http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2618
------- Additional Comments From Aric.Cyr@gmail.com 2005-28-03 19:49 ------- I was having the same problem with World of Warcraft until I came across a forum post somewhere about renicing the wine-preloader process. Making wine-preloader lowest priority (renice 19) fixed 99.9% of the stuttering for me without any side-effects I could see (both OSS-via-alsa and native ALSA wine driver)
Perhaps this bug should be called "why does wine-preloader take 100% CPU"?