http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787
--- Comment #172 from Jan Hurst jan@janhurst.com 2008-03-28 21:15:46 --- I too am still regularly experience the chat problem. I often only see messages from the host, and maybe 1 or 2 other players. (This is usually DOTA custom games)
I very occasionally get unexplainable disconnections. My network connection is reliable but I can't discount something actually breaking in the network connection rather than in wine.
I still very regularly get hangs when connection to a custom game. This seems related to either network congestion on the host end or port forwarding problems on the host end. The game just sits hung and never recovers and the darkened screen before you would enter the game setup screen. This happens far far more frequently than under windows, however it does happen in windows from time to time. Having said that windows very often recovers from this whereas wine/linux rarely does.