hi I just want to add my frustration onto this thread about steam game on wine. I'm trying to load empire total war and Napoleon total war. For both game, I goto the copyright page and it freezes. I ran the game in terminal and the last output are: Code: Opening database: Done uniform_to_faction_colours_table (28ms delta, 10720ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:0) Done BATTLE_ENTITY_MAN_ANIMATION_TABLES fixup sound triggers Opening database: Done FINISHED opening database (854ms delta, 11574ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:0) Opening database: Top 10 took 9758 ms (84.3%) 0: battle_entity_man_animation_tables, 4511 ms (39.0%) 1: battlefield_buildings_table, 2105 ms (18.2%) 2: FINISHED opening database, 854 ms (7.4%) 3: battle_entity_animation_table_manager, 595 ms (5.1%) 4: battle_entity_horse_animation_tables, 558 ms (4.8%) 5: factions_table, 295 ms (2.5%) 6: names_table, 279 ms (2.4%) 7: battle_entity_elephant_animation_tables, 194 ms (1.7%) 8: Opened stringtable, 192 ms (1.7%) 9: message_event_strings_table, 175 ms (1.5%) Done Loading database Done Loading advisor Done Loading shortcuts POST_DB_APP_INIT: section timings initialised Done Creating Multiplayer Done Creating Debug Menu Manager POST_DB_APP_INIT: Done Finished WarScape init (662ms delta, 662ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:0) Done Creating Debug rendering wine: Unhandled stack overflow at address 0xb647a0c (thread 000d), starting debugger... err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 844 bytes in thread 000d eip 6c23bf50 esp 14f60fe4 stack 0x14f60000-0x14f61000-0x15060000 err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bca4b40 "rtl.c: peb_lock" wait timed out in thread 003d, blocked by 000d, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bca4b40 "rtl.c: peb_lock" wait timed out in thread 003d, blocked by 000d, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bca4b40 "rtl.c: peb_lock" wait timed out in thread 003d, blocked by 000d, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bca4b40 "rtl.c: peb_lock" wait timed out in thread 003d, blocked by 000d, retrying (60 sec) I agree with others in the above posts that this may be a steam update problem, but since other window-users aren't having the same problem and since steam and linux system don't go together officially, I don't think steam support will give much help and the only help probably will come from this forum. So with this in mind, I really hope someone can help me. Thanks