http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9983
--- Comment #8 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2007-10-11 13:44:40 --- $ WINEDEBUG="-all" nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe
How about dropping the WINEDEBUG entirely? And dropping nice? And then using 'wine steam -applaunch 220' to start the HL2.