wine users - Mar 2008 - X-Windows hangs while playing Tales of Pirates

Hi all,

I have been playing the game Tales of Pirates with last patch (both 
freely downloadable from http://top1.igg.com/) for a while, and I didn't 
experience the troubles explained in AppDB. I play the game without 
sound and with minimal graphics.

The problem is that after some time playing, my X hang and I can't even 
close session with Ctrl+Alt+Tab or change it with Ctrl+Alt+F1 . It 
happens at an unknown moment, something between 1 minute and 30 minutes 
after starting the game. My only option is to start an ssh session from 
another computer and write down "killall game.exe". This command
allows
me to recover the functionality of my system and start again the game.

I have had this problem with compiled versions between 0.9.52 and 
0.9.56, and also the Debian 0.9.44 packages and the message I get on the 
console (after many fixme messages ) is always:

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x6e4181c "?" wait timed 
out in thread 0028, blocked by 0027, retrying (60 sec)

Other posts in the list made me think this could be related to the 
privative ATI driver and the kernel I am using, but I have no other 
option to use this driver if I want 3d acceleration.

?How can I know if it is related to the driver or not?
?If it is due to the driver, do I have any option to tweak something in 
my box in order to solve the problem?

My system is:
-ATI X1600 with fglrx driver version 8.452.1.
-Debian Lenny with KDE.
-Wine 0.9.56 from sources

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Marc <budalokkos at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  The problem is that after some time playing, my X hang and I can't
even
>  close session with Ctrl+Alt+Tab or change it with Ctrl+Alt+F1 . It
>  happens at an unknown moment, something between 1 minute and 30 minutes
>  after starting the game. My only option is to start an ssh session from
>  another computer and write down "killall game.exe". This command
allows
>  me to recover the functionality of my system and start again the game.
Sounds like buggy drivers. You could try the open source/vesa drivers
and see if you still have problems. Wine by definition as a user
process can't lockup the system (unless ran as root).
>  My system is:
>  -ATI X1600 with fglrx driver version 8.452.1.
>  -Debian Lenny with KDE.
>  -Wine 0.9.56 from sources
ATI is known for buggy drivers...