[Bug 6297] Half life 2 based games occasionally do not start due to registry in use

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6297

--- Comment #36 from Luke Bratch   2008-03-05 11:07:58 ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> Something to try would be to dumping your caches as described at
> http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches i.e. run "sync; echo 3 >
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"

I came here to report this myself but see that it's already been suggested. 
Since I use ReiserFS I cannot use the chattr trick, however running "echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" just before launching troublesome games has worked
every time so far.