http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19159
--- Comment #13 from Bad Andy afreyed@hotmail.com 2010-03-16 06:01:53 --- So it was working for a few days after I installed d3dx9_36.dll but now it's back to crashing at the splash screen. I have no idea what changed, all I did was put my PC in a new case and add a 2nd HD.
Worse yet when i run the game in terminal all I get is 2 lines of output, then it truly seems to hang and I have to close the terminal window to stop the process.