Let's fix Steam!

[Tim Schmidt]

Hey guys, sorry to intrude, but I've been out of the Windows gaming
scene for longer than I can remember.  I own copies of Half-life and a
few other games, but am I to understand that they can be played (for
free?) through steam?  I see that you can purchase a few games through
steam as well ( I remember hearing about it some time ago...  most of
the work done on it was done by the bittorrent guy right?).

--tim


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:08:13 +0100, Stefan Dösinger
<stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 13. März 2005 11:13 schrieb Scott Ritchie:
> > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:47 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > > > Did you try the latest version?  Did you install IE with Winetools?  I
> > > > still can't get past my "no text visible" error that I linked to with a
> > > > screenshot earlier.
> > >
> > > I use Wine CVS from yesterday, steam updates itself automatically. I
> > > installed MSIE manually into a fresh wine installation.
> > >
> > > I can see all the text in steam(at least I don't miss anything). I can
> > > send you my config files, etc if you need it.
> > >
> > > My DLLoverrides:
> > >
> > > General:
> > >
> > >     "advapi32"      = "builtin"
> > >     "shdocvw"       = "native, builtin"
> > >
> > >     "msvcrt"        = "native, builtin"
> > >     "advapi"        = "builtin"
> > >     "urlmon"        = "native, builtin"
> > >     "advpack"       = "native, builtin"
> > >     "shlwapi"       = "native, builtin"     ;shlwapi.dll.GetLongPathNameWrapA
> > >     "wininet"       = "native, builtin"
> > >
> > > Steam Appdefault:
> > >                     "mshtml" = "native, builtin" ;could crash steam
> > >                     "crypt32" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "shlwapi" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "shdocvw" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "shfolder" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "shell" = "builtin, native"
> > >                     "wininet" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "urlmon" = "native, builtin"
> > >                     "wininet"       = "native, builtin"
> > >
> > > I have to run Steam in a Desktop window, otherwise I can't type anything.
> > >
> > > Stefan
> >
> > Hmm, I think I will need your config files, I've been playing around
> > with this for hours and can't quite get it.
> >
> > Maybe it's something stupid I did like forget to include something at
> > compile time (I have all the build depends, I think, unless a new one
> > got added recently.)
> 
> Config file and system.reg is attached. I didn't do anything special when
> installing wine. Do you have the needed fonts? I copied C:\windows\fonts from
> a Windows XP system some time ago and I have all the font's in my X
> installation.
> 
> Can you send me the screenshot again? I've lost the mail in which you sent it.
> As far as I can remember it occured during account creation, right? I created
> my account some time ago. I just clicked on the "new account button" and I
> see 9 lines of text and only a few pixels of the 10th line. Strange...
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
>