Laptop overheat while gaming on Wine

[tropicalpioneer]

The laptop case becomes hot when running games in Wine.
Even if it doesn't shut down or go stand-by (and it might be a lack of settings in my Mint, I am a newbie) I am worried about possible damage.

I have found something related to heat in the Wiki, on Debugging poor graphical performance,

Cooling and power supply can be limiting. E.g. Macbooks have some really nice performance for a minute or so until thermal throttling slows everything down by 50%. In such a situation it may be beneficial to slow down the CPU in a GPU limited game to reduce the heat the CPU produces so the GPU can clock higher. Vsync is a good way to keep heat down, but it kinda requires that the game runs at >= 60 fps already. E.g. if you have a game that runs at 90 fps on a cold laptop but drops down to 45 after a while, you might be able to stay at 60 fps with vsync on. Again, very hardware and game specific. You'd hope the drivers figure these kinds of things out.

How can I check the fps rate?
And how can I regulate it?

Semi-serious question: when searching the web for Wine, how do you filter the fermented grape-juice related results?

My system information:

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Wine build: wine-6.0.1
    Platform: x86_64
    Version: Windows 7
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 5.11.0-36-generic

[invisible kid]

If you throw "linux" in with the search that seems to help:

linux wine <whatever else>