http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33216
--- Comment #7 from Erich Hoover erich.e.hoover@gmail.com --- (In reply to Erich Hoover from comment #6)
I don't have "Old World Blues", but this spurred me to take a look at Bug 31566 again. The symptoms are a little different, but maybe attachment 49035 [details] is worth a try for this as well.
My automated build for last night for Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 has this change included (plus a few other possible race conditions): https://launchpad.net/~pipelight/+archive/ubuntu/daily/+packages
If you'd like to test and see if the fix for Bug 31566 also fixes this problem then you can install the package with: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine-compholio
This will install the patched Wine in a separate location from your main system Wine, so to run with the patched version you'll want to launch Steam like so: /opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
Note: If you're using pipelight (and the "stable" repo at ppa:pipelight/stable) then you'll need to explicitly install the nightly build or wait until tomorrow, as I forgot to up the primary version number (whoops!).