http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21215
--- Comment #8 from Lorenzo Miniero lminiero@gmail.com 2010-01-01 15:28:17 --- I'm no(In reply to comment #6)
You using 64-bit Wine. It doesn't work quite well ATM. You should be using 32-bit Wine
Remove all wine*_64 packages, remove ~/.wine directory and reinstall your program.
Closing invalid - this configuration known not to work.
I should have been more accurate: I'm using a 64bit distro, but I'm *not* using 64bit wine. I've been using wine for years and on tons of games in the past, and I've always used its i686 packages. Have you at least tried to install the demo?