There are a lot of tips at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19444 Have you gone through that list yet? In particular: Does renaming or disabling gameoverlayrenderer.dll help? http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24064 Does echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope help? http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30410