https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40507
Bug ID: 40507 Summary: Company of Heroes freezes when notification tries to get focus Product: Wine Version: 1.9.8 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: gQuigs@gMail.com Distribution: ---
Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup calendar event in Google Calendar to alert you in 5 minutes. 2. Start a CoH Skirmish game (through steam). 3. Will freeze when alert goes off.
This can also be recreated by being IMed via Steam/Pidgin, but that requires another party. Alt-tabbing out of the game also freezes it, might be related. It seems you don't actually need to be in a game for the bug to happen. The initial menu is fine.
I haven't been able to get any useful logs of the event.
Workaround I use: Close everything else, and open Steam conversation windows to anyone who might start a conversation with me. Disable Steam overlay.
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with Wine that I just build in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~bryanquigley/+archive/ubuntu/wine The first time I tried this game in wine on version 1.7.46, the alt-tab issue was present.