[Wine] Half-Life 2 crashing with Wine 1.1.43 on Ubuntu 10.4

[Edward Savage]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Bright-Warrior
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> As the title says, I try to play Half-Life 2 with Wine, which is listed as platinum in the Appdb, so I expected no problems. But unfortunately, the game is crashing when I want to start a new game. I see the loading bar filling, but when it's almost done, the game crashes. Here is the console output, as far as I could reach it:
>

Try, in Steam, right clicking on Half Life 2 and going to properties
and launch options.  Add the option -nosound and then see if you can
reproduce the crash.  If this does cause the crash to go away it
sounds bug 13251 which has a workaround.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13251