First, sorry for cross-posting -- the Co8 forum previous post was in Aug 2017 so i was giving up on it! If I get a solution there I will post here too.

I have ToEE installed under Linux. It runs beautifully except that all four cores on my i5 laptop jump to 75% and then it shuts down after overheating. I've solved the same problem for Icewind Dale 2 by adapting a script that binds the process to one core and leaves the others idle (uses 'taskset').

I've tested doing the same thing on the TFE-X interface, and it doesn't seem to affect the game that it launches (problem remains). Having activated Co8 with new content I don't need the options that TFE-X offers anymore.

Can I solve my problem by running the script on an exe on the virtual drive? I can see both "toee.exe" and "ToEEa.exe". Or is it not that simple?

You can simply launch it with `wine toee.exe` (plus any other modifications you mention).

You should really fix your unstable hardware though. :)

I've set up a script to limit all my CPUs to 1.8GHz using the commend-line utility cpufreq. This keeps it from reaching the 3.1GHz max, and seems to be the solution. See https://superuser.com/questions/1170519/limiting-cpu-usage-uniformly/1170527#1170527

I have another script to remove the limit afterwards. Clunky but effective.

I'm looking to buy a new laptop in the next year or so. Lower power consumption and better heat dissipation are high on my list! The current laptop runs a single VM or lots of tabs in Chrome as well as non-game wine apps without a problem so I wouldn't call it unstable..

you mast find the ToEE.exe in pckg contents, then run this file through wine and it works