http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24006
--- Comment #2 from Michael Curran curran.michaelp@gmail.com 2012-01-15 16:20:12 CST --- It is still present, though less frequent. I can now get start a new game and everything, though it is barely playable due to significant slowdown and a missing mouse cursor.
I suspect that the source of the slowdown is related to the source of the crash, as when I upgraded my system the game became both less unplayable and less likely to crash in the same stroke.