Greetings,

I have been attempting to get CS:S and DOD:S running using wine for about two weeks now.

Having read through all the documentation I can find both here at LQ , LG,and WHQ as well as other sites I can not get the games to start for me.

I am not new to Slack but am new to wine. (I think 7.2 as my first version of Slack)

So far I have PokerStars working with no tweaking of wine.
Wizard101 for my grandson with a few minor tweaks to wine that I found on a ubuntu site and implemented them.

Currently my steam setup is as follows.
I d/l the steaminstall.msi from steampowered and installed it using wine into a Steam folder I created outside of the Program Files directory because I read that there might be an issue with the word "program" confusing the game.

Steam installed and works fine.

I used the Steam program to d/l CS:S

When I try and run the game either from the desktop icon or launch from the steam program it opens the dialog box "preparing to launch counter strike" then closes in about 5 seconds without any error message.

When I use the desktop icon a tab appears in the panel with a rotating hourglass.

With Steam as my launching method I get the steam logo in the tab on the panel.

I'm using KDE as my wm.
Wine version 1.1.27
In the Graphics tab I set the desktop size to 1280x1024
Direct3D Vertex shader Support is None and I unchecked allow pixel shader.
Audio tab has ALSA Driver selected
Other than those I have changed nothing from the default settings in Wine
I updated the Nvidia "driver".

I have the disks to load CS:S but can't get past the first disk install.
I have tried running the setup.exe outside the /mnt/cdrom but still had a "in use" error that I was able to umount by changing to the /mnt/cdrom directory the back to home, su to root and umount /dev/cdrom/ but can't start disk 2.

Sorry If I rambled too much I just wanted to supply as much info that I thought might help me solve this problem I am having.

TIA

best thing to do is install steam and then use steam to download and install the games...

If you read his post, you'll see that he says that he has installed steam and downloaded the games via steam.

Bogo: Have you tried running the program from the command prompt without Steam? For counter-strike at least, it would normally be located at ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/steamapps/[YOUR STEAM ID]/counter-strike\ source/hl2.exe, but in your case, whereever you installed Steam to. You may have to add the steam argument, -game cstrike, at the end.

A thousand Thank You's! I am now playing CS:S under Linux.
I did have to add the -game cstrike at the end.
There are a few minor issues with the gameplay, e.g. chat window, and I will have to add the font that steam likes but those are minor issues.

My next plan is to install DOD:S and L4D.

Again, Thank You for reading and responding "with the proper fix for my issue".