http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15881
--- Comment #19 from Jörg Höhle hoehle@users.sourceforge.net 2010-06-04 04:11:19 --- Some admin please remove the "duplicate of bug #15000" marker. This was unfortunate because it removed attention from the present issue. We've seen the Fallout bug closed as fixed, reopened as bug #21426 and closed as fixed again. It doesn't seem any of the Fallout bug fixing has benefited Pharaoh or Cleopatra.
As of 1.2rc2, Pharaoh still exhibits the symptoms described in comment #13, comment #14 or comment #15, i.e. a black screen until pressing F6 once or twice.
In addition, Pharaoh now seems affected by bug #22948 like its predecessor, Caesar III. The symptoms are similar: during initialisation, a couple of background images used to be displayed, now the screen is black, except for the mid-screen rectangle with text. I've not tested whether the commit mentioned there causes that effect.