https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51429
--- Comment #2 from pernegger@gmail.com --- Well, the log spam alone could be considered a bug.
I highly doubt a 3900X with 32 GB RAM (not otherwise loaded) counts as slow in the context of running a visual novel. For reference, the listed minimum requirement is a Pentium 4 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM. It is of course very possible that the game is just buggy = behaves the same on Windows.
At any rate my reasoning for reporting it was that this error seems to pop up in many games, whether they actually end up deadlocking or not, but it isn't a hundred percent reproducible in most cases, and the games costs money, so any debugging needs to go through the submitter. In other words, if there is an underlying problem in WINE, this might make for a nice test case.
That said, I fully understand your side, too. I'll see if I can get it to manifest some actual symptoms on different hardware. Thanks for replying! :-)