Steam in Windows 7 mode

Alex Henrie alexhenrie24 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 00:33:32 CST 2016


Hi all,

Everybody at WineConf (myself included) seemed pretty happy about the
idea to have Wine use Windows 7 mode by default. However, it looks
like Steam does not accept the -no-cef-sandbox parameter in Windows
Vista and later. This means that if we switch to Windows 7, most parts
of Steam will crash.

I see a few options:
1. Ask the Steam developers to make -no-cef-sandbox work in all
versions of Windows.
2. Tell users to switch to Windows XP mode before using Steam.
3. Commit some nasty hack to handle the syscall and continue normal processing.

This needs further discussion.

-Alex



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