https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49697
--- Comment #4 from Michael McGuire spoon0042@hotmail.com --- None of that helped, I think. :) But I realized the windows version was apparently 7 despite the override I have for empires2 to 2k? Seems like a bug. Setting it globally to 2k and... holy hell it actually starts. I can track down when it was fixed later. And before you ask the Windows 2000 setting is mandatory, from reading old bug reports the safedisc stuff is really version specific.