wine users - Nov 2009 - Wine freezes at game startup

Hi

I have an Acer Aspire 5735Z with Fedora11. I want to play some games and so i
tried to start Torchlight. When I start it the whole system freezes and only
reboot helps. I can't even move the mouse.
So I tried Steam. It worked perfectly and I was ably to Download Games. The I
tried to start Team Fortress 2. It also freezed but I was able to move the
mouse. So I wonder if there is any possibility to see what goes wrong. Even when
I start with a terminal I can see no Error popping up.

Thank you so far
floxyz

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, floxyz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an Acer Aspire 5735Z with Fedora11. I want to play some games and so
i tried to start Torchlight. When I start it the whole system freezes and only
reboot helps. I can't even move the mouse.
> So I tried Steam. It worked perfectly and I was ably to Download Games. The
I tried to start Team Fortress 2. It also freezed but I was able to move the
mouse. So I wonder if there is any possibility to see what goes wrong. Even when
I start with a terminal I can see no Error popping up.
>
Freezing is usually a hardware or driver problem. Wine does not have
direct access to hardware so this generally means it does not have the
ability to lock up a machine.

John

Other games, especially the native  version of World of Goo, don't make any
problems and run perfectly. Is there any safe mode in wine or a log where I can
see what happens?