http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14885
--- Comment #3 from john.moonsugar john.moonsugar@gmail.com 2008-08-17 12:55:02 ---
So if you downgrade to Wine 0.9.59, the problem goes away?
So far, after about 5 hours of testing, the answer appears to be "yes". I've experienced neither the input stealing or the system freeze.
I did have difficulties figuring out how to "downgrade" (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=2057), (as an aside, it really would help if the regression test page included an initial step "Here's how to check out a specific version of Wine so you can verify that when you do 'git bisect good', you are starting at the right place").
Anyway, I verified that the version I built really is 0.9.59, because in that version of Wine some of the in-game features like the "local map" did not work, but did start to work in later versions. So hopefully, I have not made a mistake in building the wrong version of Wine to test.
Now I'll go and do the regression test procedure, and come back to report the result.