I had Steam/TF2 working. Using Suse 11.1 64-bit, Nvidia card/driver, 4Gb RAM, 2.6 Intel Quad CPU. ALSA sound (pulse audio uninstalled), Windows Vista, full settings in winecfg. My TF2 crashed and when I started Steam again, the Steam update downloaded and installed. Then Steam wouldn't start any more. I tried a new .wine dir. Followed instructions for removing/reinstalling Steam. Nada. So I got patient and awaited some Wine updates. I had wine 1.1.16 at the time and now even with 1.1.18, Steam will still not load. Here is what I get: aaron@destro:~> wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub CellID: CSDS returned 159 servers. CellID: Connecting to 193.34.51.3:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 193.34.51.3:27031 took 150 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 16 MS err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xc26fd4 "?" wait timed out in thread 0023, blocked by0024, retrying (60 sec) Deleting active MRSW lock (0x115204), expect failure aaron@destro:~> I'm completely lost. Anyone have any ideas. I posted in the Steam forums in the AppDB and had a few who experienced similar problems. Anyone know of a fix. I searched and have come up empty. Any help or a general direction as to the nature of the problem would be greatly appreciated. Aaron