http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131
------- Additional Comments From magnus@hacka.net 2006-07-01 11:17 ------- I just upgraded to Wine 0.9.5. The freezes now comes more regulary. Before with 0.9.3 it could take up to one minute before I would experience the freezes, but now it comes just directly after startup of the game.
I guess the best clue is "#7 From Vitaliy Margolen", that the bug does not appear in off-line mode. I have opened trouble ticket 060107-000197 with Valve about what was done in the update when this bug appeared, and asked them for assistence. We'll see where that leads.
I will report back as soon as I get any info from Valve.