http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13738
--- Comment #7 from DL taedium_vitae@eml.cc 2008-12-27 23:07:24 --- Okay, it turns out that my firewall was causing problems with F.E.A.R trying to access it's update servers so that was the main cause of the crashes.WIth WMFADist.exe installed and firewall brought down, the game works fine.I'm pretty sure that I had tried with my firewall disabled in the past, so maybe the ability to connect to the update servers was fixed in a later version.
Game does still crash without WMFADist.exe though, so if that is considered a bug, this should be kept open.I've attached terminal output of FEAR running without WMFADist.exe installed.