https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37416
--- Comment #2 from wine@zootal.com wine@zootal.com --- It's been over two years since I posted this bug. It stopped happening for a long time, and I believe it was fixed in Wine 1.8.x, most likely as a side effect of something else being fixed.
I got it to do it just once, and once only, in the last year, and I've used just about version of wine since 1.7.x, currently I'm on 2.0-rc3 I think.
TBH it's very possible this is a problem with Sims, not Wine. I'm not sure if there is any value in keeping this bug report open because it hardly happens anymore, and I can no longer reproduce it on a regular basis. Even if you owned the game, you could play for hours and hours and never have it happen. If no one objects, I vote we close this as either fixed or not reproducible.