wine users - Oct 2010 - Sometimes Unresponsive, others just not working

Here's the deal. When I first installed wine I was able to run games like
Starcraft 2 and Guild Wars without any issue what-so-ever. I didn't even
have to configure anything. However, I since have performed an update which
required a restart, and have since not been able to run very many things.

Certain applications like game launchers (such as those for Land of Chaos Online
and Guild Wars) work perfectly, I can also run my console emulators without a
hitch.

Other times though it doesn't respond at all, I can see that it's doing
something, but then it eventually stops, giving me nothing. I checked the
running jobs, and I haven't found anything related to what I was trying to
run.

When it comes to my games though, I am unable to run them, as it gives me an
ominous message saying that there was an error and it had to close. No specific
details about the error though, just that I should look on here to see if
there's anything familiar. All I have found is that these games should be
running without a hitch.

Things I have tried:
Complete Removal and Installation of Wine
Installing DirectX (I did setup the specific libraries in the configuration)

Anyone have any advice at all as to what I am missing. How I can fix this. It
would be really nice if I could manage to get things running reliably.

Confirmation that this is "Just weird" would also be useful, at least
then I would know I'm not completely crazy.

> I since have performed an update which required a restart, and have since
not been able to run very many things.
> 
What Wine version, what distro, and what exactly was this update you performed?
Requiring a restart sounds like a kernel update: did you reinstall your graphics
drivers after that? You should.

Have you tried deleting ~/.wine and reinstalling everything? Sometimes
that's necessary after an upgrade.

adragon202 wrote:
> This just occurred to me, would it be helpful to post what I get when I try
and run something from the terminal?
Yes.

adragon202 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Oct 3, 2010 10:00 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Re: Sometimes Unresponsive, others just not working
>
>This just occurred to me, would it be helpful to post what I get when I try
and run something from the terminal?
>
Yes.  However, if the terminal output is more than one screen, capture it to a
logging file (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log) and post it to a site like
pastebin.com.  Then post only the URL to the posting here.

Thank you.

James McKenzie