.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One more thing, the game is not perfectly stable. In particular it crashes often (always?) for me on quick load. In this case it won't ever launch successfully again until I restart the wineserver (and therefore all Windows applications).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope it helps somebody,</div></div>