http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19861
James Huk Huk@wine.x.pl changed:
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--- Comment #12 from James Huk Huk@wine.x.pl 2010-03-01 04:16:28 --- This "bug" is related to max opened file limit in some distributions, it also affects "Sonic Riders" (probably some other games as well - we just don't know about them). This bug is distro-dependend because on some distributions (Debian for example) max opened file limit is quite small, while on others it is larger. To fix this you need to increase max opened file limit. For Debian - simply put something like this in /etc/security/limits.conf:
USERNAME hard nofile 655355
(of course, change USERNAME to your user name ;] )
and re-log - this should allow you to play this game just fine.