wine users - Sep 2010 - Help debugging lockup when running wine

Hey all,
     I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.1.42 (distributed through the
Ubuntu package manager), and I'm getting complete lockups when running
SimCity 4. This also happened before when running WoW, but I switched games so
did not completely debug that one.

So anyway, basically after playing for 20-60 minutes I get complete lockups,
only thing that happens is blinking caps lock light. I guess this is not
supposed to happen with Wine but it only occurs under wine so I figure this is
the right place to start. Some system data:


Code:
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l





Code:
$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev
a2)





Code:
$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  256.44  Thu Jul 29 01:30:36 PDT
2010
GCC version:  gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 





Code:
WINEDEBUG=+reg wine Apps/SimCity\ 4.exe 2>errror.log



And the output was very uninteresting...last few lines were all like


Code:

fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_Restore (0x1c07d8):stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_Restore (0x1c07d8):stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub




Seems unrelated to me. Love some advice on this, even if it's things to
eliminate.

Thanks!

Complete lockups, you mean even CTL ALT F1 doesn't get you
a text console?  If so, either you've hit a graphics driver
bug, or there's something wrong with your system...