wine users - Mar 2009 - Minor system hang when any games are running under wine.

When I run any game under Wine, whether it's Morrowind, Dwarf Fortress or
EVE, I get a totaly system hang periodically.  With MW and DF it happens about
once every 5-10 minutes, and with EVE I only have about 5 seconds of usability
between hangs, so that's almost totally unusable.

What happens:  I'll be playing MW, or have it running on a different desktop
while I use Opera.  System input will hang for a second, while audio keeps
running.  After about two to seven seconds, the audio will stop as well.  About
15 to 20 seconds of hang will follow, sometimes accompanied by the audio
"blipping" once or twice.  Then the system will become responsive
again, and the windows applications will redraw their interfaces and start
working as well.

While annoying, it's really not that bad, and beyond this bug MW and DF run
almost flawlessly.  However, as mentiond above, it makes EVE totally unplayable;
I haven't even gotten past login.  The fact that this happens while Dwarf
Fortress, a 2D app, is running makes me think I must have things misconfigured,
however the fact that it happens with greater frequency in EVE points to
performance issues.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

GeForce 6200
P4 2.8 GHz
2GB RAM
Wine --version: wine-1.1.15-221-g79cc416
Linux Mint 5 - Elyssa - Fluxbox CE
Kernel 2.6.24-23