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Steam Unbroken on Cedega

Posted by Zonk on from the patching-the-patch dept.

Bishop, Martin writes "Steam's latest client update on the 14th of December broke support under Transgaming's Cedega software, however, as stated on the transgaming forums the latest 4.2 build of cedega includes a fix for Steam."

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  1. Broken by Design by 10537 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Steam's latest client update on the 14th of December broke support under Transgaming's Cedega software, however, as stated on the transgaming forums the latest 4.2 build of cedega includes a fix for Steam."
    Any chance of them fixing it for Windows users too?

    Sarcasm and anti-Steam sentiment aside, does anyone have any insight in to whether this was a deliberate breaking or just a random side-effect?

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    1. Re:Broken by Design by satoshi1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I was just about to ask the same thing. Did Valve intentionally break Steam under Cedega? If so, why?? Wouldn't they like to have MORE users? Not shut them out by forcing them to buy/pirate Windows?

    2. Re:Broken by Design by Richard_at_work · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Its more likely that the Valve update included a binary update that conflicted with Cedega/Wines Win32 implementation, which is more likely than a conspiracy about deliberate breakages. Remember here folks, Cedega/Wine is a reimplementation without all the documentation, I wouldnt be surprised if this happens a lot but doesnt get reported on slashdot because theres no obvious target.

  2. Re:I'm a troll by Senjutsu · · Score: 2, Informative

    So right click on HL2 in the games list, go into Properties..., and Change the setting to "Do not automatically update this game".