writes_on wrote: > Steam runs, but it runs incredibly slowly, and causes the rest of the computer to also run very slowly. Yes, some steam pages do run slow. They doing things that are not well optimized on wine. writes_on wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions or pointers about what's going on and if there is anything I can do about it? Start steam in minimized mode "wine steam -silent". Or start game with "wine steam -applaunch <game-id>".