[Bug 27629] Pride of Nations Demo: crashes before entering game

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27629

--- Comment #4 from Austin English  2012-07-17 12:31:02 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> This does not look like a d3dx9 wine bug. There is no wine error recorded, the
> error only shows up in the game log.
>
> If I try to run the game with wine 1.5.4 directly from the windows ntfs
> partiton it works ( albeit awfully slow), when it is run from the ext4
> partition is exits with the TParticlesDef.Fetch error

What happens if you copy the install from a windows partition to your wine
directory? And/or if you copy the install from wine to windows (backup other
installs first).

It could be a broken install..