-error wrote: > now i'm trying to do some regression tests. for now i've went back up to wine-1.1.27, but still no luck. CS still doesn't launch with same symptoms. > > PS. am i right doing right by reverting wine source tree with `git checkout wine-1.1.27' and then performing usual build cycle (./confiure; make depend; make) ? Yes that's right, but if you have ie6 or other stuff installed then it might not be accurate. You should test with a clean prefix. I can't remember, does cs 1.6 have a html motd? 80f02b82d68902f32578a7bcf6cfbaa715b724ce introduced a crashing bug in source games with html motd You could try doing a git revert 80f02b82d68902f32578a7bcf6cfbaa715b724ce