diff --git a/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/FunctionPointerVariableHook.cs b/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/FunctionPointerVariableHook.cs
index 3e88780eb..e75d9c180 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/FunctionPointerVariableHook.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/FunctionPointerVariableHook.cs
@@ -58,7 +58,14 @@ internal class FunctionPointerVariableHook<T> : Hook<T>
 
             unsafe
             {
-                var pfnThunkBytes = (byte*)NativeFunctions.HeapAlloc(HookManager.NoFreeExecutableHeap, 0, 12);
+                // Note: WINE seemingly tries to clean up all heap allocations on process exit.
+                // We want our allocation to be kept there forever, until no running thread remains.
+                // Therefore we're using VirtualAlloc instead of HeapCreate/HeapAlloc.
+                var pfnThunkBytes = (byte*)NativeFunctions.VirtualAlloc(
+                    0,
+                    12,
+                    NativeFunctions.AllocationType.Reserve | NativeFunctions.AllocationType.Commit,
+                    MemoryProtection.ExecuteReadWrite);
                 if (pfnThunkBytes == null)
                 {
                     throw new OutOfMemoryException("Failed to allocate memory for import hooks.");
diff --git a/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/HookManager.cs b/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/HookManager.cs
index d26bcefa0..303802ff6 100644
--- a/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/HookManager.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/Hooking/Internal/HookManager.cs
@@ -16,13 +16,6 @@ namespace Dalamud.Hooking.Internal;
 [ServiceManager.EarlyLoadedService]
 internal class HookManager : IDisposable, IServiceType
 {
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Handle to an executable heap that we shall never free anything unless we can be absolutely sure that nothing is
-    /// referencing to it anymore.
-    /// </summary>
-    internal static readonly nint NoFreeExecutableHeap =
-        NativeFunctions.HeapCreate(NativeFunctions.HeapOptions.CreateEnableExecute, 0, 0);
-
     private static readonly ModuleLog Log = new("HM");
 
     [ServiceManager.ServiceConstructor]