http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17836
--- Comment #5 from Jörg Höhle hoehle@users.sourceforge.net 2009-03-26 12:19:58 --- Well, it looks like Motocross Madness and The Alien Nations / Die Völker crash because they don't get along with all the FIXME and E_NOTIMPLEMENTED in amstream.
E.g., unlike http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms787928(VS.85).aspx the Alien Nations likely does not check the return value of GetFormat() and presumably feeds ddraw with uninitialised dwHeight and dwWidth values.
As such, this issue may be a duplicate of bug #12851, even though the attachment there does not contain the typical fixme:amstream I've posted here. I'll investigate further.
James Hawkins would say: "Another amstream bug."
BTW, "components" can't be set to amstream. What would be a good choice?