I got the same error trying to run Counter Strike Source. After some looking, I found this: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wine/110288-wine-activex-component-registering-error-error-429-a.html In short, when I ran the following in the terminal, my problem was fixed. :) wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks vcrun6 wsh56