https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37468
--- Comment #1 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- (In reply to triangle400 from comment #0)
I may get a short "patcher update" which works fine but as soon as it would launch the actual patcher, the keyboard freezes. The mouse still moves around but mostly doesn't mouseover anything anymore or click anything. The power supply fan runs like crazy until I force close the machine.
That's likely a kernel/driver bug.
I would try to get a terminal output but i don't know how to pipe it directly to file. "wine file.exe > log.txt" gets me an empty file. Maybe because it crashes? I'm a bit green about linux but i'm willing to learn.
will only capture stdout, not stderr. Assuming you're on bash, try:
wine file.exe &>> log.txt
you should also check dmesg and Xorg.0.log, they'll likely have some more info.