[Wine] Steam can not be launched

[James McKenzie]

On 1/14/11 1:05 AM, shogun1234 wrote:
> I follow the instruction at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19444 to install wine in order to play Steam. However `wine Steam.exe` throws
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> Then I search forum which comes up with this thread - http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9410, which seems has problem similar to mine, suggesting http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24096#c5 would solve the issue by rename GameOverlayRender.dll. However, after renaming the file, the Steam still fail to launch. I can only type id/ password and see it trying connecting, then fail.
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> What might be the root cause (how to fix this problem)? Or is this issue still can not be solved at the moment?
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> My environment: Debian squeeze, wine 1.3.0. nvidia driver 256.53 (nvidia gt 250s).
I'm not going to assume that is a typo and advise to update to Wine 
1.3.11 and then try again.

James McKenzie