Phoronix: Wine 1.1.24 Released With New Improvements
A new development release of Wine is now available with a few prominent additions. Wine 1.1.24 introduces support for FreeDesktop.org file associations, support for 64-bit exception handling, improved ARB shaders, fixes for the FBO mode, and many ListView improvements...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzMzNw
What games are those? And what graphics drivers are you using?
I haven't noticed much leaking with the games I play. Although I've suspected some leaks playing World of Warcraft, I'm never really sure if it's WoW or Wine. My other games don't seem to leak much but I never find myself checking my system's memory unless playing WoW.
How's ATI support coming along?
Going by that list of games, you're probably suffering from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13335 (but you know that, you posted there). That bug is pretty hard to fix properly, but it's certainly a priority.
Improving, Catalyst 9.6 seems to work quite a bit better for most people. On our side, we currently avoid the bug where attaching certain texture formats to an FBO crashes fglrx.
The ARB shader improvements are mainly useful for platforms with broken GLSL support, like OS X. It's unlikely we'll switch the default from GLSL on Linux.