wine users - Aug 2009 - Instant complete crash on laptop

I've been using Wine to run an old game (Stronghold Crusader) with no major
trouble, however twice now if I run it for a goodly time (about an hour) my
laptop suddenly switches off and will not power back on (with the power button)
until I've disconnected then re-connected the power cord. The crash is as
though the battery has run out and the laptop is doing an emergency shutdown,
but when I do re-boot both times the battery was at 100%. Having to remove the
power and plug back in again before the laptop will power back on is just weird,
I can't fathom why that would be the case, but that's what happened both
times.

I've never had this problem before with any other application, and it has
now happened twice with the same app under Wine. It must be something to do with
this. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and I'm running Ubuntu 8.10.

I'm mystified as to what could possibly be causing this. There are no error
messages to report because the crash is instant and completely fatal, and I
can't find any log files in the Stronghold .exe directory or .wine folder.

Anyone know what could be going on and how to fix it?

Bogdanovist wrote:
> twice now if I run it for a goodly time (about an hour) my laptop suddenly
switches off and will not power back on (with the power button) until I've
disconnected then re-connected the power cord. The crash is as though the
battery has run out and the laptop is doing an emergency shutdown, but when I do
re-boot both times the battery was at 100%.
You sure it's not overheating? Some laptops do have problems with proper
CPU/GPU cooling. As well as Linux having problems with buggy ACPI where fan
controls don't work at all, or work differently then they should.

In other words, instead of turning fans on acpid either doesn't know to do
that (temperature sensor gives bogus readings) or shuts fans off instead.