http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17901
--- Comment #4 from Michael Abbott michael@araneidae.co.uk 2009-03-31 12:36:06 --- This problem clearly has an interaction with the X server: while the game is hanging with looping sound, no other updates occur on the screen, despite the fact that I was running top in a terminal window on second display.
After killing the game (`wineserver -k` suffices) everything returns to normal. There are no extra error messages generated by wine or by steam, and no messages in any error log that I can see.
Any suggestions for anything that might create more diagnostic information would be welcome.