http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18668
--- Comment #3 from unimatrix andrejx@gmail.com 2009-05-29 06:19:19 --- (In reply to comment #2)
Then try 'wine messenger.exe &> /dev/null' and see if it improves greatly.
The DIB engine in bug 421 may help.
Forwarding the output to /dev/null makes no difference.