vitamin wrote: > > javagamer wrote: > > > > oiaohm wrote: > > > javagamer I guess old wineprefix from prior versions of wine. > > > > > > Please try a clean wineprefix. If you don't understand what a wineprefix is man wine. > > > > I think I understand what you mean, that I'm using an old .wine file. I've tried removing my .wine file then reinstalling wine several times, I get this error either way. > > Your system is screwed up. > Remove Wine completely. Make sure that there is NO Wine files anywhere! You can look for any wine* *dll* files and remove them. > Make sure you graphics works - glxgears, glxinfo. > Install Wine from repository. Make sure that 'winecfg', 'notepad' work. > Install steam following howto on appdb. > Install your game. It seems most of my problems were fixed by a new nVidia graphics driver that was released this morning. Steam seemed to work, games would download, but they claimed I had an old version of DirectX. After cleansing wine and reinstalling suddenly everything worked. Thanks to everyone for your help.