http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12964
--- Comment #120 from Brian bkohler36@gmail.com --- Upon reading comment #119 I decided to give the game a try under the nouveau Nvidia drivers. Just like in his case I was able to get past the usual crash point and select a ship and block, I also tested creating a party and playing for some minutes, everything worked flawlessly. Also of note is that the japanese text describing the current active method for inputting text I mentioned on my comment in bug #27293, which isn't usually displayed when running under WINE, did show up this time. However, it may be that not everything is solved. Whenever I try to quit the game through it's menus either I get a page fault or the program just hangs.
One thing I tested after I made my last comment is that if I repeat exactly the same actions when testing the game, it crashes exactly on the 331st call to the d3d8_texture_2d_UnlockRect function. Maybe that can be of use if someone else wants do debug a bit.