http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11091
--- Comment #13 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2008-06-16 00:52:01 --- (In reply to comment #12)
I am 100% sure that exiting steam causes the problem to go away -- in fact I never see it completely go away until I have culled all related wine processes as well.
Can you repeat that again? Are you saying that exiting all windows programs (which exits Wine) _fixes_ the problem?