http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23135
--- Comment #19 from Daniel Harvison sirbubbles01@yahoo.com.au 2010-07-18 09:37:25 --- (In reply to comment #18)
The downloadable beta, http://masseffect.bioware.com/cdn/A/ME2_DEMO/MassEffect2DemoEN.exe doesn't seem to suffer from this problem here. (Maybe it has an updated bink dll?)
Well the whole bink dll thing would work in with what I saw when I disabled bink videos in the game via a switch or ini file edit, or something. The game would work pretty much perfectly with no hassles, which I really don't understand. Shouldn't have to disable cpu cores for an issue like this, but it's there in the windows world too, from what I understand.
For me, this issue would strike when loading many levels, after most bink videos, and after more than a few minutes of playtime. Obviously the game wasn't quite as immersive with no bink videos though.