http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14438
--- Comment #7 from David Hall (gringer) winehq@gringer.dis.org.nz 2008-08-21 10:19:18 --- Of course, <a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/ReverseRegressionTesting">reverse regression testing</a> (and all the pain that involves). I'll have a go at that.
For anyone else who has a computer that is too fast to observe this bug, you may be able to get away with throttling the CPU. On my laptop (Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66GHz), I can do this by running the following:
# x=3; echo ${x} > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling; echo ${x} > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/throttling
[You can reset the throttling by setting x=0 instead of x=3]
According to 'cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling', that command should throttle the processors to 62% of their normal speed (YMMV), which seems to be enough to result in noticeable slowdowns when moving the mouse while playing the game.