http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971
Summary: Mouse "escapes" game window Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: PC URL: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=241 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-x11driver AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: vitaliy@kievinfo.com
In the menu and game itself Wine allows mouse to "escape" the game window. In turn Wine looses track of the mouse and character freezes in the game. Forcing game to reinitialize by changing screen resolution or toggling windowed/full-screen mode "cures" the problem.
This happens because game attempts to set exclusive coop mode but fails (bug 6960). And instead ending up using background cooperative mode with dinput, which should not touch position of existing mouse pointer. However Wine has no means of tracking mouse if it leaves Wine windows.